ts of the country, he said:

"Work is the one American word, and as a result great is the
monument erected to our industry. Our accumulations are
enormous.

"From time to time questions affecting the whole wealth of the
nation must be passed upon by the people. These repressionists
have shown that there is no interest so vital but that they
will smite it hip and thigh if by so doing they may advance the
policy of repression. You are confronted therefore with a power
that bids you to become repressionists or stand subject to
onslaughts whenever the fancy obtains that a lick at your
interests will do their cause good.

"You cannot commit yourselves to the cause of repression. It
taints character. You are great employers of labor. In the
mighty problems that are to confront you your spirit will be
your most valuable asset. You must keep it pure at all hazards.
Nor can your business interests long endure these constant jars
from the repressionists. You cannot afford to accept either
horn of the dilemma offered you by the repressionists. Your
only remedy lies in smiting repression."

To the statesmen whose anxious eyes were upon the future of the nation,
he said:

"In the days that are now upon us and in the years that are to
come there can be no escape, perhaps, from some ills of which
the fathers never dreamed, unless a larger grant of power be
given unto our national government. However pressing the
situation, rely upon it, the repressionists will seek to keep
the nation in swaddling clothes for fear that added power
might some day turn its attention to the question of
repression."

In an address to the whole people, he said:

"A power that would wrong a race, that would in any way
restrict human growth, that would not have the nation a fair
and open field, is out of tune with heaven, is working at cross
purposes with the whole universe, and will carry into an abyss
all whom it can mislead."

The Negroes are a people capable of great enthusiasm and ardent
attachments. All their fervor was thrown into the campaign. Any vast
body of people with deep convictions have the power to greatly impress
others. The settled conviction of the Negroes that their very destiny in
America hinged, it seemed, upon the outcome of this election, was not
without its psycholo