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Show A beautiful tribute was paid to the American people by Admiral Dewey, when ho said: "Every man In the United States navy Is a man of Intelligence. Intel-ligence. He knows Just what to do and the time to do It." lie might have added that he would do It. While primarily the boquet is thrown at the navy, the whole people can take It to themselves. The men In the naj come from the ranks of tho American people, and as a stream cannot rise above Its sou ice, so the seamen aie no better than their piogcultois. Anici-Ica Anici-Ica is tiuely the home of the free and the biavc. Its mothers and wives and daughteis aie the truest and sweetest In the world and Its fathers and husbands and sous aic the biavest and most chivalrous. The American Is a people who love Justice, tiutli and llbeitj ; w ho have conlldence In themselves them-selves and In their country and who aic living a monument to the trucism that men aio capable of governing themselves. A. people with these attributes Is In no Immediate danger of cither raco suicide or political decay. |