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Excerpt from Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The Teuton conqueror, and lived to see the struc ture Which Bismarck reared crumbled into utter dust. Since he entered public life, Russm has had two Emperors, emancipated its slaves}, fought three great wars, overthrown the House of Czars and plunged into anarchy and ruin. France has been an Empire and a Republic, and countless rulers and statesmen have appeared and vanished from her national life. During that period the United States has developed into a great power, fought four wars, and the figures of Lincoln and Grant, of Elaine and Garfield, of Me Kinley and Roosevelt, have left their imprint and passed away. Meanwhile the British Empire has grown and expanded in size and strength and liberty, and Canada, from the feeble infancy into Which the Fathers of Confederation tried to in fuse the vitality of unity, has become the great Dominion of 1919. And during all those years. While rulers have come and gone, While states men have ?ourished and faded, While empires have sprung up or been destroyed, Sir Wilfrid remained a central figure on the international stage.
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