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Show NATIONAL CHARACTER. I The statement of Tolstoi that a nation can- fl not be made great by legislation Is true. Leglsla- fl tlon can take the obstacles from the paths of a jl people, It can withdraw the unjust burdens which 8 former legislation may have laid upon a people, I but much more Is needed to make a nation great. fl The units of the nation, the men . and women, fl must bo great before the nation can- be called fl groat. By great, In this connection we moan that jl their hearts must be altogether loyal, their pride fl in native land a grand passion, they must have I that feeling which causes them to believe that I they, personally, are, In a measure, responsible II for the good name and progress of their coun- I try, and when a people are so Impressed the ag- I gregato can not help but be a race which the I world calls great. The founders of our country I knew these truths and hence decided that If a I Government could be framed wherein no law I would prevent any citizen from doing any legltl- I mate thing, which would give overy citizen a voice I in the country's legislation, such a pride in, such I a love for the country would be awakened, that 9 the Government would be the people's utmost sol- I icltudo, that to them the character would come I I which would cause them to hold life, fortune, I socred honor everything subordinate to their I country's claims; that with these Impressions - I such a hope would spring up In their hearts, that I In making a conquest of the wilderness they I would be Invincible. I I The result has established how clear were I their visions, but the thought still com as back fl that the country's future does not depend upon a HI ' I 11 i its wealth or lts present progress, but upon the H I! I 1; " rule in the homes of the country, for it is in Hit I f' i them that character is formed. So long as those H ' I llr ' homes are pure and true and hold high ideals, H I ' III! tlle Doys and S'l'ls that go out from those homes H 1 1 EM will De true and PurG and tney will make the H f ill' status by which the land will be judged. We HI ' 1 1 1 wish that ie Immigration now sweeping in from H 1111 Southern Europe might be diverted to other K I f J lands. A half million of those people are pouring Hj I ;l :;! in upon us annually and they are taxing the as- H , similative capacity of our country to the limit, H S I for they have not grown up feeling that the in- Hj life' tegrity of their country rested, not upon its army Ui -j If f and navy, but upon the character of Its homes, H ill an(i tno5r tll0uSht in coming to our shores is not H III that whatever else may come, they must be true HI I I I to the country of their adoption, and that their Hj ll own humble homes must refloat the character of Hj III i tne men and women within those homes and that HI 1 IM tne strength of the land must, after all, rest Hj I"! I I upon the devotion of its people. H III1' Wo wish they might be turned aside for they H fill J and tlielr descendents for two generations will Bh i 1 1 1 Ir i never be such men and women as mf1"' a bulwark n ! 1 1 1 I ' for a country. |