Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 210: July, 1919I have come to speak to you today upon the most vital problem which has confronted the people of America Since the birth of the Republic. I shall make no preface and no exordium. There are times when, in the consideration of movements affecting human progress, rhetoric has no place. This is one Of those times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.