of such men that it s the most stable the greatest of our cities new york also has its thousands of real folks but new york is cursed with foreigners so are and san oh we have a golden of cities � and with their renowned with its great and soap and with steel city and and that open their gates on the bosom of the ocean like and other magnificent sister cities for by the last there were no less than sixty eight glorious american with a population of over one hundred and all these cities stand together for power and purity and against i foreign ideas and � with with with los with with a good live wire from or or is the of every like fellow from or fort worth or but it s here in the home for manly men and womanly women and bright that you find the largest proportion of these regular and that s what sets it in a class by itself that s why will be remembered in history as having set the pace for a civilization that shall endure when the old time killing ways are gone forever and the day of earnest efficient shall have dawned all round the world i some time i hope folks will quit handing all the credit to a lot of eaten out of date old european and give proper credit to the famous that dean fighting determination to win success that has made the little old city celebrated in every land and wherever milk and are believe me the world has fallen too long for these worn out countries that aren t producing anything but and scenery and that haven t got one per hundred people and that don t know a loose leaf from a slip over and it s just about time for some to get his back up and for a show down i i tell you and her sister cities are producing a new type of there are many between and these other and i m glad of iti the extraordinary and sane of stores offices streets hotels clothes and new throughout the united states shows how strong and enduring a type is ours i always like to remember a piece that wrote for the newspapers about his lecture it is doubtless familiar to many of you but if you will permit me take a chance and read it it s one of the classic poems like if by or s the man worth while and i always carry this of it in my note book when i am out upon the road a poet with a s load i mostly sing a hearty song and take a and along a handing out my fine of brand of sweet sunshine and and stable lines of and jokes to and other folks to and feel i ain t like other and then old major satan a who s always he gives his tail a lively and gets in quick his dirty work he fills me up with my hair the backward way he he makes me than a hound on sunday when the folks ain t round and then b i would prefer to never be a a round in cars and smoking fifty cent cigars and never more i want to i simply want to be back home a and ham with folks who whom i am but when i get that lonely spell i simply seek the best hold no matter in what town i be � st paul or k c in washington in or and at that inn it my dome that i again am right at home if i should stand a spell in front of that first class hotel that to the loves to across from some big if i should look around and and wonder in what town i was i swear that i could never tell for the crowd be so swell in just the same fine sort of they wear at home and all the queens with on their beans and all the fellows standing round a always i ll be bound the same good jolly kind of bout politics and stuff and players of renown that nice talk in my home then i entered thai hotel i d look around and say well for there would be the tame news stand same v i and grand same of famous brand i d find at home i ll and when t saw the jolly bunch come in for eats at lunch and up in to large of french why then i d stand right up and i ve never left my home at and all i d sit me down beside some in brown upon a chair of and murmur to him in a rush bill tell me good how is your stock a out then we d be two solid a like giddy of weather home and wives lodge brothers then for all our lives so when sam satan makes you blue good friend that s what i d up and do for in these states you you never leave your home sweet home yes sir these other are our true s in the great game of vital living but let s not have any mistake about this i claim that is the best partner and the growing partner of the whole i trust i may be if i ve a few to back up my claims if they are old stuff to any of you yet the tidings of like the good news of the bible never become tedious to the ears of a real no matter how oft the sweet story is told i every intelligent person knows that more milk and cream more paper boxes and more lighting than any other city in the united states if not in the world but it is not so universally known 