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Show Our Country's Rush and Roar ONE of the most impressive thoughts that comes to the journalist who sees daily the newspapers from all over the Republic, Repub-lic, is the sharp competitions and the irresistible energies of the American people. It is the same in all directions. The building of cities and railroads; rail-roads; the extension of the area to be cultivated; culti-vated; the improvement in machinery to reduce to the minimum manual labor; the combinations to produce greater results with less labor; the efforts to get more results from every acre of land cultivated; new enterprises in every direction; direc-tion; the everlasting rush and roar of a free people unhampered by any law that places a restriction re-striction upon their energies; is altogether marvelous. mar-velous. Note the change since the great war closed only forty-four years ago, and then try to anticipate what will be in forty-four years more. What will all other nations, ancient or modern be by comparison? |