And can we doubt that to-morrow's national and
world problems will be deeper still?
There are three or four great international questions for this
Republic to solve on this Western hemisphere, the working out of any
one of which means immortality for the statesman who does it.
Of course, the great industrial and sociological questions are the
profoundest of all. The world has been at work on these since men
arranged themselves into organized society. But the incredibly swift
evolution of modern business itself seems to be hastening the time
when some satisfactory solution of these master problems must at least
be begun.
So that, if you really have the material of a statesman in you--the
stuff that thinks out the answer to great questions--there is a field
before you compared with which the opportunities of Hamilton and
Washington and Jefferson almost seem small, leviathan as those
opportunities were and masterfully as those great men improved them.
The editor of one of our big modern newspapers gave it to me as his
opinion that the art of producing a newspaper is as much in its
infancy as is the science of electricity. "The yellow journal," said
he, "is an evolution, just as trusts in their deeper significance are
an evolution.
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