The Prescott daily news., 1908-10-21
W. (. I. U COLUMN.

Reports continue to come in showing a strong and decided movement a.Ong all lines of pol itica,, physical and spiritual re- form, thus showing the levening influence of the White Gospe, until it seems that the years are rich w,tn the flowers of a splendid civilization. this beaut- iful world, gorgeous with phy- sical beauty has at last like Me dine found her soul, and has en- erged from the grosser pleasures of mater ism into the clear. pure light of the twentieth cen tury, and from her glittering net work of electricity the wires jingle and throb with the vital messages of progress in all lands
 Turkey has at last aroused herself from her long sleep. shook off her ethargy, and with the Pen that is mightier than the sword given her people con- stitutiOn rich in promise, and backed by the vigOr and the pro gressive spirit of her young men. and the strength and beauty of her awakened wOmanhood.
 Germany, the land of Rhyme wine fOaming beer and due,s. will present to the next session a resolution to abolish the Sys- tenn of bar maids in all saloous and beer gardens. As this resolu- tiOn was drawn up and will be presented by the Kaiser it will soon become a fixed law, and thereby eievating tho woman hood Of that country above the debasing influences of such re- sorts.
 China with her s.anting eyes is beginning to see straight. The special friend and leader of the masses, is a live progressive re- former. Building up reform or ganizations among the influent- ial Chinese throughout the world instructing young men in his ideas, everywhere the idol of the young Chinese.
 He has always kept in touch with the young emperor, and in the event of the Dowager Em- press death Kang Yer Wei may be lifted in a day to the most influential position in the larg- est and oldest of the family of nations. Listen what Japan says through her press.
 "In every country the future heroes will be artizans. The spr- it of the time demands this. In former times they used to talk of the great Generals, the great Diplomats. That era is past. To day it is intelligence that gov erns the world
 England with her aggressive spirit, her bull dog tenacity has her eyes on some enervating GUS toms brought from her misty past, and to see a demOraliZing agent within the borders of her own green Is,e, is to rOut it out. See a wrong, right it.
 Last and most glorious of all the family of Nations is our dear beautiful America 1 !
 The iand of the free.
 The home of the brave
 She has a ready unfurled the banner of Christ. and as the white folds catch the sunshine and the winds of heaven breathe on it, the red cross g.OWs with life. and the inscription By this sign we conquer has inspi red State after State to wheel in- to line march in sublime strength, and wage a successful. battle of ballots against those great wrongs that the great search light of modern thought has laid bare. She has resolved that her children snail be free and protected and laws made and enforced that will make her young Americans instead of weak drawfed, in mind and body from hard and constant labor In factories and mines. or crush ed beneath the terrible judgment Of the liquor license system grow strong and vigorous bright eyed and sturdy limbed, filling the school houses and learning those great fundamental truths that underlie all good govern ment. and growing into men and women of such bone and sinew lofty ideals and grand achieve ments and true patriotism tthat she will maintain her place at tie head of all the nations of the wor'G Queen of land and Sea
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