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Nowhere is this better seen than in the Roman Catholic Church. The contemplation of the oldest institution in the world, which for nearly two thousand years has exercised unbroken dominion over the souls and often the bodies of men contains in itself something of the dramatic. It has had its supreme glories, and its supreme failures; its moments of pride and its moments of discredit; its days of brilliance and its nights of shadow...
...beauty of this cross is significant of the high motives which actuate this occasion, but marble [an error, it was granite] alone could not express the warm friendship and sympathetic understanding which are brought to us by these distinguished representatives of the Dominion. . . . Many of us imagine that the long peace that has existed between us is due to a treaty now nearly 110 years old for disarmament upon the Great Lakes. That peace is due not to the treaty but to the spirit that led to the treaty; it is due not to a formal bond of agreement...
...years ago since the Dominion Senate was established and for most of that period a movement to "end or mend the Senate" has been an annual slogan of Canadian politics. But the aged Senators have been so tenacious of office that they have resisted every effort at reform; for, without their consent, nothing can be done to change the present constitution of that venerable house...
...immediate task of the assembly will be to frame a new constitution which, it may be confidently anticipated, will "legalize" the dominion of the Dictator...
...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...