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Show Our Place NEW and wonderful illumination has 'been prepared pre-pared and attached to the statue of Liberty enlightening the world on the little island in New York bay. Far out at sea incoming mariners will see and salute it; on departing ships it will shine down in benediction. Our countrymen should try to so establish their lives that the statue will be their symbol; that those who near our shores will hail us with welcomes, wel-comes, those departing will carry but delicious remembrances. And all that is needed for that is for us as a people to be absolutely fair, while insisting upon our own rights to extend exact justice to all other people and to extend absolute justice to all other nations. Our country has a great area and is blessed by more varied resources, not half of which are, as yet vitilized, than any other land; it is a place where the poor of the world assimilate. assimi-late. That work up to date has created the American Ameri-can race; it should continue and grow refined, and the thoughts that govern should be that excellence and honors attach only to minds and hearts, and that in them rests the only claim that mortals in a free land have to honestly prerer for recognition among men. Ours should be the very greatest of nations; our influence should be paramount among the nations, and it will be when wo become great enough as individuals to make that influence which comes of intelligence and courage and an incorruptible sense of justice. Located as we are, equipped as we are, powerful power-ful as we are, the only thing required is the square deal which inserts upon the right from others, which never fails to extend the right to others. jgfgjmaggg;jjggfjgBaaaammfmmHm)iiwitmnmmn:tmiii w muni i |