Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . s only a baby 65,000,000 are only a fraction of the number that canbe supported in peace and comfort on our soil. We havenearly one-half of the arable land of the earth, with buttwenty people to the .square mile, while Belgium has have a fertile soil, a healthful climate, a free govern-ment in which liberty, fraternity and equality, for whichthe world has striven, lo, these many years, are householdwords, .so familiar that we almost doubt the old worldtales of peoples being driven like dumb cattle by kingsand prie
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . s only a baby 65,000,000 are only a fraction of the number that canbe supported in peace and comfort on our soil. We havenearly one-half of the arable land of the earth, with buttwenty people to the .square mile, while Belgium has have a fertile soil, a healthful climate, a free govern-ment in which liberty, fraternity and equality, for whichthe world has striven, lo, these many years, are householdwords, .so familiar that we almost doubt the old worldtales of peoples being driven like dumb cattle by kingsand priests. The great republic will go on prosperingand to , because the people intend this very yearto send the false prophets and false teachers into , resurrectionless oblivion. 84 flLTHOUGH not a member of the touristcombination for more than a day throughthe State, 3^et the work done in Philadelphia,on the same stage with General Hastings and hisfriends, merits a place here for George S. Graham,District Attorney of Philadelphia, and LL. D. by. Hon. George S. Graham,District Attorney of Philadelphia County. the grace of Lafayette College. No one who hasever heard him speak can forget the force andeloquence of his words. It is this power to swaymens minds for justice and right, coupled withhigh legal attainments, that has placed George 85 S. Graham in the Chair of Criminal Law of theUniversity of Pennsylvania and has given himfifteen years of consecutive service as DistrictAttorney, three times having no opposition. Mr. Graham is a Philadelphian, born here Sep-tember 13, 1850. He was educated by tutor andin the public schools, and graduated from the LawDepartment of the University in 1871. In thatsame year he was admitted to the bar. Heserved three years as a member of Select Council,and resigned in 1880 to accept the DistrictAttorneyship. As a painter of vivid word pictures Mr. Gra-ham has few equals on tl:e rostrum. He main-tains that it is better that a thou
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