A Truly American Sentiment Recognizes The Dignity

It Is Better To Be Defeated Standing For A High Principle Than To Run By Committing Subterfuge.

I Cannot Help But Think It Perilous To Suffer These Lands Or The Sources Of Their Irrigation To Fall Into The Hands Of Monopolies, Which By Such Means May Exercise Lordship Over The Areas Dependent On Their Treatment For Productiveness.

As We View The Achievements Of Aggregated Capital, We Discover The Existence Of Trusts, Combinations, And Monopolies, While The Citizen Is Struggling Far In The Rear Or Is Trampled To Death Beneath An Iron Heel. Corporations, Which Should Be The Carefully Restrained Creatures Of The Law And The Servants Of The People, Are Fast Becoming The People's Masters.

The Friendliness And Charity Of Our Countrymen Can Always Be Relied Upon To Relieve Their Fellow Citizens In Misfortune. This Has Been Repeatedly And Quite Lately Demonstrated. Federal Aid In Such Cases Encourages The Expectation Of Paternal Care On The Part Of The Government And Weakens The Sturdiness Of Our National Character, While It Prevents The Indulgence Among Our People Of That Kindly Sentiment And Conduct Which Strengthens The Bonds Of A Common Brotherhood.

Public Officers Are The Servants And Agents Of The People, To Execute The Laws Which The People Have Made.