It is the lure that shining through the open door of opportunity has led the American boy. poor and portionless. to distinction and honor. yes. even to immortality and undying fame. We have taken a boy from a log hut and made him President. We have taken a hunted refugee from foreign oppression. made him a citizen. and placed him in the Senate Chamber. that from such supreme vantage ground he might so plead the cause of liberty that all in the world might hear. We have taken a paupers child and made him a merchant prince. to show that freedom is the wisest postulate of economics. Washington in his inaugural address declared that " the destiny of the republican model of government." was "justly considered as deeply and perhaps finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." Now. we are thinking that these words were not merely the expression of a conjectured hope. but rather the pronouncement of an inspired and justified belief.