Excerpt from Address of Hon. Philander Chase Knox at a Mass Meeting Held Under the Auspices of the Union League at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, October 20, 1908 The necessity for the people of the United States to be alert and to appreciate the full import of What they are about to do in the selection of a chief and vice chief magistrate, members of the House of Representatives and, through their [state elections, members of the United States Senate, was never greater than in this5 year 1908, when not only a change in per sonnel is proposed, but changes involving such departures from tried, tested, and approved policies of government as to reach to the very root of our system and to be in effect revolutionary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.