"Fourth. To banish illiteracy and ignorance from the land.
"Fifth. To secure for every workman and for every working
woman wages enough to support a life of comfort and an old
age of leisure and quiet, as befits those who have an equal
share in a self-governing State.
"Sixth. To grow and expand over the continent and over the
islands of the sea just so fast, and no faster, as we can
bring into equality and self-government under our Constitution
peoples and races who will share these ideals and help to
make them realities.
"Seventh. To set a peaceful example of freedom which mankind
will be glad to follow, but never to force even freedom upon
unwilling nations at the point of the bayonet or at the cannon's
mouth.
"Eighth. To abstain from interfering with the freedom and
just rights of other nations or peoples, and to remember
that the liberty to do right necessarily involves the liberty
to do wrong; and that the American people has no right to
take from any other people the birthright of freedom because
of a fear that they will do wrong with it."
SPEECH ON TAKING THE CHAIR AT THE NATIONAL UNITARIAN
CONFERENCE, IN WASHINGTON, OCTOBER, 1899
"The part assigned to me, in the printed plan of our proceedings,
is the delightful duty of bidding you welcome.
Pages:
1486
1487
1488
1489
1490
1491
1492
1493
1494
1495
1496
1497
1498
1499
1500
1501
1502
1503
1504
1505
1506
1507
1508
1509
1510