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Show PEACE AT LAST AFTER TERRIBLE WAR. This is one of the world's historic days. No equally important document was ever signed as that which officially ends the world s j war The fate of more people is involved, greater changes in governments gov-ernments are provided for, more far-reaching reformations are outlined out-lined than ever before were covered by treaty. Today marks the remaking of the map of the world. From this time forward, Europe undergoes radical transformation, and even America's relation to Europe is to be changed. It is the most sweeping reorganization of society, and has no parallel. . u a There is a sense of pride in this achievement among all Americans, ' 1 because the new order of things is in great part of American making, I in that this country laid the foundation on which the treaty was built America gave the fourteen points, and then defined the limitations ol i the new nations, the principles of reparation and entered so largely into the negotiations as to be accepted as the guide. When America was born among the nations of the earth, who could foretell the tremendous part this country was to play in the affairs i of men? . . c r i - In Utah they religiously believe the United States is divinely inspired. in-spired. So potential for good has been the course of this nation that some directing hand above that of mortals seems to determine Us destiny and lift it to pre-eminence in the cause of justice. J MANY CONTRADICTIONS. l! The Chicago News says this is a j world of contradictions and notes: There is a legend to the effect that when Thomas Jefferson sat down to I I write the declaration of independence, I in which it is asserted as a self-evident I truth that all men are created equal, the pen with which he did the writing I waa brought to him on a tray by a ne gro slave. This legend is told with I rest by men who accept the simplicity Ji and sincerity of Jefferson's life as af- I fording valuable lessons in the art of I I living democratically. Big men and big nations exist amid j contradictions. The people of the I J United States fought a bloody civil 'j war over contradictory propositions I whether certain states could be sov- I ereign at the very time that a union of h these self-same states maintained a -1 supereoverelgnty and whether a repub- H Ue. could exist if its government save approval to chattel slavery while assuming as-suming to sponsor individual freedom. oo |