Those Presidents were bility of such rare development. authorized to do this by legislation enacted by Democratic Con- So too. I fancy. the statesman of the present day will project gresses. And if the people of Iowa. who were emigrants from his visionit may be a hundred yearsinto the futre. If he the older Statesmen who had been accustomed all their lives does. what will he see? Those 10.000.000 people now inhabiting and for generations to selfgovernmentfamiliar with legisla- a scarcely cultivated area may then be 50.000.00050.000.000 tion. with the preparation and drafting of laws and their execu- people touched by the magic wand of civilization50.000.000 peotionif thoso men. according to the Democrats of that period. ple as they then may be when they are full of the spirit of this were not capable of selfgovernment. how much less are these civilization. when they have learned to appreciate liberty. to people away out in the Philippine Islands. who have been the know what liberty is. to distinguish between liberty and license. creatures of oppression all their lives. who have no familiarity when they have learned the lesson of industry and thrift. when with goternment or legislationhow much less are they fitted they have acquired and multiplied their powers for accuufor selfgovernment? lating wealth by the machinery that the genius of the AmeriI have been somewhat perplexed by the varying and discordant can people has given them and to which their genius will have statements of gentlemen.
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