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Show OUR BLENDED RACE. The serious illness of the Pope has made Rome once more the center of the world's thought, as it was for five hundred years before the coming of the Messiah, m, it was for a thousand years thereafter. there-after. t That wonderful seven-hilled city whose streets the Caesars trod, where war was reduced to a real science, where a new architecture was born a new code for the government of men was written, writ-ten, where new charms were given to eloquence, to music; where for centuries her soldiers came home victorious or never came. That city around which more interest is drawn than around any other spot on earth, save that city where the great white Temple was built, where the Cross was upraised. The home of great soldiers, of Emperors, of the race that so stamped itself upon the thoughts of men that the memory of something of its ancient power and magnificence still awes mankind. The Iron Kingdom, that with short sword, javelin and spear subdued the world and created a distinct civilization. There, too, for fifteen hundred years has been the great capitol of the Roman church, and there it grew until its head became greater than any king. The thought of his place possessed the late Pontiff to the last, and when he cried out for something to strengthen him that he might, like the ancient Roman Emperors, die standing, the cry was but an echo of the indomitable spirit and pride of Ave and twenty centuries ago. That race is coming in hordes to our country. With the thrift that has grown out of centuries of poverty, they are making homes; their children chil-dren will intermarry with ours; what will the race on this continent be a hundred years hence? The old imperious will is only dormant; it is not extinguished. It blazed out in Napoleon, in Garibaldi, Gar-ibaldi, it waits only a little encouragoment and then an opportunity. Behind that fierce will in the old days was the pride of citizenship and the love of liberty. Those attributes are not lost, they are but dormant, having been beaten to insensibility insensi-bility by the oppressions of the centuries. Blended with the American race, educated and given prosperity with a renewal of their old hopes, who says that the whole race will not be enriched by the blending? Let us hope so, for a continent to the south awaits our peaceful conquest and the world's equilibrium may soon rest on our power. L |