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To-day the world is wide, and before the world's tribunal each candidate for historic honors must appear. The world's estimate, and that alone, posterity will accept, and even that it will here after most carefully revise.
The young Emperor of Germany, seeking to decree his grand father's place in history, would have him styled William the Great. Here and there, in one nation and another, Press and people combine to deify some popular hero and offer him for the plaudits or the worship of the age. It is a vain endeavor. The universal judgment cannot be forestalled. No force or artifice can make mankind accept as final the false estimate instead of the true. Money, powerful, dangerous and threatening as it now is in this Republic, cannot for long buy a verdict. The unbiased world alone is capable of stamping upon the forehead of man that mark which neither the injustice of adverse interest, nor envy's gnaw ing tooth, nor the ceaseless ?ow of the river of time are able to efi'ace.
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