Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1920 — THE SHRINES OF GOVERNMENT [ARTICLE]

THE SHRINES OF GOVERNMENT

“The shrines of government are in the communities of the land.” In this one sentence, fresh from his heart and*brain, Governor Cox shows more real Americanism, more sympathy with the visions and Ideals of our country, than can be found in all the deliberate utterances and calculated phrases Senator Harding ever wrote or spoke. It is In the communities of land —the small country communities as well as in the great metropolitan cities —that the shrines of government, the altars of patriotism, the councils of Americanism, are found.* It is not in great organizations, not in theatrical leagues or political clubs that the foundations of our nation are laid. It is in the quiet homes, on farms, in the villages and towns, as well as in cities, that the broad and deep basis of the fabric of our nation is laid.