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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELD

Aug 9.1933

Copyright, 1918, by
Boni & Liveright, Inc.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

YEAR 1913

A NEW PRESIDENT'S PRINCIPLES (FIRST INAUGURAL AD-

DRESS)-1-5; Grover CLEVELAND (LETTER ON DEDICATION

OF CLEVELAND'S BIRTHPLACE)-5-6; REFORM OF THE

TARIFF (ADDRESS TO CONGRESS)-6-8; THE TARIFF

LOBBY (STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS)-9; THE

NATION AND THE SOLDIER (ADDRESS At Gettysburg)

-10-13; TO THE CITIZENS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

(MESSAGE SENT BY GOVERNOR-GENERAL HARRISON)—13;

IDEALS OF THE COLLEGE (ADDRESS AT SWARTHMORE COL-

LEGE)—14-16; RELATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICA (AD-

DRESS BEFORE THE SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS

AT MOBILE)-16-21

YEAR 1914

REGULATION OF TRUSTS (ADDRESS TO CONGRESS)-21-27;

TOLLS ON THE Panama Canal (Address TO CONGRESS)

-27-28; PATRIOTISM AND THE SAILOR (Address at the

UNVEILING OF the Statue OF COMMODORE JOHN BARRY)

-28-32; THE MEN WHO FOUGHT FOR THE UNION

(MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS AT ARLINGTON)-32-34;

UNION OF SPIRIT BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH (AD-

DRESS AT A MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF THE CONFEDER-

ATE DEAD AT ARLINGTON)-34-36; THE NAVAL SERVICE

(ADDRESS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS)-36-39;

AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER (ADDRESS AT INDEPEND

ENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA)-39-44; NEUTRALITY OF

FEELING (A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION)—44-46; In-

TERNATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL LAW (ADDRESS BEFORE

THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION)-46-48; THE YOUNG

MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (ADDRESS BEFORE THE

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION)-49-55; FOREIGN TRADE

AND SHIP BUILDING (ADDRESS TO CONGRESS)-55-60.

YEAR 1915

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (JACKSON DAY ADDRESS AT

INDIANAPOLIS)-61-67; PROPER TESTS OF IMMIGRANTS

(VETO MESSAGE OF THE LITERACY TEST BILL)-67-70;

NATIONAL COMMERCE (ADDRESS TO THE UNITED STATES

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AT WASHINGTON)-70-77; A

CONFUSED WORLD AT WAR (ADDRESS TO THE CONFER-

ENCE OF METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH AT WASH-

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