The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-03-07
VOLUME 24-NUMBER q

nifty as lately presented, says plsinI,
that our government viii in no par
tieular recant from the position it has
taken in regard to the Washington
Treaty. Basing our conclusions OF
this fact, and the treaehery Of Eng
land, We look for, we expect a var be
tween the two nations. Which will b,
victorious?
Though England claims the strong.
est navy in the world, and though We
are just recovering from the effects
of a civil war, We answer IN
hesitatingly, the United States,
Here We again have resource TO our
motto, that Of judging the future by
the past; and as we have never yet
been Overpowered by any nation, we
never expect to be. Our resources for
carrying on war are much better than
those Of England; and what if she
has a stronger navy than we have, in
this fast day and age of the world We
can build one up in ninety days su-
periOr to hers. Again, twO-thirds of
the population of Canada will Join
US, while Ireland, too weak to eupe
with so powerful an adversary alone,
will, as soon US she finds her in diff
Guilty with another nation, seek to ab-
solve herself from its tyrannie,I con-
troll by war.
The effects Of this war willundoubt-
edly be productive Of much good, be-
sides aiding Ireland, indirectly, 70 be-
come an independent nation we viii
annex to eur own territory the Cana
das, thus securing for ourselves the
free navigation of the st. Lawrence,
which We 50 much need. Hence we
see We have nothing in the future to
fear but much to anticipate.
We have as yet only hinted at the
future building up Of great cities; we
wish now to dwell more particularly
upon it for a moment. Let Us imagine
ourselves 10 have taken a Rip Van
Winkle sleep, and wake up some forty
or fifty years in the future. Methnks
We will be mJre astonished at our
Surroundings than was this much
abused man upon looking around him
for his dog and gun, to see only the
skeleton ofthe one, and the rusty barrel
Of the other.
The proposed Continental Air Line
Railroad, from New York city to
will then be complete, aud as
there is no possibility of its missing
Republic we will no doubt make up
in a great commercial city, the pride
of Ohio. No longer will we be sneered
at and spoken of only as a town from
which no good thing proceedeth, but
even our fiourishing county seat
will be rejoicsd at its own close prox-
unity to one of the greatest cities Of
the Western states. It's Inhabitants
to US for the greater Of their
merchandise, while the merchants
themselves can do no better than
make their wholesale purchase here. !
Instead Of these dingy walls and this
interpreted floor, will be seen a stately
sdifice, towering 20 the very skies
with swelling column and stately
lone, Instead of the lily constructed
which the Normal now oceu-
,ies, will appear one of largest and
inest school buildings ever erected in
America. The school itself will have
gained that great reputation which it
20 justly merits, and hundreds and
Of young gentlemen and
md ladies, anxious to be educated 10
! manner that shall prepare them for
ife as it is instead Of the unsubstAn-
ial and visionary, will daily Hood our
treets. We would like toenter more /
great city OF B9puDIIcJ TJT UIr IITrTTsT
owes to dwell on this; but want OF
ime forbids. We have looked at
and see only improve
nent in the future. Science though !
brought to a state as near
perfection as it were reasonable to
expect, shall yet several many won
iers to the astOnished world
Education, upon which 50 much of
,ur happiness depends both in this
world aud the hereafter, viii be placed
within the reach Of all, ths poor as
we'll as the ricn. As the rili that is
,ues from its source amid the rocks,
increases until a mighty
liver it bears upon its broad bosom
he wealth of q thriving commerce,
hen mingfes with the ocean, and
oins to swell the anthem Of the sea;
,ven so the mind, at first weak, will
increase in strength by
cultivation until it has accumulated
,he intellectual wealth Of irges, then
will miugle with the great ocean Of
eternity, and join to swell the anthem
that rises around the throne Of the
eternal. FRANKIE E. MILLS.