I have noticed. with a good deal of pleasure. all my life. and I think it is the redeeming feature of popular government. that. as a rule. whatever views a man might express concerning a law or a proposition before he went into office. when he took the oath of office to administer the law as he found it. he attempted to fulfill the duties of his office and to carry out the law regardless of personal predilection or former personal prejudice. I think that is the case. I just as lief. so far as I am concerned. as a rule. take a man who might have been even a labor agitator opposed to immigration and put him in charge of the execution of the law. and I believe he would execute the law as he found it. If we ever reach the time in this country when people generally will not do that. we have reached the end of successful popular government.
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