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Show H oun suite PATH H , .rrom President-Hied Harding's Armistice Day Speech m ill DrowiiBvIUo, Texas. H These floldlt'ia or the republic, llko their fath- H crs, believe In an America of civil and human and H religious liberty; they bellovo In an Amcrca of Amer- H lcijn Ideals. They believe In America first, for It Is H In America that their hopes and aspirations center. H They believe It Is only morning In tho life of the rc- H public and they want to look forward to tho sur- H passing noonday of national lire, when this leading H republic shall bo tho foremost nationality among tho m nations of tho earth. These men bollevo that tho ' H nation worth fighting for Is good to live In and good H to live for, and, having i ought tho nilraclo of dovcl- H opment In a century and a third, It Is destined to H write tho supremo triumph In human progress. H I bcllcvo with them and with you, that our sure H path Is tho American path, I do not bellovo the wis- I H dom of Washington and Jefferson and Hamilton Is to ( H bo ignoied nor the chivalry of Leo or tho magnanl- H mlty of Grant Is to bo forgotten. Nor can tho su- H premo belief of Lincoln In union and nationality bo H foigotten or the outstanding Americanism of Ilooso- ' M'll fall to stir our hearts, gH B Hero Is popular government In lis most depend- B nblo development. Hero Is a iepibllc whoso heart B Is tight. Hero Is a land of limitless opportunity, m beckoning men to rowards. Here Is a people united H now, nglow with tho national spirit, and wo shall cling to the foundatllns and make a strong Amreica, a land H of safety at homo and an Insplilng example to all K" tho world. I say wo aio only In tho mom of natlomi life. H "Who dares to prophesy In (luaflliigthe cup of optimism B what tho future has in stoic? We have only to go B on, Independent and fiee, untrammclcd and unmort- B gaged to write the supiemo fulfillment. Wo chooso BBB no aloofness, wo shirk no obligation, vto forcsako no friends. We never have, wo never will. Dut wc built In nationality, and wo do not mean to surrender it. Wo crnvo fraternity, wo wish amicable relations everywhere; ev-erywhere; wo offer peace and chooso to promote it, hut wo domand our freedom and our own America. m m R That was a deserved compliment Qopernor Cox and Tom Taggorl paid Mississippi by going there to hunt after election. There'll a good old stato where tho Democratic politicians don't caro what the sentiment senti-ment Is, Jii3t so thoy can wrlto tho election laws and count tho votes'. fc Pa fc The .able correspondents who seriously discussed tho "drift to Cox" during tho last two weeks of tho campalyn aro now obligingly fitting President-elect Harding' out with a cabinet and leaguo of nations policy. ' '-. p R P ' -. Champ Clark says ho Is going to run against Senator Ileed for ro-electlon two years, hence. The issuo will bo that neither ono or them believed In tho Wilson league, but Champ was too good a Dem-ocrat Dem-ocrat to admit It in public ni ft n If Wilson had takfn the stump Harding and Coolldgo would probably have can led oyety state In tho union. pi fa fa t Senator Harding's vision of tho great field for American usefulness In America Is that of. a statesman states-man who Is not so Inlent on the star's that ho Ignores I x 1-1 flip Jewels that lleabout him. A united hemisphere, j .With ,lts peoples pursuing their respective paths to ! prosperity and happiness under conditions of undisturbed undis-turbed peace, Is an ambition worth striving for. ' ft ft Pa The only wonder la that nobody sold tho Atlantic Ocean to tho Shipping Hoard. ' 15 R R . Strange robbers, thoc, who took a $400,000 pcail necklace and left tho wlno cellar undlstuibed. n a ft Thank Cod for Wilson; ho kept us out of Cox. pa ft n |