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Show THEMISTOCLES When Themlstoclos was usked by his host at 11 dinner party to entertain enter-tain tho guosts by playing tho lute, ho replied that ho could not play tho flddlo, but that ho could mako a small tovn a great clt Wo have In this nation many politicians who nro good "flddlcri.." but they cannot mako a small town 11 great city. Wo nro overrun over-run with orators who can play upon tho passions of tho people, but thoy can't put lirlclc and mortar together Wo need bulldors. Lot thoso who hunger and thirst for powor understand that tho hlghem glory of a stntosman Is to construe!, and that It is butter for a man that ho Bhould build a public highway than that ho should become Governor of u slato, and that ho start n plow than that ho bocoino the author of a law. Tho true teBt of statesmanship Is the plow nnd tho hammer, so let thoso who would Govern, first build. |