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Show AN OBJECT LESSON BY OUR PRESIDENT. While President Roosevelt was exerting himself, him-self, mind and heart to try to settle the difficulties difficul-ties that were breeding revolution in three States and threatening with a distress keen enough to amount to a calamity, the homes of tens of thousands thou-sands of people, in the British Parliament the Irish members were assailing the central Government Govern-ment and reiterating the charges of immemorial wrongs inflicted upon Ireland by that Government. Govern-ment. The two scenes, could they be portrayed on canvas by some master, would make startling companion pictures. Of course there are centuries centu-ries of hate between the two races in England and Ireland. This, too, is of that unyielding fury which has its original foundation in religious bigotry. At the same time the example set by our President Presi-dent ought to be an object lesson to the stubborn men beyond the sea. Suppose King Edward on ascending the throne had sent for the most gifted, fiery and recalcitrant Irish members and asked them if there was not some basis on which a settlement of differences could be reached, assuring them that a King needs a people's love and that if wise he always seeks that love through exact justice. He might have failed but it would have been a beginning, and if persevered in, would have resulted in a final settlement, set-tlement, and it would have placed a jewel in Edward's Ed-ward's crown brighter than any sovereign of Great Britain has ever yet worn. The most beautiful and hopeful Impression that President Roosevelt's act gives is the assurance that men and nations are drawing nearer and nearer together; that the old law of might is losing its hold; that reason, justice, mercy and intelligence intelli-gence are gaining more and more sway every year. We believe, too, that it comes more from the spirit of our own free institutions than from any other one cause. It is what our flag symbols, it is because of the new hopes it kindles in men's hearts; the hopes which awaken a sense of the need of supporting a Government which guarantees guaran-tees to all men their primitive rights, which before the law places all men on a common plane and which holds open all the lands opportunities to every citizen. The knowledge of the theory of our Government Govern-ment and its effects in our country where It Is put in force are having their influence all around the world. The nations look upon our flag as they do on no other. Its steady and increasing radiance Is not only a mighty searchlight for the world, but it Is an X-ray which, shining through the oaken doors behind which Tyranny and Ignorance and Oppression hold their thrones, makes clear their awful deformities. The Son of Freedom Is advancing higher and higher, and reign of Justice and of Peace is drawing draw-ing nearer' and, nearer. .'" T ." "'" |