Show HJ III ISS ov os UI II OmiT Franklin before hU hi douth dOli th III In 1790 expressed to the th effect that he ho would like Uko to 10 lonio back to tn C f III In n It hundred years yean to Iu see ee 0 what II go a century would brine Ho md tied hl reference to 10 sciences Art and 1 politics politic Ho lie expected glorious results from time tho of oC In and amid tho the emancipation of from the lJ of ot le mf and rl ls tOj o e PV wha h r u bring ue lwe jt fruit or bitter disappoint was wu but natural wo we lime have no nn doubt has hils fol followed lowed the th development of ot thin Ihl country and lint tho the effect of the work of Ida his hi ago upon tho thio entire world with Intense interest from Irom hi his hili place iaco on all tho Iho other 1110 ot of tho the veil v lI for wo Wn believe that thaI men live hive though they th y dip die dl and Ind that they Iho are uro not nol left Ift In Ignorance of ot what on earth From our point of View lew 11 It would be Interesting to know knOll whether tho the material immaterial development hUll hits not lint far tar Hd the tha expectations of ot tho the founders of tho the It H would be ho Interesting to 10 know what whal Franklin Thomas Jefferson and the time theother other of that day think or of tho Iho ho United now how whether It Its heal leal and ond moral progress has haH been what they the hoped anti and 1 exported from their sacrifices their The material development hits hils lm hrell nothing short of 01 II III 10 II II The thirteen colonies li have ive grown Into Inlo a me I nation of ot 48 states Mate The Tho Americano of DC that day Ia da loire have ex ox expanded 0 into M The Tho little fringe of settlers along tho the Atlantic seaboard from Now New Hampshire to II Georgia III 13 years jears arll ngo ago h spread across a 1 nent n nt and lind has to tu thu tho limit Gulf of MexicO The TIme country now fronts on in two oceans HIU It II has hl dependencies In both Over Or lorto In the time Ameri American can Mediterranean the time Stain and ond fly 11 n as they time IlIe do item tI I over or the Phil I DPi flOS I a I ii and A has kee thousand Islands In tile the I adHe 1111 lit The Tho republic of or Cuba Culm time the republic of cit II ii e i under our And across act n the of Panama the lie United Stated IH lee building ci t 1 an outlay of of ot million of Ii u t for the u mice 1111 e of ot ery country III In the world on the seine nine term terms nn nil fur The un II Hi its It car career r In poverty Ihu l with whim witha wll h hn a n C AUh of ot ur cur ir morn tho w wraIth of ut the tho United fiLed Kingdom K I n gibe iii s nil time the r cum corn co Iii Willie vve we 0 ha alit I per leer cent of the th we WI produce L per leer jt rent melt of the Ihl gold Old 16 36 ller runt coat of or UN its It cool M per icier of tiC Its lIa moan II t U IK IS 8 t Ir fr rent ceCiL of ur Its 1111 r 10 40 per her c nt of tt of It its Ita pig Iron U 41 1 r cent of t tIta its its Ita steel alel K 11 I er r cent of ot It its 1111 petroleum U M 5 leer pur tent lit of Its It copper 70 HT cent Its Ito II and M MJ per ller eor gent ceni of lr IU its tA corn am Thee Tho United State since ridiculed by bl rii hones Dickens and Mrs Mra Trot Troll lope l today U is I the object of ut and ltd tf it th the rw r n l to tu Mr Ir IrU Hix U by II I crowned houd li Is a It oil of o For Jor or there Lucre I to no I doubt thi the ties hora upon him were ver hI ni Hn n fur for thu Hc lie It of at f he be II IH Is H it d cIt zen I Th io Is Ie po no DO question of ef our material m tta I It h hs be heti n 11 d 1 and nd with gigantic strides III In ether there liar I Is not nol the th tf Oscar Hinc reason fur for Il n e have 1110 an n system thAt hut I if la among amons the I hurst sl on oil emeriti rth hut but nt has ha not mu diminished the HUH dew of Df human life liCe In its I dI chei in III our tir country It Is I em to 10 dust duet under the tie Ih wheels of Pr mend In iii the he streets of our larger Mr clU Murders head cItte Ide art ctr drenching the Ih roll coil vt Ith human I lh ne tv Is ITI en n In many mn public offices We Weh Webs h bs 1114 e n mete r reason son to lu h ht he ud over Oler the lie recent dl dIsclosures oln u In the United States but the th trouble If t I that men are political leaders with r und aull mint Influence What Whal chance has honesty In a it I data where rule itile and b 11 nuiko the th There Ther Is I room for tor moral neural Improvement Politically tee everything IH Is I not us lie leethe the of ot tho lImo Republic H It to IK lie They mount meant that all 1111 power I Wf of or government should bo bee derived from time the but bul w WO wee limits have not yet yd fully tully this thin great American citizens with time tho treat great III In of if freedom In Ire their possession mire are stIll seen on bending to 10 Iho the gulden calf white this cult In Is practiced M seize the hl of office flees fice Politicians who have no friends but such uch an He II thoy they can Ion buy find anel ll who tho ho have fiat neither virtue nor hon lt hilt but who mho know how hol iio to ll use uce IlI such uch carets vord a 1 0 pawns on u a che eh board l when time the tit came nm Is I on and then put thorn Into the braggarts lul who have haxo no nil merit but bul an ito Intuitive knowledge of f how ho to lve sometime rulers with tho that tho tIme I o opiA pl pie piA are aro under economic bur burdens him dens too Ion on to bear bedr IlIch could not 1101 fall II to 10 strike I with cere tre ha lie to 10 the tho of ot his hili lifework at lit this thus time |