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Show IT CO.VCKKVS ALL ' The man, woman or minor who is .Kit concerned as to ttie outcome 01 ihe present struggle is to be pitied ind enlightened. He or she is really unconcerned through ignorance. They have failed entirely to grasp the true inwardness of the situation confronting us as a people. Let us suppose that the history of our country were to end with the present, genei anon. cues anj uuc imagine that our statesmen would 'n materially interested in the settlement set-tlement of the questions in dispute? Hardly. Naturally, then, It is mainly the future of the country that is to be considered. What that FUTURE to be will depend upon OUR ACTION AC-TION NOW. It is to the credit of the American people that they have always had a clear vision of the duty of the present pres-ent generation to posterity. That vision was responsible for the Revolutionary Revo-lutionary war. It was the stimulus in the war of 1812. And when the Mexican question assumed grave proportions pro-portions the same thought was at the fore in the national mind. Not so much the interest of our own posterity pos-terity as that of our fellow man was the stimulus in the brush with Spain. Hut throughout her whole life this-country this-country has never failed to place the true interests of posterity before present ease and comfort. What can be said, then, of the young man or woman who is not concerned over the outcome of this struggle? That they have no concern con-cern for the best interests of then own. Present ease and comfort weighs more with them than the future fu-ture of their children, or of the race in general. No nation of people can ever come into their own until present can be subordinated to future. No present is ever entirely what it should or could be. By the sacrifice of the present we stand a chance of realizing realiz-ing on the future. If all else is to be subordinated to the present, there is every possibility of there being nc future worthy of the name. |