Show WORLD NEEDE NEEDED LIGHT HE THE LIGHT No t Nation of Earth Knew Freedom at the Time the United States Demanded It It At the time of our revolutions the freest of countries England was governed gov only by king and nobles The wealthy and intelligent but untitled Diddle class the merchants and shippers shipper's shippers shipper ship ship- pers per and lawyers were disfranchised and Ignored as asas as IW the Uie Illiterate laboring masses of the British isles The laws for millions were made by hundreds who laid the burdens of war and tax atlon on the shoulders of those who had bad neither a vote nor a n voice in the government The other great peoples of Europe the French the Spanish the tho Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans the Italians the Russians en Joyed no semblance whatever of representative representative rep rep- goy government and were gripped by hardly less unrestrained unrestrained un restrained or hardly more enlightened enlightened ened than those of the tho Orient Such j was the black complexion of at tho the political po world when the signers of the Declaration of Independence marked out on the great map the lines of of ofa a anew anew new nation along a short and narrow strip of at the eastern coast cout of the North American continent and dedicated It to an untried experiment in govern govern- government govern ment |