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Show 1 1 George Washington 1 1! B,-DFi- WILLIAM E. BARTON 1 , llnKln,i who cnerpeB from the , smok. of ti. nevohnl..ii and the fops of our early experiments In self-government , 1 laanah1- figun rfgi - rn j7T i imiiim 1 M hhml not to vv J '" 1,1 en when I i-oni .11 .-il with the BBBBBSSm J ' mwvfj t ' 1 " -" 1 - wt 7' ' " ij 1 . 1 .11 - aft. k. jS win. h LaasWH . mtoNB$ .isaHI ' ' BsBrss- ' sWl " ; - - '&$k5 " tnd tin i.a- UUsm. wMtSawHssfl n dtt asfdi and va ..1 iiih "AUTON ralth 1 Io 10 sec riOW IJ impoverished arid CCjft-, CCjft-, " colonies would fare in tin ir at- I lemid iiicimi Iln msr lves and ea- n oth-ei. oth-ei. and all depended upon a hader whom an the colonies could trust, and who be-; be-; mg Iruyte.l v.uld prove ciUal to (he I trust reposed in him. there was hut one 1 m" toward whom Lh thought of th-American th-American republic turned They had their leader, and had jili.-ad- tried him. and knew he could be trusted ; The tine "The Father "f ui- Court- try, was rather freel . applied in Ko-1 Ko-1 man mstory. Almost any klnsr cr cori-1 cori-1 nui who eared or seemed to can i"i (lie tntercau of- (he state ' called Palci Patriae: iTnc witm n' ''eld I-, mean iha his genius had treated the country The 1 title meant only that he treated his ' 1 jects in a fatherly spirit I Hut in Washington s case the IlUe niant much more than hiIm in a true and noble urn.,, he was. f.ml is. the Fath cr of lt- i v.imii ; He wjin Its Ubcrtie: noon the red flolfl of battle: an.T wh.n he had won wlUi I the he . Mabil hi d In ;i fr. . .inn durable towrnment. we Judge of a man s height by Hie .shadow which he casta. Ai ross the whole period of America s hlslorv as a nation has hc-n flung, like the mantle of a prophet, pro-phet, the shadow .r George Washington. Heroic, dignified, incorruptible, wise in counsel, sound in judgment, fearing Gou anl fearless of man. he :!.md, related to American history a i no other man stand or ever an stand. America must continue to produce great men. and :h "f theiin will deserve more honor than he gets while he Is living liv-ing and quite us much as he tardily oh tains after he is dead. But before them all an 1. in some respects re-spects above them all. (trill towci Hit majestic figure ofUeorgi Washington, uu-Father uu-Father of His Country. |