Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Their Fear Not Realized. [ARTICLE]

Their Fear Not Realized.

The great fear of those whose act here in Philadelphia 140 years ago made this a nation was that the state would not remain a nation, a writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger says. History has proved in their case the falsity of the epigram: “The thing you fear will get you.” What they feared never happened. We are a young country, but a very old government, as governments go. Call the roll of the nations and you will see that a majority of them are babies beside the United States. Japan’s present imperial regimen is not half a century old. The house of Hohenzollern is fairly ancient, but the German empire is not yet fifty and the French republic Is no older. Austria and Hungary were yoked together long after Franklin told the signers of the Declaration of Independence they must all hang together or be hanged separately. kingdom is not half so old as the United States. Portugal’s republic is a thing too young to vote, and the Chinese republic has not yet been weaned. All the score of Central and South American republics are much younger than is this greatest of world republics. * Nearly half the human race has now copied that lesson which was announced by the Liberty bell.