fellowship them up the slopes of it us standing together e to eye and shoulder to shoulder as fellow citizens of the best city in the world to consider where we are both as regards ourselves and the common it is true that even with our or practically population there are by the last almost a score of larger cities in the united states but gentlemen if by the nest we do not stand at least then i ll be the first to request any to remove my shirt and to eat the same with the compliments of g f it may be true that new york and philadelphia will continue to keep ahead of us in size but aside from these three cities which are so overgrown that o decent white man i i nobody who loves hb wife and and god s good out o doors and likes to shake the band of his neighbor in greeting would want to live in the nd let me you right here and now i wouldn t trade a high class development lor the whole length and breadth of or state street i � aside from these three it s evident to any one with a head for facts that is the finest le of american life and prosperity to be foimd anywhere i don say we re perfect we ve got a lot to t tor type to entire i a bt well christian go future for is little old planet once while i just i size up solid citizen whale of a satisfaction our ideal citizen � i picture him first and foremost is than a bird dog not wasting a lot of good time in day dreaming or going to or kicking about things that are none of his business but putting the into some store or profession or art at night he lights up a good cigar and into the little old has and maybe the and shoots out home he the lawn or in some practice putting and then he s ready for dinner after dinner he tells the a story or takes the family to the or plays a few fists of bridge or reads the evening paper and a chapter or two of some good lively western l if he i a taste for li the next door dr q in aa tb i and vi t ut their friends and the topics of the day he goes happily to bed his conscience clear having contributed bis to the pro of the city and to his own bank account in politics and religion this sane citizen is the man on earth and in the arts he invariably has a natural taste whidi makes him pick out the best every time in no country in the world will you find so many of the old masters and of w known paintings on parlor walls as in these united states no country has anything like our number of with not only dance records and comic but also the best such as rendered by the world s highest paid singers in ot her countries art and ra ture are left to a l � s bt o ft and but in the pi ii wn � pi js from any other and for one only that the m n h i th p skill to season his n u with and � who shows both purpose and in handling his y t s i has a chance to drag down his fifty thousand a year to mingle with the biggest on terms of perfect e quality � j and to show as big a house and as swell a car as any captain of industry but mind you it s the appreciation of the v j who i have been which has made this i and you got to hand as much credit to him as to the v i authors themselves finally but most important our citizen i even if he is a bachelor is a lover of the little ones a sup porter of the which is the foundation of our civilization first last and all the time and the thing that most us from the decayed nations of europe i have never yet europe � and as a matter of fact i don t know that i care to such an awful lot as long as there s our own mighty cities and mountains to be seen � but the way i figure it out there must be a good many of our of folks abroad indeed one of the most enthusiastic i ever met the of one hundred pa cent in a that o and all ye o ns but same time one thing that us from our good brothers the over is that they re willing to take a lot off the and and while the modem american business man knows how to talk right up for himself knows how to make it good aud plenty clear that he to run the works he doesn t have to call in some hired man when it s necessary for him to answer the crooked critics of the sane and life he s not dumb like the old fashioned merchant he s got a and a punch with all modesty i want to stand up here as a representative business man and gently whisper here s our kind of folks i here s the of the american citizen here s the new generation of americans fellows with hair on their and smiles in their eyes and in their offices we re not doing any but we like ourselves first rate and if you don t like us look out � better get under cover before the town i so in my clumsy way i have tried to the real he the fellow with and bang and it s because has so large a pr 