| Show Ben Franklin Senator Lodge In Scrlbne Chief among those new members was nnjn mill Franklin the most tnmou Arend can then IIvlngkno throughout Iu rope by his oclenlilic dlcovorl known In nnglan1 bolde am the fearless chnmplon ot Ih colonies great In relearn nod In Ialrlltl a statesman And d1plotan List a man ot letters anti a Inpulllr rite ivhosi mit and mis I dom were read In faulty tongues Just rlurn1 from London end the wisest And IIIOpt influential man In Congress III I Is viorth while to pause a moment to leak nt Franklin standing forth novf as a leader at revollllloll for hi In ono lit the great men Of Iho Century He Was then In his I Seventieth your but IForon And 1cca 1 as v6r In mind and body 110 could have done more thin any other site man 10 prevent colonial revolt He wn emlncntl conservative and pencelving us well na loyal 10 t the mother country The ministry that would have listened tu him and bn lultloII by him would have held > Amer lea and fastened It tighter than ever 10 tile empire Instead of this or cia I nsland sent her solicitor genera In llltynnd abuse him In the 1 pironee or the Privy council and b fore the IM lIh pcoilpI > iiikn listened In pit nee to the Imectlve then heaped upon him and the mo t powerful frlen o or Iaop ullion still cnneliiallon as lost t a 1nRlind Now he had come c kIn k-In guide his Countrymen In the dangers that biset them and to win nllle rn them front beyond the reap In Ih nan nr clnet letters end phllnnlhr py we nit apt to lose sight of the bold talesman and gi at diplomatist Nve bin cnt that familiar face with Ih fine rloh1d and the expression ot ulIl I vcrmill Inoolen lot there 08 nn olhor aspect 111c nl tile 1lclllre ot rinnkllu here the fur till I I Pulled I doxin liver the hend The noble brow Is I bidden the pe I ndms air of soft nnd gentle tKimolcnco I his failed und a face of strength find power of vigorous I will mal of mi astuteness rarely equaled looks out at us and fives oui ollellllm This versatile genius with the ett I nn IMS of the 1urltnn mill i ling fill Ih I rkeptlclsm And lolornlllp or tile elghlenlh Century lhlloOIhon Icl one 10 bo lightly re Mled and IIbueo |
