Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-20
THE OUTLOOK or THE NATION

THE OUTLOOK OF the N4 TONS.
The Modoc outbreak is at an end; the
Mormon difficulty is solved; the slavery
trouble is disentangled; the rebellion has
been suppressed the Alabama claims are
to be paid in month; the boundary
claims are to be adjudicated; democracy
is dying and disturbed; taxation has been
reduced; immigration continues; greater
crops promise unusual harvests; the
finances satisfy all but theorists and loaf
ers manufactures hold their own and COM
merce is reyiying. This at home. And
all of this is improved by higher distinc-
ton abroad than the country ever had. and
one sustained by notorious facts that can
not be denied.
In Europe, says the Philadelphia North
American, both France and Spain are still
within political cyclone that may pass
with no more injuries, or may instantly
sweep them with fresh furies. If it passes
they have great task, demanding econo-
my and Industry for at least generation
to achieve their restoration; if it returns,
the losses they have experienced are but
prelude to the drama in what may be an
ticipated. Great Britain has no mean
trouble of domestic politics; sees growing
class hatred; growing repatriation; 8
steady increase of pauperism; loss o
prestige as the make-weight for non-inter
ference in Continental disputes an in
creasing cost in manufactures, and rivalry
in Germany, France and Russia, as well
as in this country Germany enjoys heI
nationality, but feels the thorns OF the
chaplet she has won in enhanced costs OF
every kind, in greater jealousy OF neigh
boring nations, and theological wars that
flame holly Austria compels quiet, but
sees its uncertain tenure in such storms as
swept the Inauguration of her Exposition,
as well as the everlasting menace of an
incongruous population, who have no cle-
ment Of homogenity and revolt against
measures to secure it. Italy grows and
strengthens; always fearing lest the mach
nations of the Vatican may unloose dam
gers no sagacity can secure. Asia, Africa,
South America and Oceanica are improy-
ing more and more-are re-enterng or
entering the exchanges of the word-con
tributing and purchasing.
The statement alone shows that this
country needs no grand specific--no sud-
den advance to what is problematical-nor
return TO what has been proved wrong.
The prime object is to improve the oppor-
tunities these conditions prcsent-condi-
tions SO unique that century may pass as
centuries have passed, without a parallel.
This object is attainable by continuing the
methods and instrumentalities that have
brought us from recent danger and suffer-
ing to the estate we occupy, They
achieved this while they were less in num-
Der and in strength; and while many pur-
suing them doubted the sufiiciency that is
now ascertained They are certainly COM
petent to do what they have done and are
doing But the very conditions touched
show that there is more to be DONE hay
ing an increasing profit, and giving per-
manent strength, while ordinary and all
purely Fictitious opposition is numbed.
The sustaining merit of the American peo-
pie always has been to do more and
more wisely. This merit has been helped
by readiness to ascertain or create better
methods of doing, and made symmetrical
by perceiving and improving the order of
action. They were good farmers when
the chief end of man here was to fill his
stomach. They have not only retained
this ability, but made it superlative. while
pushing commerce into every sea, and
winning in century maritime equality
with Britain. They retained it while
opening another avenue to wealth and
power by manufactures that, of one kind
and another, are now found in every State,
and growing in variety as in number and
value. They retained all and expanded
all while carrying the revenue from min
ing OF almost every known metal and min
eral, to a startling total while laying the
country with rails and connecting it with
wires; while educating all as no people
were ever before educated. And vet.
when in food of material prosperity that
had no precedent the integrity Of the
whole was jeoparded by an assault upon
the principles that had created all, all was
thrown aside until the assault had leen re-