Show AMERICAS WORLD POSITION As compared with all this countrys previous notions the world seems smaller than before nnd the United Stales appears vastly larger Much of the recent demonstration of course was a persons tribute to the ability and the virtues of Americas dead Chief Magistrate hut a large part of It was a recognition of the conspicuous conspicu-ous share which America is taking and the still more prominent part which it Is I destined to lake In the worlds affairs af-fairs At no time In the past has the United States been the object of so much attention to the rest of the nations na-tions as HIs at the present time No 1 other country In all history except the Rome of the Caesars has ever occupied I occu-pied such a commanding place In thfe I worlds comity as the United States does at this moment The world prominence promi-nence brings responsibilities commensurate commen-surate In proportions American example ex-ample through the potency and pervasiveness per-vasiveness of American prestige Is capable of wielding a wider Influence than was ever exerted by any other nillon greater than Persia Athens or the Home of the days of Trojan or Marcus Mar-cus Aurellus This power carries with it a duty which cannot be shirked even If there were any disposition to evade It In this case In a direct and emphatic em-phatic degree noblJity haa obllgations q The greatest of the worlds nations must in the future as It has In the past continued to furnish a lofty example ex-ample for the Imitation or the Insplra lion or all the worlds peoples St Louis GlobeDemoCrat |