Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-20
MANS MOVEMENT WESTWARD.
An Epoch I'm the History Ofthe West
ward Movement.
From the Chicago Times.

From me Chlc(tgo Tunes.
Westward the stream of humanity
has poured from its cradle in Asia over
Africa, Europe, America, and the is
lands of the Pacific Ocean, till the globe
has been circumnavigatedb by emigrants,
and the extremes of mobility and inn
mobility among men have met on the
eastern coasts of Cathay. AS mankind
has moved westward it has cast off the
chains ofphysical and mental slavery,
and has assumed an ever-increasing de-
cree of freedom as it has advanced to-
ward the setting of the sun. Western
Asia, Eastern Europe, Western
Europe America, are all stepping
stones in the progress of man
kind, and each shows the condition that
the people west of it We're in earlier
DAYS. The course of empire takes its
way westward, and emancipation, pro-
grCssiveness, and material and ideal
prosperity are To be found in its course.
The girdie of civilization has been car
ried around the world.
The English only have succeeded in
moving with equal success with and
against the sun in his passage. In
Russia the migration of humanity has
formed a vast eddy. The hordes OF
Asia there came in contact with hordes
that had advanced before them and ac-
uuired that civilization which seems to
be inseparable from the westward move
ment. The Asiatics in Russia must
either assimilate with the people west
of them or stop where they were; they
did the former, and when their num-
bers had increased so that the inevita-
bic overflow must occur, current to-
ward the East set in. The tide was too
weak to break down the Teutonic
barrier in front and so it bent back on
itself, and has gradually spread over all
Northern Asia, and even touched the
American continent.
From the antipodes of Asia, whence
man with equal facility reaches the
home of his ancestors by
seeking the rising or the
setting sun, the advance guard OF
civilization has divided, and the two
portions have moved in opposite direc-
tons, meeting with equal success. The
English more nearly than any other
people occupy that position on the
globe which is equally near the ancient
breeding-grounds of the race by the
eastern or the western route, and they
have as natural consequence, pushed
on in both directions. Westward they
have crossed America, and pre-empted
Australia; eastward they have pursued
their way around Africa, spread over
India, and annexed Hong. Kong to
Great Britain
But while the Muscovite moves east
ward and the Anglo Saxon moves east
ward and westward with equal ease,
the Asiatic is limited to q westward
movement. Mankind has grown
civilized by moving westward; it is not
to be permitted to the Oriental TO reach
by voyage of three or four weeks that
civilization which the Anglo-Saxon
race has been thousands of years in &C
Quiring. The experiment has been
tried. The people Of China have moved
eastward TO Australia and California,
and there the most progressive and least
progressive elements of the race met.
The result was conflict. The people of
Australia and California have been
moving westward ever since the dawn
of history and their state of civilization
Is the result of this standardization.
If the people of China would have
civilization, they must seek it as the
people of Australia and California,
have, or wait till the forces of civilizs-
tlon advancing upon them, from the
east and from the west
meet and spread over their
territory. For them to seek civili-
zation by advancing across the Pacific to
meet its pioneers is an attempt to move
backward the wheels ofhnman progress;
it is an inversion of history.
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