All of their grand achievements were the result of efforts unaided by contributions from the Government. Their growth. though rapid. was natural. the result of individual effort. Illiteracy (except that which exists among the emancipated negroes and their immediate descendants) has resulted mainly from the heavy foreign pauper population that has immigrated into our country since the late war. and the poverty of the masses caused by the late war. and their poverty is aggravated. and will be continually aggravated. with all attendant woes and ills. until the taxes are reduced and class legislation is abandoned. and until just and constitutional laws are enacted and the Government is administered in the interest of all the people. and not in the interest of the favored few. Unfetter the manhood of Americans and give them equal opportunities in the battle of life. Protect them in their lives. liberty. and pursuit of happiness. and they will. as their fathers did. demonstrate in their devotion to constitutional liberty. in their prosperity. and in their intellectual. moral. and social elevation. the Jeffersonian doctrine that the people are capable of selfgovernment.
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