San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-03


the wealth and power and prosperity
ultimately to be attained by this Amer
lean land, this American people, this
American nation. But Elk years more
than century ago, a poor. scanty pop,
ulation of 100000 souls, confined to a
few sea coast provinces within hearing
OF the Atlantic surf, starting out rs
republic, shaky, moneyless, inexperi-
enced and almost faithless. To-day,
5o,OOO,0OO OF people, rich, strong, pro-
gressive and prosperous, spread from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from
the great lakes to the Gulf. They have
made vast and trackless wildernesses
rejoice and blossom like
THE ROSE GARDENS OF THE GODS.
They have made the deep, abysmal SOL
itudes of untold ges musical with the
many voiced industries of civilization,
and that civilization, with all its faults,
the freest and highest and best the
world has ever known. They have
built, as by omnipotent enchanters'
spells, cities and railroads and canals.
They have bridged the mightiest riv-
ers and tunneled the talest mountains
on the globe. They have spanned n
hemisphere with their iron highways
and girdled the solid earth with their
electric cables.
They travel by steam and talk by
lightning. Their ingenuity and inven.
tions never end; their credit is unlimited
their energy is tireless and dauntess,
and their enterprise halts at nothing.
They have. shown creation that in the
bright vocabulary of American national
youth there is no such word as fail.
One of their cities, Dutch island set
Element of a century or so ago, now has
half as many Inhabitants as their whole
republic when they declared themselves
free and independent, and could raise
more money in "a hours for a North,
Central or South American railway
scheme than the whole Continental
Congress ever dreamed of during the
seven years of the revolution. An In
dian frontier fort, in an unknown will
derness of fifty years ago, now has q
population Of over 100000, is the most
beautifully built city, and engineers the
most gigantic wheat corner steals in
Christendom.
Emigrants are pouring in by daily
thousands, from every land beneath the
sun. A railroad, few mines, catar-
acts water power and little vigorous
advertising and work suffice to build a
city of half hundred thousand inhAb-
itants anywhere in a few months time.
The whole continent is being checkered
with vast railroad lines and sown
broadcast with magical cities, while pri-
vate citizens handle revenues that
dwarf the riches of emperors and kings.
Where is all this gigantic develop
ment and growth to end? Will not
THE CLOSE OF OUR CENTURY
SEQ all North America, from Behring's
Strait to the Isthmus of Panama, under
one glorious free government and tri-
colored flag? Will not the mystical
figures, ga. d. 19OO," find us all, Can
adams, United Statians, Mexicans,
Guetamalans and Nicaraguans, brethren
and friends and fellow citizens, march
ing beneath the starry banner of the
free and the brave. to y rand common
destiny of illimitable wea. and power
and renown? Then shall umbia's
pet eagle (Which is being 50 mer-
ously and diversifedly squeezed u i
he squawks to-day, perched upon t1
Hottest pinnacle crag of the royal ore
ribbed Rocky Mountains, spread his
cloud bathed wings from the multiforal
rainbows and frost-wrought splendors
of the Aurora Borcalic realms. to where
the beloved sunshine of Hondurian
CULTS chants its ceaseless anthem to
s lores of everlasting green and gold,
and trumpet forth in universe rever-
berating tones his "Cock-a-doodle-
Yankee doodle-doo!" of txultation and
defiance to all the world and the rest of
mankind. Earth's two greatest oceans
5000 miles apart, shall roll up in thun-
derine oratorio their echo of the high
and glad refrain; the mightiest gull
and erandest lakes in all creation shall
Join the chant; river after river, huge,
rolling foods, shall conspire to swell