Show LED ALL NATIONS glorious privilege of the united states was to bear the torch that lighted the world along the pathway of liberty HE glittering and sound inc int generalities of natural right ai as krutul ituau choate termed the welling swelling period periods of the leclar ailon on of independence pen dence continue to shine brighter and farther rod and resound louder and deeper la in the eyes and can ears of men after a century and a third have paced passed away time ba almost destroyed he fhe original copy of jeffersons Jeffe riona draft and it haa has been withdrawn from view while a warm swarm of critic critics have haw a vini bently assailed it line by line political science now smiles goldwin smith told us u at ita its weeping sweeping aphorisms A LANDMARK the world aoka upon the bolted tates aa as a pIre clous tripling stripling and we ourselves feel that young ameida but a boy by though a big one in th the family of nations ae As a nationality it Is true oura ours la in in its salad day days beside the aged rationalities of europe in another other sense however we are the elder brother of them all tle the edifice of our gov emment young as it la is really haa has stood longer than any other it la Is la in fact the land mark among the political institutions of the modern world the framework of every european government haa has been changed lace since oun ours waa was set et up in the last quarter of the eighteenth cent centi j y THE ONE POST POST when the father fathers reared cared the fabric of their little republic here in the new world wilderness with the equal ity of men aa as ita its foundation there waa was not a state anywhere chica rested oa on that principle on the con arary it wa was denied by e very lother other nation and it was not put la in practise even here until kyera after it bad been proclaimed 0 te the ideal toward which the infant t republic waa was there W aa no po political lotical equality in any one of the 23 13 original and negro slavery la very continued for 80 30 year years to mock toe the first principle of 0 the declaration of at independence but it stood and it ever stands aa as the guidepost gulde poat on our oaly path toward progress reea we have defiled denied it and turned back de do ried it and tumbled stumbled at every stop orward we a ba hav haa to follow ilk it even hough though it led M W through feer few yen YOM of are |