I saw men who but a few months previous were members of Congress, then without employment and in poverty.

Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing.

The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.

How many times I wished then, and have often wished since, that by some power of magic I might remove the great bulk of these people into the county districts and plant them upon the soil, upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start,--a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.
In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying.

These girls were taught by their mothers, in rather a crude way it is true, the industry of laundrying.