You give me great courage, and give me great inspiration as I look into your eyes and see that you are deliberate men, that you are intelligent men, and that you propose to exercise your suffrage in such a way as to have a government of law, a government that respects the vested rights of property, that respects the liberty of the individual, and a government that shall reflect credit on your population.
Address at Prescott, Arizona
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The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.
I earnestly hope that Congress will take immediate action in this regard, as recommended by the Secretary of War.
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So it is I am here, after having traversed I don't know how many states and visited I do not know how many cities.
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