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Show For Monument to Denton. Tho Commercial club of Kansas City has asked tho Missouri legislature legisla-ture to appropriate $20,000 for a statue of Thomas H. Benton, to bo elected In Kansas City, as near as possible to tho spot where Benton made his famous prophecy, in 1850, that this continent would bo bound together by bands of Iron, nnd that our products would bo carrlod to feed the Innumerable millions of tho Orient Ori-ent Pointing with outstretched band toward the setting sun ho said: "There Is the East; thoro Is the road to India." |