The latter 25 years were equally imicut, for upon my shoulders hes fallen the great task of national salva-ton." All these long years of hard struggle appear to me as if they were happening yesterday. Fellow-countrymen and dear comrades, it all depends upon one's own endeavor to bring back one's old. glories, and, as' the reflection on things gone by inevitably throws light upon the things to come, T'take this opportunity' to dwell a Uttle further on the principles where by a nation may establish iter, "there Is a. proverb which. says:—strom the family is built " nation." The cause by which a family rises cor falls can be equally applied to a nation. Just as with a family, nation may be powerful at one tim and weak at another. Whether a nation perishes or flourishes, it li singleness of. purpose, we are. sure litinately to triumph over our diftculties.
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