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THE LAND OF MANY NAMES

First Sandwichman:

The New England!

Second Sandwichman:

The New France!

Seventh Voice from the Crowd:

No! The Land of all Continents!

Eighth Voice from the Crowd:

No, never! never! The New Germany!

Vandergold:

Do you hear that? Do you hear?

Dollarson:

Why continue with this litany of names? They merely indicate the economic, political, social and intellectual importance which the whole world attaches to the New Continent, and what great hopes are associated with its future. That is why it is called the Land of Hopes.

Vandergold:

Then for the time being you’d better just call it the Land of Many Names. But it will bear only a single name.

Dollarson:

Which one?

Vandergold:

I don’t know yet. But it will bear the name of the one to whom it will belong.