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Show Not a Meaningless Document. It Is the fashion among some today to belittle the Declaration of. Independence Inde-pendence as a meaningless document, as a mere gesture which those who framed and signed It did not Intend to be followed with deeds. Nothing Is more false. Nor Is It true that In the essentials the evolution of the United States has departed from the Ideal that was in that paper given expression. expres-sion. Those who signed the Declaration Declara-tion knew perfectly well that they could not create a nation by a mere stroke of the pen nnd were aware of the tremendous difficulties ahead, not merely those of liberation, but those of construction and organization. They knew that they were but taking tho first step nnd that in thv long Journey there would be departures from the straight path. |