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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



America 

 Seen as De- 

 ciding Factor 

 in the War 



America's 

 Greatness 

 Recognized 

 Abroad 



Who lets his country die, lets all things die, 

 And all things dying, curse him." 



If these words, written on the monument of Benjamin H. 

 Hill, in Atlanta, Georgia, be true, then it is incumbent upon us, 

 as the sons of noble American sires, to put our shoulders to the 

 wheel to develop the great American empire that we have at our 

 disposal today. I have no fear of the result of this present Euro- 

 pean War. I believe the entrance of the United States is the de- 

 ciding factor in the scale of this War. I have always believed 

 in the prophecy shown in the Book of Revelations, and I think it 

 is literally true — in the Book of Revelations we read : "A woman 

 shall go forth .in a wilderness and upon a barren rock shall give 

 birth to a child, and that child shall one day rule the world." 

 In 1620, our forefathers, driven by constitutional oppression, left 

 Mother England in the Mayflower. On December 20, 1620, that 

 Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock, and there, on a barren rock, 

 'in the wilderness of North America, was born the child of these 

 United States ; and who, in this intelligent and patriotic audience 

 before me today, doubts for one moment that that child today 

 rules the world? (Applause.) 



"Not for our own land is Freedom's flag unfurled, 

 but for world." 



Aside from our economic development, in which we cannot 

 compare with either Germany, France or England, the United 

 States today has the most remarkable form of government on the 

 face of the globe. Mr. Gladstone, England's greatest statesman, 

 once said that the American Constitution was the most remark- 

 able document that ever sprung from the brain of man. 



"America takes but to give again. 



As the sea returns her water in rain. 



So she gathers her seed from the haunted of every crown and 



creed. 

 Her Germany dwells by the gentler Rhine, 

 Her Ireland sees the old sunburst shine, 

 Her Norway still clings to the mountain pines ; 

 And broad-based under all is England's broken-hearted mood, 

 As rich in fortitude as ever went from her island wall. 

 Fused into her candid light. 

 All races here to one great race unite. 



