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Show ONE PROOF OF VICTORY. Take up a bound volume of a newspaper news-paper worth while, in a year from a decade to two decades gone and scan It through. Then, If the uplift of tho human race interests you, says the Butte Inter-ountaln, go and celebrate. There Is scarcely a branch of American Ameri-can affairs in which wo have not progressed pro-gressed rapidly. Strange to relate, only our literature and art appears to have retrograded. Our stage is inferior in-ferior to the old stage and the stuff we read Is not so good, Judging from tho moral standpoint But in religion, In economics, In politics, In business what an advance! ad-vance! Twenty years ago men were enduring persecution for advocacy ot doctrines now upon the statute books of state and nation. Twenty years ago, a dormant church had not conceived con-ceived reforms upon which Catholic and protestant, if unofficially, today co-operate. Twenty years ago the standard of national honesty was so low that to write the truth about It before the generation concerned has passed away would cause a storm ot opposition. As in everything else, the Americans have leaped forward, along moral and humanitarian lines. It is good to remember this. There are times when, overwhelmed by the" dally chronology of crime and vlco, excusable despair seizes the boldest. But the facts are plain and Indubitable. Never had a patriot, In any land, more cause for rejoicing. It is not too much to hope that those problems which have overturned other republics may be solved by this without bloodshed blood-shed and that we may leave to posterity pos-terity an inspiring example of tho power of high Inspirations. |