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States that are there growing by leaps and bounds. 

 The greater the share they have in directing the 

 national life, the better it will be for all of us. 



I do not for a moment mean that mistakes will 

 not be committed in every section of the country; 

 they certainly will be, and in whatever section they 

 are committed it will be our duty to protest against 

 them, and to try to overthrow those who are respon 

 sible for them : but I do mean to say that in the long 

 run each section is going to find that its welfare, 

 instead of being antagonistic to, is indissolubly 

 bound up in, the welfare of other sections; and the 

 growth of means of communication, the growth of 

 education in its highest and finest sense, means the 

 growth in the sense of solidarity throughout the 

 country, in the feeling of patriotic pride of each 

 American in the deeds of all other Americans of 

 pride in the past history and present and future 

 greatness of the whole country. 



Nobody is interested in the fact that Dewey 

 comes from Vermont, Hobson from Alabama, or 

 Funston from Kansas. If all three came from the 

 same county it would make no difference to us. 

 They are Americans, and every American has an 

 equal right to challenge his share of glory in their 

 deeds. As we read of the famous feats of our army 

 in the Philippines, it matters nothing to us whether 

 the regiments come from Oregon, Idaho, Califor- 



