Though The People Support The Government; The

It Is A Condition Which Confronts Us-not A Theory.

He Who Takes The Oath Today To Preserve, Protect, And Defend The Constitution Of The United States Only Assumes The Solemn Obligation Which Every Patriotic Citizen . . . Should Share With Him. . . . Your Every Voter, As Surely As Your Chief Magistrate, Under The Same High Sanction, Though In A Different Sphere, Exercises A Public Trust.

Unskilled In Sophistry And New To The Darker Ways Of National Politics, Grover Cleveland Faced His Accusers, His Slanderers, And His Judges, The Sovereign People, Conscious Of The General Rectitude Of His Life, And Courageously Determined To Bear The Burdens Of His Sins In So Far As Guilt Was His.

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.

The Broad Rich Acres Of Our Agricultural Plains Have Been Long Preserved By Nature To Become Her Untrammeled Gift To A People Civilized And Free, Upon Which Should Rest, In Well-distributed Ownership, The Numerous Homes Of Enlightened, Equal, And Fraternal Citizens... Nor Should Our Vast Tracts Of So-called Desert Lands Be Yielded Up To The Monopoly Of Corporations Or Grasping Individuals, As Appears To Be Much The Tendency Under The Existing Statute.