Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — What Webster Sald. [ARTICLE]

What Webster Sald.

America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind—the laboring or lower class—to raise them to self-respect, to make them competent and to act a part in. the great right and the great duty off self-government; and she has proved that .this may be done by education and t)ie diffusion of knowledge. She holds out’an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those nine-tenths off the human race who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary TWfc —Daniel Webster. ~ '