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Show ABOUT THE MISSION. Jl ' j. The News notes a statement by some seer i , or dreamer that our nation was raised up for a t special mission to spread enlightenment over all j s the world, and with its light to finally dominate" the earth, It carries the Idea that this I , , , J ii I thought came originally from early Mormonism ' j j j and notes what progress Is being made by com- ' 1 paring our country with Mexico on the south and Canada on the north. It evidently forget two im- i portant truths. One is that the stock of men who j settled Mexico and the other stock that settled 'Kiih'i, Canada on the north. It evidently forgets two im- l i as those who first peopled the United States, and' i if i can give any reason why the men of this nation na-tion have advanced while those of Mexico have receded, except that with our people, there has been perfect liberty to do any legitimate thing "while in Mexico the shadow of kings and priests the latter at last growing so corrupt that the Mother Church had to excommunicate the great mass of them we shall be glad to see 4t. To the j noith, until within the last very few years, the 1 shadow of the British throne was continually upon ' the people. English trade customs and English J methods ruled, and while the manhood and wo- j manhood of the people remained strong and true, . r the very policies they clung to kept them as a j whole poor and they had no means to improve their condition. The difference has been that ' every American has been permitted to think and , j to qo what he pleased to, eveiy boy had grown ' up with an Idea that what he earned was his and what he hoped for he would obtain if he was great enough to achieve it. He has believed in himself and in his God and has had no intervening interven-ing fetish. And the nation will go on expanding By jL , I while they cling to the old ideas; they will falter flgjj I ' and sink to a point where they will not be fit to Hj; h I be froe when they adopt oracles to do their think- B I'll ing for them. |