The Chief Business Of The American People

Because Of What America Is And What America Has Done, A Firmer Courage, A Higher Hope, Inspires The Heart Of All Humanity.

The Slogan 'press On' Has Solved And Always Will Solve The Problems Of The Human Race.

Politics Is Not An End, But A Means. It Is Not A Product, But A Process. It Is The Art Of Government. Like Other Values It Has Its Counterfeits. So Much Emphasis Has Been Placed Upon The False That The Significance Of The True Has Been Obscured And Politics Has Come To Convey The Meaning Of Crafty And Cunning Selfishness, Instead Of Candid And Sincere Service.

The Government Of A Country Never Gets Ahead Of The Religion Of A Country. There Is No Way By Which We Can Substitute The Authority Of The Law For The Virtues Of Men.

Numbered Among Our Population Are Some 12,000,000 Colored People. Under Our Constitution Their Rights Are Just As Sacred As Those Of Any Other Citizen. It Is Both A Public And A Private Duty To Protect Those Rights. The Congress Ought To Exercise All Its Powers Of Prevention And Punishment Against The Hideous Crime Of Lynching, Of Which The Negroes Are By No Means The Sole Sufferers, But For Which They Furnish A Majority Of The Victims.