Chapter I: Front Matter

HAVE FAITH

IN

MASSACHUSETTS

HAVE FAITH

IN

MASSACHUSETTS

_A Collection of Speeches and Messages_

BY

CALVIN COOLIDGE

_Governor of Massachusetts_

SECOND EDITION ENLARGED

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

_The Riverside Press Cambridge_

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

There are certain fundamental principles of sound community life which cannot be stated too emphatically or too often. Few public men of to-day have shown a finer combination of right feeling and clear thinking about these principles, with a gift for the pithy expression of them, than has Governor Calvin Coolidge. It was an accurate phrase that President Meiklejohn used when, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws on him at Amherst College last June, he complimented him on teaching the lesson of "adequate brevity."

His speeches and messages abound in evidences of this gift, but in the main the speeches are not easily accessible. It has seemed to some of Governor Coolidge's admirers, as it has to the publishers of this little volume, that a real public service might be rendered by making a careful selection from the best of the speeches and issuing them in an attractive and convenient form. With his permission this has been done, and it is hoped that many readers will welcome the book in this time of special need of inspiring and steadying influences.

It is a time when all men should realize that, in the words of Governor Coolidge himself, "Laws must rest on the eternal foundations of righteousness"; that "Industry, thrift, character are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil." It is a time when we must "have faith in Massachusetts. We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people,--a faith that men desire to do right, that the Commonwealth is founded upon a righteousness which will endure."

THE EDITORS

_Boston, September_, 1919

NOTE TO SECOND EDITION

In the issue of a second edition of this collection of Governor Coolidge's speeches and messages, the opportunity has been taken to add a proclamation and three recently delivered addresses, which bring the volume practically up to the date of publication.

_Boston, October, 1919_

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

_By His Excellency_

CALVIN COOLIDGE

GOVERNOR

A PROCLAMATION

Massachusetts has many glories. The last one she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives the Commonwealth is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans she can say "These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety."

War is the rule of force. Peace is the reign of law. When Massachusetts was settled the Pilgrims first dedicated themselves to a reign of law. When they set foot on Plymouth Rock they brought the Mayflower Compact, in which, calling on the Creator to witness, they agreed with each other to make just laws and render due submission and obedience. The date of that American document was written November 11, 1620.

After more than five years of the bitterest war in human experience, the last great stronghold of force, surrendering to the demands of America and her allies, agreed to cast aside the sword and live under the law. The date of that world document was written November 11, 1918.

Now, therefore, in grateful commemoration of the unsurpassed deeds of heroism performed by the service men of Massachusetts, of the sacrifice of her people, sometimes greater than life itself, of the service rendered by every war charity and organization, to honor those who bore arms, to recognize those who supported the government, in accordance with the law of the current year

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919

is set apart as a holiday for general observance and celebration of the home coming of Massachusetts soldiers, sailors and marines. In that welcome may we dedicate ourselves to a continued support of the cause for which they freely offered life, that there may be wiped away everywhere the burden of, injustice and every attempt to rule by force, and that there may be ushered in a reign of law, that will ease the weak of their great burdens, and leave the strong, unhampered by the opposition of evil men, the opportunity to exert their whole energy for the welfare of their fellow men. Let war and all force end, and peace and all law reign.

GIVEN at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-fourth.

By His Excellency the Governor.

_Secretary of the Commonwealth._

God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS

I. To the State Senate on Being Elected its President,
January 7, 1914
II. Amherst College Alumni Association, Boston, February 4, 1916
III. Brockton Chamber of Commerce, April 11, 1916
IV. At the Home of Daniel Webster, Marshfield, July 4, 1916
V. Riverside, August 28, 1916
VI. At the Home of Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton, September, 1916
VII. Lafayette Banquet, Fall River, September 4, 1913
VIII. Norfolk Republican Club, Boston, October 9, 1916
IX. Public Meeting on the High Cost of Living, Faneuil Hall,
December 9, 1916
X. One Hundredth Anniversary Dinner of the Provident Institution
for Savings, December 13, 1916
XI. Associated Industries Dinner, Boston, December 15, 1916
XII. On the Nature of Politics
XIII. Tremont Temple, November 3, 1917
XIV. Dedication of Town-House, Weston, November 27, 1917
XV. Amherst Alumni Dinner, Springfield, March 15, 1918
XVI. Message for the Boston _Post_, April 22, 1918
XVII. Roxbury Historical Society, Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 1918
XVIII. Fairhaven, July 4, 1918
XIX. Somerville Republican City Committee, August 7, 1918
XX. Written for the Sunday _Advertiser_ and _American_,
September 1, 1918
XXI. Essex County Club, Lynnfield, September 14, 1918
XXII. Tremont Temple, November 2, 1918
XXIII. Faneuil Hall, November 4, 1918
XXIV. From Inaugural Address as Governor, January 2, 1919
XXV. Statement on the Death of Theodore Roosevelt
XXVI. Lincoln Day Proclamation, January 30, 1919
XXVII. Introducing Henry Cabot Lodge and A. Lawrence Lowell at the
Debate on the League of Nations, Symphony Hall, March 19, 1919
XXVIII. Veto of Salary Increase
XXIX. Flag Day Proclamation, May 26, 1919
XXX. Amherst College Commencement, June 18, 1919
XXXI. Harvard University Commencement, June 19, 1919
XXXII. Plymouth, Labor Day, September 1, 1919
XXXIII. Westfield, September 3, 1919
XXXIV. A Proclamation, September 11, 1919
XXXV. An Order to the Police Commissioner of Boston,
September 11, 1919
XXXVI. A Telegram to Samuel Gompers, September 14, 1919
XXXVII. A Proclamation, September 24, 1919
XXXVIII. Holy Cross College, June 25, 1919
XXXIX. Republican State Convention, Tremont Temple, October 4, 1919
XL. Williams College, October 17, 1919
XLI. Concerning Teachers' Salaries, October 29, 1919
XLII. Statement to the Press, Election Day, November 4, 1919
XLIII. Speech at Tremont Temple, Saturday, November 1, 1919, 8 P.M.

HAVE FAITH

IN

MASSACHUSETTS