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I am happy to say that the faith of my ancestors and my

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contemporaries in the kind of government that we have in

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this country and the principles on which this government

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was founded has been vindicated again and again.

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That is not always enough to sustain our young

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people as we point to the fact that man once he sees the

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problem and understands, responds, but I have been heartened

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in this Convention as I have seen how our delegates, many

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coming from various areas of life who had no understanding

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of some of the problems, have responded to the basic1 needs

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and the principles here and I commend that and I say that

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in the remaining years that I have for public service it

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has been an enriching and heartening experience.

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I want to say that I saw the faith that I have,

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I have faith in the goodness of man. I think that is what

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our founding fathers had, but they set up a Constitution

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and a government to protect man against himself and his

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weaknesses and that is what this Constitution does. It

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protects man against his own inhumanity to himself.

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Certainly the whole area represented by this

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principle of collective bargaining is a very vital one to our