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The hard-handed men who broke the prairie, hewed the forests, made the roads and bridges, and built little homes in the wilderness.

To the Norse lumberjack and the "Forty-eight" German and the men of the "Iron Brigade," and all toilers who, by their sweat, made possible our schools, a great university, and all the good that is with us.

To the legislators, always criticised and never praised.