| Show Wante dHen aen at no time in history was there the imperative demand for men in the most extended sense of that word as ae today to day if we look over and around we shall see that the world has outgrown the genius which has it As if the pir pirdies pigmies b mies had piled the matter upon matter until thare thra e was no place hut but threw its shadows upon them until they were lost in the immensity of tho the of technical and mechanical me ch grandeur ve know the little powers which may undermine the mountains we c know the coral reefs cilinia law pan nan high huilt built up from froin the cold ocean depths by the infinitesimal specks of animation not only nature and the raw cl elements and the untamed powers engendered in them not aly only the iron iron horse borse speeding out tho the wind the lightning outdoing outgoing out doing the cyclone but man the little pig pygmies pigmies ZD inies of the day has brou brought t bt forth these 0 giant bant powers unbarred the gates and let loose the whirlwinds whirl winds and now must guide them not only the engineer kings in in material things but a greater power lifts developed the relation of gigantic powers to powers and to civilization delo demands ands men who have grown and developed from the now new era in which they live to giants giant in intellectual grasp and executive ability the prayer of the american nation is for men grand individual men if welock at our high places the chairs of state and nation we find those elevated to positions as mere figureheads figure heads nonentities non entities I 1 men n en who depend upon their cabinets their party hacks backs swayed by every clamor of wild opinions or dormant and possesses possesse pos possessed dof of no inherent capacity or cultivation men who have only ligten listened ed to the sel selfish fisli intolerant bigoted and narrow views of the petty hamlets the giant minds which have rison risen about thel mere demands of party men who grew to statesmen baglos which have ba vc been peeked itt at by daws lions basped to death by lical swarms of gnats until the bio biographical raab history of the nation is I 1 cl chapter t 0 of f disgrace statesmen As statesmen there are but a few grand minds now before tho the public sut but a tew from whose ranks lite select a president who will see and comprehend the value and just judit conof men corporations and tile the state and the national wa welfare abare men who the will build up the nation not hamper and fetter and destroy the tha elements of a progressive civilization let us have men inen men in every walk wal k station of life men with broad minds of healthy mold mid nd man hoods st stature iture men of a new courage courage 0 a new comprehension lien sion a bew new foresight men who know the characters of the industrial commercial and political s seas astha captains do of the ocean occa n ever every y sphere of american activity y is taday ta day in want of MEN ex |
