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 The 
 Typical American 
 
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 Charles Edward Locke 
 
 Author of " Freedom's Next War 
 FOR Humanity" 
 
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 COPYRIGHT, 1902, 
 CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE 
 
The Typical American 
 
"While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er 
 Shall sink while there's an echo left to air." 
 
 — Byron. 
 
 ** There is scarcely a man whose name is connected 
 with the early colonization of North America that is 
 not noble and memorable. There was the brilliant and 
 unhappy Raleigh. There was Captain John Smith, a 
 man with the soul of a Crusader. There was William 
 Penn, ever acting in the spirit of his own conviction 
 that the weak, the just, the pious, the devout are all of 
 one religion. There was Bradford, the stern governor. 
 There was Oglethorpe, with ' his strong benevolence of 
 soul.' There was the hero of the Indian Wars, Miles 
 Standish. There was Roger Williams, the founder of 
 Providence. There were Winthrop and Endicott, the 
 worthy founders of worthy lines." — Farrar. 
 
 * ' I was born an American ; I live an American ; I 
 shall die an American." —Webster. 
 
The 
 Typical American 
 
 HAVING the need in the Nation of men 
 good and true to fight our country's 
 battles and solve our country's problems, let us 
 stop long enough to contemplate the career of 
 an ideal American citizen. Mazzini, in his 
 brilliant address to the young men of Italy, 
 said: "Love, love and venerate the ideal. The 
 ideal is the Word of God." 
 
 It has often been asked, ''What made Wash- 
 ington great?" After the centennial of the death 
 of Washington, we are viewing the ''father of 
 his country" through a perspective of one hun- 
 dred years. It has been said that some of his 
 contemporaries were at a loss to account for the 
 greatness of Washington ; it is because the world 
 does not know its greatest men. Seven cities 
 contend for Homer dead, through which the liv- 
 ing Homer begged his bread. By a cruel irony 
 of fate, a stupid humanity has persecuted and 
 despised and denoimced and killed those truly 
 5 
 
6 George Washington 
 
 great men whom a succeeding generation has 
 sainted and adored and deified. This was less 
 true of Washington than of many who have 
 served their fellow-men. 
 
 *'Of all great men, Washington was the most 
 virtuous," says Guizot; and Green, who was as- 
 sociated with brilliant actors in the history of 
 nations, declares: "No nobler figure ever stood 
 in the forefront of a nation's hfe." Washington 
 Irving writes: 'The character of Washington 
 possesses fewer inequalities and a rarer union of 
 virtues than perhaps ever fell to the lot of one 
 man." It was a generous encomium that fell 
 from the lips of that great Englishman, Lord 
 Brougham: "It will be the duty of the historian 
 and sage in all ages to let no occasion pass 
 of commemorating this illustrious man." And 
 long ago we have made Daniel Webster's words 
 our own: "America has furnished to the world 
 the character of Washington. If our American 
 institutions had done nothing else, that alone 
 would have entitled them to the respect of man- 
 kind." 
 
 Yes, Washington was a great man! He was 
 a strong, brave, modest, righteous, unswerving, 
 and absolutely uncompromising nobleman. He 
 was a well-bred, well-trained, courteous Christian 
 chevalier and gentleman. He was great, not by 
 
The Typical American 7 
 
 caprice or accident or environment, but because 
 of the nobility of his superb character. Such 
 a man is destined to be great whenever he ap- 
 pears. Such men make epochs; if the age is 
 not ready for them, they build their own en- 
 vironment and do their work. We agree with 
 Phillips Brooks, "The more we see of events, the 
 less we come to believe in any fate or destiny 
 except the destiny of character." 
 
 The towering grandeur of Washington was 
 not the result of circumstances especially for- 
 tuitous. He was not hurried to an eminence of 
 fame by inexorable fate. He was what he was, 
 and accomplished what he did because of his 
 honor, his fitness, his industry, and his piety; 
 in one word, because of his character. Char- 
 acters like his can not be suppressed; they chal- 
 lenge attention, and invariably achieve. It is 
 not one Washington in a hundred years that 
 the Nation needs, but a hundred Washingtons 
 in one year! 
 
 The character of Washington was the product 
 of two conspicuous qualities. The first was his 
 love of country. Washington had a genius for 
 patriotism. He was a brave soldier, and be- 
 came a masterful strategist. Frederick the Great 
 pronounced his generalship on the Delaware 
 as *'the most brilliant achievement recorded in 
 
8 George Washington 
 
 military annals," and, in sending a sword to 
 Washington, inscribed the following extraordi- 
 nary words: *Trom the oldest general in Europe 
 to the greatest general in the world." Wash- 
 insrton was a statesman, an intuitive statesman. 
 He had the prophetic sense, and was a man of 
 profound wisdom. Patrick Henry, when asked 
 who was the greatest man in the First Con- 
 tinental Congress, said: "If you speak of solid 
 information and sound judgment. Colonel Wash- 
 ington was unquestionably the greatest man on 
 that floor." 
 
 Washington was a statesman with a prophetic 
 instinct. All great statesmen must be seers. 
 Washington was a seer. That serious counte- 
 nance, those serene eyes looked into the future 
 with marvelously clear vision. He participated 
 in the framing of those memorable documents 
 that were forwarded by the First Continental 
 Congress to England, and of which Lord 
 Chatham declared in Parliament: "When your 
 lordships look at the papers transmitted to us 
 from America, when you consider their decency, 
 firmness, and wisdom, you can not but respect 
 their cause, and wish to make it your own. For 
 myself, I must declare and avow that in all my 
 reading and observation — and it has been my 
 favorite study: I have read Thucydides and have 
 
The Typical American 9 
 
 studied and admired the master statesmen of 
 the world — that for soHdity of reasoning, force 
 of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under 
 such a complication of difficult circumstances, 
 no nation or body of men can stand in prefer- 
 ence to the General Congress at Philadelphia." 
 
 A study of Washington's State papers as 
 President of the United States further reveals 
 his character as an astute and far-seeing states- 
 man. His Farewell Address is compact with 
 wise counsels to his wide constituency, and is 
 one of the freshest and most apropos discussions 
 to be studied by those who are bearing the bur- 
 dens of government in these days of our ex- 
 panding opportunities as a Nation. It is easy 
 for us to agree with Bancroft that "but for 
 Washington the country could not have achieved 
 its independence; but for him it could not have 
 formed its union; and now but for him it could 
 not set the Government in successful motion." 
 
 The other quality that entered into the 
 colossal strength of Washington's character was 
 his devotion to God. He was a man of prayer. 
 From the carnage of Braddock's field to his 
 farewell words to the people of the Nation, his 
 dependence and faith in God were often ex- 
 pressed. He was an active and consistent 
 Churchman. After Braddock's defeat and death, 
 
lO George Washington 
 
 Washington wrote to his brother that in this 
 fearful battle he had four bullet-holes in his 
 coat and two horses were shot under him, but 
 **by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence 
 I have been protected beyond all human prob- 
 ability or expectation." At the First Continental 
 Congress, while others stood when the chaplain 
 led in prayer, he knelt. At \^alley Forge he 
 won the victory first on his knees under the trees. 
 In his first Inaugural Address he solemnly de- 
 clares : '^No people can be bound to acknowledge 
 and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts 
 the affairs of men more than the people of the 
 United States. Every step by which they have 
 advanced to the character of an independent 
 Nation seems to have been distinguished by some 
 token of providential agency." In those memo- 
 rable utterances, before seeking for the last time 
 the quiet seclusion of his Mount Vernon home, 
 he spoke like an Isaiah when he said: ''Of all 
 the dispositions and habits which lead to po- 
 litical prosperity, religion and morality are in- 
 dispensable supports. And let us with caution 
 indulge the supposition that morality can be 
 maintained without religion. Reason and ex- 
 perience both forbid us to expect that national 
 morality can prevail in exclusion of religious 
 principle. Can it be that Providence has not 
 
The Typical American ii 
 
 connected the permanent felicity of a nation with 
 its virtue?" 
 
 The Father of His Country received his early 
 training from his devoted mother. He was a 
 mother-made man. It was her loving remon- 
 strance which prevented him from becoming a 
 midshipman in his boyhood, and her counsels 
 and prayers and love sustained him in his man- 
 hood. He nobly recognized her influence when 
 he said, "All I am I owe to my mother!" Yon- 
 der glistening monument, as it leans against the 
 eastern sky, is a beautiful memorial to a mother's 
 infinite patience and perfect love! It is Wash- 
 ington's monument — Mary Washington's monu- 
 ment! His father having died when Washington 
 was but a lad of eleven years, his entire training 
 was received from his mother. How faithfully 
 she discharged that solemn trust must be read 
 in the radiant pages of our Republic's history. 
 Mary Washington gathered her children about 
 her, and prayed with them. She read to them 
 daily from the Bible, and made them familiar 
 with the helpful utterances of great writers. 
 When God would make a great man, he gives 
 him first a great mother! All good mothers are 
 great mothers! Your mother, noble princess, 
 perhaps unknown beyond the humble home and 
 narrow circle of a few admiring friends, was a 
 
12 George Washington 
 
 great mother, and, though unknown to fame, 
 wears a royal diadem jeweled by God's own 
 artificers, because she gave to the Father her 
 best service, and taught her family to give to 
 God their truest love. If a generation of mothers 
 was necessary for Napoleon's hysterical empire, 
 mothers, devoted mothers, mothers like Mary 
 Washington, are absolute and indispensable fac- 
 tors in our Republic. In a Government ''of the 
 people, for the people, by the people," the 
 mothers hold the destiny of the Nation in their 
 control; "the hand that rocks the cradle moves 
 the world ;" the mothers are the country's states- 
 men! 
 
 Washington combined religion and patriot- 
 ism in an unsullied character that shall grow 
 brighter and be better appreciated with increas- 
 ing ages. 
 
 He was an imperial republican, who had sub- 
 lime faith in a democracy, and who could spurn 
 the suggestion to make himself a king. He was 
 great because he was not ambitious — because he 
 recognized the Divine guidance. He was a God- 
 man — a believer in the Deityship of Jesus 
 Christ, on whom a mighty epoch was turning. 
 
 With George Washington contrast the career 
 of the brief, brilliant, delusive Bonaparte. In 
 his early life Napoleon seemed to be reHgious. 
 
The Typical American 13 
 
 I have indulged the thought that the great Cor- 
 sican came into the drama of human history to 
 promote its highest purposes. The most ardent 
 imagination can not dream of the vast progress 
 which might have been made for civiHzation if 
 Napoleon had followed his God as humbly and 
 obediently in Europe as did Washington in 
 America. But Napoleon broke with God, and 
 languished in exile. "Napoleon victor at 
 Waterloo did not harmonize with the law of 
 the nineteenth century." Men can not long suc- 
 cessfully combat the Divine purpose in the age 
 in which they live. The weapons of his early 
 triumphs became soon the instruments of his 
 disastrous defeat, and Napoleon is now but a 
 pathetic episode in the history of a century. 
 
 But Washington, unlike his daring contem- 
 porary, heard the Divine voice and was true to 
 the higher call. He recognized his dependency 
 upon his God, and, forgetting himself, sought to 
 obey his Maker and fulfill the plans of the Father 
 of Nations so far as those purposes involved 
 man's little enterprises; and Washington has 
 won for himself imperishable fame that will in- 
 crease in brightness until all things finite shall 
 blend their glory into the radiance of the Infinite. 
 From the lofty altitude of a stainless life, sur- 
 rounded with the love and gratitude of a mighty 
 
14 George Washington 
 
 people, with the serene words, "It is well," fall- 
 ing from his lips, Washington was translated. 
 
 In the language of Winthrop at the laying 
 of the corner-stone of the Washington monu- 
 ment: "The Republic may perish; the wide arch 
 of our raised union may fall; star by star its 
 glories may expire ; stone after stone its columns 
 and its capitol may molder and crumble; all 
 other names which adorn its annals may be for- 
 gotten; but as long as human hearts shall any- 
 where pant, or human tongue shall anywhere 
 plead for a sure, rational, constitutional liberty, 
 those hearts shall enshrine the memory and those 
 tongues shall prolong the fame of George Wash- 
 ington." 
 
 **High poised example of great duties done, 
 Modest, yet firm as nature's self; unblamed. 
 Saved by the men his noble temper shamed. 
 Broad-minded, high souled, there is but one 
 Who was all this and ours and all men's — Washington." 
 
 Let us go to his tomb at Mount Vernon; a 
 holy shrine for patriots to ofifer themselves in 
 full consecration to the service of their God and 
 their country. He was "first in peace, first in 
 war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 
 And with such a noble example will we not be 
 
The Typical American 15 
 
 ready to answer God's command and our 
 country's call? 
 
 "All must own the fatherhood of him. 
 Whose glory time can never dim, 
 All who can reckon Freedom's worth, 
 Would write across this whole broad earth, 
 With pen dipped in the sun, 
 The magic name of Washington." 
 
America s Nezv Mission 
 and Oppoi^hmity 
 
"The sword, after all, is but a hideous flash in the 
 darkness ; right is an eternal lay." —Victor Hugo. 
 
 ** I do not know why, in the year 1 899, this Republic 
 has unexpectedly had placed before it mighty problems 
 which it must face and meet. They have come and are 
 here, and they could not be kept away. Many who 
 were impatient for the conflict a year ago, apparently 
 heedless of its larger results, are the first to cry out 
 against the far-reaching consequences of their own acts. 
 Those of us who dreaded war most, and whose every 
 effort was directed to prevent it, had fears of new and 
 grave problems which might follow its inauguration. 
 The evolution of events, which no man could control, 
 has brought these problems upon us. The Philippines, 
 like Cuba and Porto Rico, were intrusted to our hands 
 by the providence of God. It is a trust we have not 
 sought. It is a trust from which we will not flinch." 
 
 — Mc Kin LEV. 
 
 ♦'America is only another name for opportunity. 
 is God's final effort in behalf of the human race." 
 
 —Emerson. 
 
America's New Mission 
 and Opportunity 
 
 Al rE must hasten to wage an internal war 
 ^ ^ against vice and oppression, for already 
 the God of nations is sending America forth upon 
 a new mission, and thrusting new responsibilities 
 upon Church and State. 
 
 Imbued with the sublime idea of liberty, our 
 forefathers left their native land and braved the 
 dangers of a turbulent sea and met the attacks 
 of frenzied savages. Then followed the Colonial 
 and Constitutional periods. War might have 
 been avoided if it had not been for a stupid king 
 and an imbecile foreign policy. The long Revo- 
 lutionary struggle resulted in the permanent es- 
 tablishment of the foundations of liberty upon the 
 shores of this new country. 
 
 Then there came the internal strife, the spirit 
 
 of liberty demanding universal acceptance in the 
 
 Nation. It was the application to ourselves of 
 
 the same principle, for the recognition of which 
 
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20 America's New Mission 
 
 by the mother country we had successfully 
 fought a great war. In this so-called "land of 
 the free and home of the brave" there must be 
 unity and solidarity. Shall we proclaim our- 
 selves free to the world, and inconsistently permit 
 the institution of human slavery to disgrace and 
 befoul the Republic? Shall America, after gain- 
 ing a great victory for liberty over a foreign 
 country, suffer disintegration and decline, be- 
 cause of internal disease which it was not able to 
 expel or resist? The war of the sixties was, 
 therefore, the logical sequence of the landing of 
 the Mayflower. 
 
 During the four decades that have passed 
 since the surrender at Appomattox, our Nation 
 has been busy developing the superstructures 
 of liberty and inculcating the broadest principles 
 of freedom; and, satisfied with our own broad 
 land, we did not dream of any larger mission. 
 Suddenly we found ourselves in the new role of 
 defender and propagator of liberty. Until two 
 years since our obligations were bounded by two 
 great oceans, and we did not conceive it to be 
 our duty to spread the mystic influence of free- 
 dom beyond the borders of our own possessions. 
 But when, a few months ago, there came from 
 a beleaguered people, hardly a hundred miles off 
 our Eastern coast, a pleading cry, ''Come over 
 
America's New Mission 21 
 
 and help us;" and when it was known that thou- 
 sands of human beings were dying of starvation 
 on account of the cruelty and incompetency of an 
 emasculated government, after days of hesitancy 
 and wondering whether the Stars and Stripes 
 had any right to interfere, America gallantly 
 leaped the narrow dividing sea, and, as a defender 
 of liberty brought freedom tO' an abused and 
 grateful people. It was a war for humanity, and 
 introduced America to its new^ part in the drama 
 of nations as a propagandist of liberty. The 
 fervent utterances of Henry Clay are as appro- 
 priate to present obligations as if they were 
 spoken yesterday: "I am no propagandist. I 
 would not seek to force upon other nations our 
 principles and our liberty if they do not want 
 them. But if an abused and oppressed people 
 will their freedom; if they seek to establish it, 
 we have a right as a sovereign power to notice 
 the fact, and tO' act as circumstances and our in- 
 terests require. I will say in the language of the 
 venerated Father of my Country: 'Born in a land 
 of liberty, my anxious recollections, my sympa- 
 thetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresist- 
 ibly excited whensoever in any country I see an 
 oppressed nation unfurl the banner of freedom.' " 
 The victory in the war with Spain thrust new 
 and unexpected burdens and privileges upon us 
 
22 America's New Mission 
 
 as a Nation. As a natural sequence of the war, 
 as l(5gical as the war itself, there came into our 
 possession the archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. 
 The acquisition of the Philippines, with their 
 eight millions of semi-pagan population, seemed 
 a part of the war for humanity. Dewey's re- 
 markable victory was anticipated. Spain had 
 shown herself unworthy and unable to give a 
 sufficient government to these islands; and there 
 was nothing left for our country but to become 
 the guardians of these neglected and oppressed 
 people. As we receive the honors of that brief 
 war, so we should not be unwilling to carry the 
 burdens which that victory has laid upon our 
 shoulders. 
 
 As exponents of liberty we have always be- 
 lieved in expanding our territory. During the 
 Administration of President Jefferson, at an ex- 
 penditure of $15,000,000, that vast area then 
 known as Louisiana, that is bounded by the 
 Mississippi and the Gulf, and reaching to the 
 Rockies on the west and to British America on 
 the north, was purchased. Later, Florida and 
 California and Oregon and Alaska were also ac- 
 quired. We have been expansionists from the 
 beginning; it is the genius of our Republic be- 
 cause it is the genius of growth. Whatever has 
 life expands; the blade, the stalk, the oak; and if 
 
America's New Mission 23 
 
 nations enjoy healthful growth, they must ex- 
 pand by the very laws of their being. In 1800 
 Spain owned nearly all of this hemisphere; but 
 in 1901 not a foot of land did she possess. The 
 last ]ewt\ to slip from her palsied hand was the 
 pearl of the Antilles. Spain is contracting, and 
 not expanding, because she has long since ceased 
 to be a growing nation. President Grant once 
 reverently said: 'T do not share in the appre- 
 hension of many persons as to the danger of 
 governments becoming weakened and destroyed 
 by reason of their extension of territory. Com- 
 merce, education, and rapid transit of thought 
 and matter by telegraph and steam have changed 
 all this. Rather do I believe that our own Great 
 Maker is preparing the world, in his ow^n good 
 time, to become one nation, speaking one lan- 
 guage; and then armies and navies will be no 
 longer required." 
 
 In our role as a propagator of liberty we can 
 not be indififerent to "the world's wrongs, the 
 world's woes, and the world's wars." Wherever 
 there are people struggling for their inherent 
 rights, there it will be our duty and privilege to 
 ofifer the encouragement of a Nation every step 
 of whose progress has been contested by the 
 opponents of personal and national liberty. Our 
 duty is to give to Cuba protection and independ- 
 
24 America's New Mission 
 
 ence. To Cuba and the Philippines must be 
 taken our schools, our laws, our national oppor- 
 tunities, and all the privileges and care which the 
 Stars and Stripes may be able to afford oppressed 
 peoples. 
 
 And, furthermore, America's war for human- 
 ity has won for her a conspicuous place in the 
 counsels of nations. In the bewildering crisis 
 into which the world is now^ coming, the solution 
 of the perplexing problems will be more easy 
 and possible, because of the unique relationship 
 of the United States of America to the allied 
 Powers of Europe. The Philippines are only six 
 hundred miles from the Asiatic coast. America 
 has come ''into the kingdom for such a time as 
 this," and her constitutional and traditional 
 policy of national rights and personal freedom 
 will speed the day of universal peace. 
 
 If it shall be objected that the white man can 
 not live in the tropics, and hence America has 
 no call of duty to the inhabitants of the distant 
 archipelago, it will be necessary only to quote 
 from the experiences of that very renowned 
 naturaHst, Alfred Russell Wallace, who has spent 
 may years under the equator: 'The fact is that 
 white men can live and work anywhere in the 
 tropics, if they are obliged; and unless they are 
 obliged, they will not, as a rule, work even in the 
 
America's New Mission 25 
 
 most temperate regions. The most conclusive 
 example is that of Queensland, the climate of 
 which is completely tropical ; yet white men work 
 in every part of it. The scores of varied indus- 
 tries of a civilized community are carried on by 
 white workmen without any difficulty, and with 
 no special effect on their general health. This 
 case really settles the question." 
 
 The obligations which have been thrust upon 
 the Church are even more important than those 
 which have come to the State. In the Philip- 
 pines are eight millions of people speaking 
 thirty-five dialects, who need to be educated, 
 Christianized, and made homogeneous. These 
 multitudes have been cruelly victimized by sacer- 
 dotal despotism and official rapacity. Upon in- 
 vestigation it is being found that Cuba was no 
 more viciously and inhumanly treated than have 
 been the inhabitants of the Philippine Archipel- 
 ago. These millions are waiting to learn of a 
 kind of Christianity which ennobles manhood, 
 which honors and protects pure womanhood, 
 which opens schools and cares for the sick and 
 poor, and which transforms the multitudes into 
 happy, refined, law-abiding communities. The 
 Christian Church should pour its money and 
 send armies of consecrated teachers into these 
 beautiful islands, and reclaim a people who have 
 
26 America's New Mission 
 
 been cursed by mediaeval tyranny and corrupt 
 ecclesiasticism. 
 
 We adopt as our own the eloquent words of 
 President McKinley: "No imperial designs lurk 
 in the American mind. They are alien to Amer- 
 ican sentiment, thought, and purpose. Our 
 priceless principles undergo no change under a 
 tropical sun. They go with the flag. If we can 
 benefit these remote peoples, who will object? 
 If in the years of the future they are established 
 in government under law and liberty, who will 
 regret our perils and sacrifices? Who will not 
 rejoice in our heroism and humanity? Always 
 perils, and always after them safety ; always dark- 
 ness and clouds, but always shining through 
 them the light and the sunshine. Always cost 
 and sacrifice, but always after them the fruition 
 of liberty, education, and civilization. I have no 
 light or knowledge not common to my country- 
 men. I do not prophesy. The present is all- 
 absorbing to me; but I can't bound my vision 
 by the bloodstained trenches around Manila, 
 where every red drop, whether from the veins of 
 an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is 
 anguish to my heart; but by the broad range of 
 future years, when that group of islands, under 
 the impulse of the year just past, shall have be- 
 come the gems and glories of those tropical seas, 
 
America's New Mission 27 
 
 a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities, 
 a people redeemed from savage indolence and 
 habits, devoted to the arts of peace, in touch with 
 the commerce and trade of all nations, enjoying 
 the blessings of freedom, of civil and religious 
 liberty, of education and of homes, and whose 
 children and children's children shall for ages 
 hence bless the American Republic because it 
 emancipated and redeemed their fatherland, and 
 set them in the pathway of the world's best civil- 
 ization." 
 
 If Church and State, working independently, 
 but each under the guidance of the God of Na- 
 tions, will assume these new obligations and 
 prove faithful to these great responsibilities, 
 blessings will come to the world which it is not 
 in the power of other nations to bestow ; and God 
 will greatly magnify our Republic and strengthen 
 our borders. 
 
 Expansion is not necessarily imperialism. 
 Our duty to the world is to proclaim liberty, to 
 give to all the inhabitants thereof our gospel of 
 freedom; to teach men how to govern them- 
 selves. And so soon, under our tutelage, as the 
 Cuban and the Tagal shall be fitted for self- 
 government, our America shall surprise the 
 grasping nations of the world by her magnani- 
 mous treatment of her temporary colonists. The 
 
28 America's New Mission 
 
 God of Nations has called us to this mighty 
 task, and the progeny of the Pilgrim Fathers will 
 not be recreant to the great trusts which they 
 have inherited. 
 
 **For we 
 Who scarce yet see 
 "Wisely to rule ourselves, are set 
 Where ways have met 
 To lead the waiting nations on ! 
 Not for our own 
 
 Land now are freedom's flags unfurled. 
 But for the world." 
 
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 Freedom's Next War for Humanity, _ 
 
 By Charles Edward Locke. 
 
FREEDOM'S NEXT 
 WAR FOR HUMANITY 
 
 By CKarles Erd^ward LocKe 
 
 TN his introductory chapter, the author states the pur- 
 pose of his discussions. After referring to America 
 in her new role of propagator and defender of hberty, 
 and to the recent victories won by the Stars and Stripes 
 for oppressed humanity, he says : 
 
 "As we have fought a war for humanity, for peoples 
 of other blood and language, so if our Nation shall be 
 perpetuated we shall be compelled to wage a war for the 
 oppressed and victimized portions of our own citizenship. 
 . . . While, therefore, as a Nation, we are providentially 
 led to assist struggling peoples in their contention for their 
 personal rights, we must not be unmindful of paramount 
 interests at home, which if neglected will speedily shorten 
 our career as propagators of liberty, and exhibit the Ameri- 
 can Republic to the world as a pitiable spectacle — a Nation 
 which could save others, but which could not save itself." 
 
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