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God Reigns, And The Government At Washington Still Lives!

All Free Governments Are Managed By The Combined Wisdom And Folly Of The People.

Heroes Did Not Make Our Liberties; They But Reflected And Illustrated Them.

Statistical Science Is Indispensable To Modern Statesmanship. In Legislation As In Physical Science It Is Beginning To Be Understood That We Can Control Terrestrial Forces Only By Obeying Their Laws. The Legislator Must Formulate In His Statutes Not Only The National Will, But Also Those Great Laws Of Social Life Revealed By Statistics.

The Chief Instrument Of American Statistics Is The Census, Which Should Accomplish A Two-fold Object. It Should Serve The Country By Making A Full And Accurate Exhibit Of The Elements Of National Life And Strength, And It Should Serve The Science Of Statistics By So Exhibiting General Results That They May Be Compared With Similar Data Obtained By Other Nations.