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of the American Constitution. An
ether great conflict was necessary to
preserve the Union, sustain the Con-
Stitution and extend the area OF free
Com to include all our inhabitants.
Mat these ideals might continue to
dominate the course of humanity we
e&o:red the World War and helped to
rerpetuates them through it's victori,
Gus conclusion. When America has
drawn the sword, it has always been
the people who have won.
Carrying this chart of political prin-
ciples, our hardy pioneers crossed the
mountain and the plain, extending our
dominionS from ocean to ocean. We
have opened up an enormous expanse
of agriculture, reared great cities, or.
ganized mighty industries and created
an immense commerce. Materially we
have prospeTed. intellectually we have
advanced, morally and spiritually we
have improved. 1t is scarcely too
much to say that all Of this increase
has gone to the benefit of the people
at large.
Need Further Progress.
ain spite of all this progress, we are
still a great distance from what we
would like to be. Too many of our
people are unprovided with the advan-
tages of education. The number who
are lacking in religious devotion is
altogether too large. While we have
reached the highest point in material
prosperity ever achieved, there is
considerable class of unSkilled workers
who have not come into full participa-
ton in the wealth of the Nation. AL
though our Government is sound and
our courts are excellent, too many or
us disregard the obligations of citizen
ship by neglecting to vote, and NO.
lence and crime are altogether too
prevalent. Our delinquencies are suffi-
cient to require us to put forth all our
efforts to work toward their elimina-
ton But we should not be discour-
aged because we are surrounded by
human limitations and handicapped
by human weakness. We are also pos
SCISSORS of human strength. Intelli-
gence, courage, fidelity, character
these also are our heritage and our
mark of the Divine Image.
"Of course it is perfectly apparent
that there is sufficient work still to
he done and sufficient progress yet to
be made to give ample opportunity to
the most ambitious. But while very
large emphasis is entitled to be placed
on our imperfection. after all it is the
progress we have made which is of
chief significance. The conclusion
that our institutions are sound, that
our social system is correct. has been
demonstrated beyond question by our
experience 1t is necessary that this
should be known and properly appreci-
ated. Unless it continues to be the
public conviction. we are likely to
fall a more easy prey to the advocates
of false economic. political and So
cial doctrines. 1t is always very easy
to promise everything. 1t is SOM
times difficult to deliver anything. In
our political and economic life there
will always be those who are lavish
with unwarranted criticism and we'll
supplied with false hopes. 1t is
always well to remember that Amer
lean institutions have stood the test of
experience. They do not profess to
promise everything, but to commu-
mites and to individuals who have been |
content to live by them they have !
never failed in. their satisfactions and /
rewards Here industry can find en- |
ployment, thrift can amass a compe- I
tency. and square dealing is assured |
of justice.