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Republican party. Montana and Washington, on the other hand, were expected to strengthen the Democrats; and in 1889 an "omnibus bill" admitted all four States. The next year, the admission of Idaho and Wyoming gave the first continuous band of States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Utah, though prosperous and populous, was kept out for years because of its

FUTURE AMERICANS. A photograph of a band of Armenians landed at Ellis Island, March 9, 1916. The advance guard of a body of 4200 who were rescued at one time from Turkish massacre by a French cruiser off the coast of Syria.

polygamy; but in 1890, when the Mormon Church renounced that doctrine, the State was admitted. Oklahoma, the old "Indian Territory," came in in 1907, and Arizona and New Mexico in 1912. This completed the solid block of forty-eight States in the vast region bounded by the two oceans, east and west, and by Canada and Mexico north and south. Before long, no doubt, the nation will be confronted with demands