Speaker. of the lack of confidence and of public assault on the honor and integrity of the legislative bodies of this country. unmerited and unjust. as I believe. is one of the disintegrating symptoms which hover. vaguely if you will. around the body politic and distinctly threaten its peace and perpetuityone of those symptoms which were contemplated with so much seriousness and apprehension in the recent political campaign. It was claimed to be the corporations against the people. organized capital against organized labor. united wealth against common poverty. %nch were the cries. and they were calculated to fill the patriotic mind with fear and misgiving. What. if anything. had the recent immigrant to do with that? On the contrary. the danger will be aggravated and emphasized if this country will suffer the wave of an intolerant spirit of exclusion and narrowmindedness to shut it in. We must go back to the fundamental principles under which we became great and prosperous. and let in the light of day and true manhood in all its forms and aspirations..
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