Special Message
01/03/1909
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We know now that our rivers can and should be made to serve our people effectively in transportation.
The farmer should realize that the person who most needs consideration on the farm is his wife.
The noncompetitive examination in a case like this is not only vicious, but is in effect a fraud upon the public.
It deserves, and should have, the widest possible distribution among the people.