ments of the party and of the Churches, and especially of the newspapers, the latter be-
ing the power that men in Congress fear more than any other, for they depend on their
home papers to keep them right before their people and in public favor. I should not
omit to state somewhere in this letter, and here may do as well, the constant efforts
of Colonel Trumbo while all these things were going on, and his success in assembling
strong influences to accomplish it, in securing favorable action toward your people and
Church in the Department of Justice and the other Departments here where confiscation
of property and other outrages had been perpetrated or attempted. One of these was the
debts imposed by the Poland Act, amounting to nearly a million of dollars, which he was
thus able to save you from. Of course, these things you know as well as I; only I have
felt that reference should be made to them in this letter, which perhaps, with the papers
accompanying it, will be the most detailed statement put into written form of the strug-
gles of your people to emerge from the outrages of Congressional law, to escape penal-
ties laid upon you with so much injustice, and the final struggle of your Territory into
Statehood. Of course, I commit this letter to such purpose through you in the confidenc[e]
that grows up between men who heart to heart have made a struggle against the mightiest
of opposition in a common desire for success. I deal frankly with men, revealing to
you friends who are worthy of your remembrance and gratitude and also under a sense of
duty mentioning those who failed in the time of your need to support you with friendship
and met you with enmity and opposition instead. I do not believe in treasuring up even
a sense of wrong, nor nursing resentment, nor entailing revenge. Human nature is too
weak, the grave too near, the necessity for forgiveness too apparent, for these things
to be. They only dwarf those who entertain and exercise them, and make them appear in
something of competition and likeness with those from whose meanness they have suffered.
But I do believe that every man and every people should know and should remember through
time and generation the difference between those who win friends and those who win en-
emies.

There are some facts in connection with the struggle here in the winter of
1892-3 that should be made known to you in the deep confidence of this letter, and for

ments of the party and of the Churches, and especially of the newspapers, the latter being the power that men in Congress fear more than any other, for they depend on their home papers to keep them right before their people and in public favor. I should not omit to state somewhere in this letter, and here may do as well, the constant efforts of Colonel Trumbo while all these things were going on, and his success in assembling strong influences to accomplish it, in securing favorable action toward your people and Church in the Department of Justice and the other Departments here where confiscation of property and other outrages had been perpetrated or attempted. One of these was the debts imposed by the Poland Act, amounting to nearly a million of dollars, which he was thus able to save you from. Of course, these things you know as well as I; only I have felt that reference should be made to them in this letter, which perhaps, with the papers accompanying it, will be the most detailed statement put into written form of the struggles of your people to emerge from the outrages of Congressional law, to escape penalties laid upon you with so much injustice, and the final struggle of your Territory into Statehood. Of course, I commit this letter to such purpose through you in the confidence that grows up between men who heart to heart have made a struggle against the mightiest of opposition in a common desire for success. I deal frankly with men, revealing to you friends who are worthy of your remembrance and gratitude and also under a sense of duty mentioning those who failed in the time of your need to support you with friendship and met you with enmity and opposition instead. I do not believe in treasuring up even a sense of wrong, nor nursing resentment, nor entailing revenge. Human nature is too weak, the grave too near, the necessity for forgiveness too apparent, for these things to be. They only dwarf those who entertain and exercise them, and make them appear in something of competition and likeness with those from whose meanness they have suffered. But I do believe that every man and every people should know and should remember through time and generation the difference between those who win friends and those who win enemies.

There are some facts in connection with the struggle here in the winter of 1892-3 that should be made known to you in the deep confidence of this letter, and for