There is a higher standard of living among American laborers than in any country in the world.

There is not the slightest doubt that if labor had remained unorganized, wages would be very much lower.

I do not think trades-unionism was greatly aided by the attempt to drag all organized labor into politics.

As Boston is the commercial center of New England, your association really speaks for New England, a part of the country whose importance can be measured by the emphasis with which sectional writers and speakers sometimes attack it.

It will strain the digestion not only of myself and those who accompany me, but also of the many who extend hospitality along the way; and it will very considerably reduce the appropriation of $25,000 made by Congress for the traveling…

The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegate power of course conduces to a better understanding between them.

Well, it certainly is not going to be a pleasure trip, although I shall enjoy it.

I am very grateful for the hospitable reception which I have had on the North shore of Massachusetts.

I congratulate Boston on a union in one organization of all of her business men, for it insures a concentration of influence that must make for good.

It is quite apparent from the statements of Mr. Vreeland, who is now the head of the committee on banking and currency in the House of Representatives, and from the conversations of Mr. Aldrich, who is the chairman of the monetary…

We all need education on the subject.

This is the second week of September. We are all ending our vacations and going home.