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Rh at large. It attracted unusual attention, and has been regarded as a summing up of the views and convictions that he was in the habit of expressing with such unsparing frankness. His was the doctrine of democracy carried through to the full limit. He painted in perhaps too glowing colors the progress of Iowa, for example, as compared with North Carolina—not to eulogize the one but to arouse the other. He was trying to show that Iowa's prosperity rested upon the practice as well as the theory of universal education. Having stated what he regarded as the main facts in the case, he moved on to his conclusions:

Economic errors, he said, must have economic correction, and sound economic action is always patriotic. There were touches of a very high eloquence in that Birmingham speech, and I must quote one paragraph not only because it shows the qualities of his mind and heart, but also because it states so well an American trait that in my opinion is to dominate our future even as it has characterized our past. The paragraph to which I refer is as follows:

It is not my purpose to embody in this address of mine, which may already be growing too long, any of that strictly biographical record that has been made accessible to us all in the