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make your laws, and, as far as I could see, there were houses and houses.  Then I began to understand why the white people were so great.  They work.  Every brick in all those houses were made by someone's hands.  The white people are rich and great, and men like you are the ones who make them great.  I have seen your great chief, but it is you who make your country great."

Did any labor leader ever make a more appropriate speech to a band of working men?

STANDING BEAR IN BOSTON

There was a great meeting in the Music Hall, Boston...every seat was taken long before the hour for the addresses.  The aisles were crowded, the corridors were crowded...the street for a block each way was a mass of surging people vainly trying to get in when the old chief arrived.  On the platform were the Governor of the state, the mayor of the city, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Wendell Phillips, Dr. Alcott, and many more of the distinguished citizens of Boston.

Standing Bear always closed his speech with the following words:

"When the white people came to this country, the Indians were turned over to the army.  For years