trouble if you are trying to get out of the way. But I have no
objection on that account to the ordinary automobile properly handled
by a man of conscience who is also a gentleman. I have no objection to
the size, power, and beauty of an automobile. I am interested,
however, in the size and conscience of the men who handle them, and
what I object to is that some corporation men are taking "joy-rides"
in their corporations.

Time and time again men were reminded of the great speeches of Lincoln and
thought they saw his fine spirit breathing through sentences like these:

Gentlemen, we are not working for to-day, we are not working for our
own interest, we are all going to pass away. But think of what is
involved. Here are the tradition, and the fame, and the prosperity,
and the purity, and the peace of a great nation involved. For the time
being we are that nation, but the generations that are behind us are
pointing us forward to the path and saying:

"Remember the great traditions of the American people," and all those
unborn children that will constitute the generations that are ahead
will look back to us, either at those who serve them or at those who
betray them. Will any man in such circumstances think it worthy to
stand and not try to do what is possible in so great a cause, to save
a country, to purify a polity, to set up vast reforms which will
increase the happiness of mankind? God forbid that I should either be
daunted or turned away from a great task like this.

Speaking of the candidate who opposed him:

I have been informed that he has the best of me in looks. Now, it is