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ization made it possible for any number of separate states 

 to become bonded together. A state whose industry is 

 fishing may be united with one whose sole industry is 

 stock-raising or mining, and the local affairs of each state 

 are managed as it may seem best under the general 

 provision of the constitution guaranteeing to each a re- 

 publican form of government. The elasticity of this sys- 

 tem has been shown and its endurance tested under the 

 most trying circumstances. And today Scotland, Wales, 

 and Ireland are asking and will obtain similar rights in 

 the disposition of their local affairs. 



The power of association of this country as to every 

 branch of the Caucasian race has proved a wonder to the 

 world. The other day I saw an Irish witness upon the 

 stand. His brogue was as rich as if he had not been 

 from Talu an hour, and you could tell that he was an 

 Irishman as well as if he had a map of Ireland on his 

 face. 



The next witness was his son, who was born in Amer- 

 ica of an Irish mother, and raised in Iowa. He looked 

 like an American and spoke like an American, and if he 

 had not had a good old Irish name he might have claimed 

 that his ancestors came over in the Mayflower; and no 

 one would have questioned the truth of the assertion. 



The line, though, must be drawn at the dominant race. 

 The German, the Englishman, the Scotchman, the 

 Frenchman are lost in the second generation, and the 

 peculiar, bright, aggressive, active, native American 

 evolved from the mixture. 



To any one who goes abroad to the old world the first 

 thing he notices on landing again in this country is the 

 bright and educated look of the people. The bright and 

 intelligent looking people that you meet in crowds upon 

 the trains are a source of constant surprise. They are 

 all first class passengers, all well dressed, all apparently 



