He who can give to this people better streets, better homes, better schools, better churches, more religion, more of happiness, more of God, he that can be a blessing to the comunity in which he lives tonight will be great anywhere,
Great men, I have said, are very simple men. [There are just] as many great men here as are to be found anywhere. The greatest error in judging great men is that we think that they will always hold an office. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Who are the great men of the world? The young man and young woman may well ask the question. It is not necessary that they should hold an office, and yet that is the popular idea. That is the idea we teach now in our high schools and common school, that the great men of the world are those who hold some high office, and unless we change that very soon and do away with that prejudice, we are going to change to an empire.
The labor union has two difficulties; the first one is that it began to make a labor scale for all classes on par, and they scale down a man that can earn five dollars a day to two and a half a day, in order to level up to him an imbecile that cannot earn fifty cents a day. That is one of the most dangerous and discouraging things for a working man.
