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questions which battle can never settle. God grant 

 that we have come to a turning of the ways where 

 the life of men, women and children, no matter 

 how humble their station, shall stand higher in value 

 than the profits of any commercial venture. God 

 grant that we will soon be firm enough to declare 

 that a business which can only live by sacrificing 

 the health and strength of the workers must be 

 counted an unprofitable business, and be allowed to 

 cease. God grant finally that the American people 

 may learn from the past to guard against a like fate 

 in the future ; that here may be the people whose 

 strength, intelligence and uprightness shall lead the 

 world; not for the sake of exceeding the world, but 

 with the high mission of setting to the world an ex- 

 ample of what can come to a vigorous, free and God- 

 fearing people. 



In the early history of the evolution of man the 

 struggle almost always concerns the individual. 

 Gradually the family comes to be the fuller unit. 

 Only that is success which leads to the success of 

 this higher group. After a time the family broadens 

 to the tribe, and then the tribe to the nation. The 

 evolution of social institutions is at present going 

 on at an enormously rapid rate. Throughout the civ- 

 ilized world democracy is coming to its own. Even 

 where the form of monarchy still prevails, the sub- 



