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Show Discovering Columbus. During a recent campaign a Tammany Tam-many leader on the East side, a self-made self-made man and one not entirely completed com-pleted yet in some parts, was addressing address-ing a mass meeting of Italian-born voters on behalf of his party's ticket. "Gintlemen and fellow citizens," he began, "I deem it an honor to be permitted per-mitted to address you upon the issues of the day. I have always had a deep admiration for your native land. I vlnerate the mlmory of that great, that noble, Eyetallan who was the original discoverer of this here land of ours. "Why, gintlemen, at me mother's knee I was taught to sing that insplrlu' song, 'Columbus, the Jim of the Ocean !' " Whereupon there was loud applause. -Saturday Evening 1'ost. |