02/23/1919
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"It has been impossible to avoid them."
"The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled, and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves."
"I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things."
"No one doubts what it is our duty to do."