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From Four Corners to Washington: A Little Story of Home, Love, War and Politics [1920 ]

Cole, Cyrenus

Cornell University Library

A History of the People of Iowa

History

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Nabu Press

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LXXXIII The Whirligig Op Politics With the death of the men who had created it. tike old-order was passing away. Bat what were called new iass were merely the old ones with a new shading in color. Tisare said to be only thirteen basic stories in the world, and tar all the tales that have been told and re-told are only variance of these primary ones. There are probably fewer kka* u* government and of possible social and industrial compaea Every possible form of government has been tried at i*tr once, or many times. Even the recall of judges and of judicjopinions which startled some Americans at that time, it wis found had been tried long before. It has been said that all tumoral government possible may be read out of the Ten Commandments of Moses, and all the social ameliorations possblr out of the Sermon on the Mount preached by Jesus Chrsr But as the twenty-odd letters of the alphabet may be arrang*^ to form the literature of a world, so concepts and compact* and ideas may be arranged and re-arranged without end Tj form new laws and new governments. The study of history ought to be the most profitable occupation of mankind, be: those who make the laws and who project them are not always students of history. In their equations human desires coon: for more than human experiences. The impossible is always appearing as the possible. But it may be that out of the attempt to reconcile them, human progress comes. In Iowa the older order was passing away. Colonel David B. Henderson, a valiant fighter but not a far-seeing man. gave up in despair, and Robert G. Cousins, one of the sanest thinkers among the great orators of the state and nation, went into retirement. Leslie M. Shaw, who had been governor and secretary of the...

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