He said: "Scouts, you have heard that speech is silver and silence is golden.

I think this kind of shouting is highest grade sterling silver.

It is chunks of silver, as one might say.

But since this is a matter of the gold cross, I ask for just a moment or two of golden silence, while I speak to you.

I see about me, scouts from Ohio, and Michigan, and New Hampshire--" "And Hoboken!" Pee-wee piped out.