Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1911 — What America Has Proved. [ARTICLE]

What America Has Proved.

America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind —that portion which in Europe is called the laboring or lower class—to raise them to self respect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and great duty of seif government, and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She bolds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to thosq nine-tenths of the human race who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank.—Daniel Webster.