The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-03

started Out as a republic, shaky
moneyless, inexperienced and al
most faithless. To-day, 55,0OO,0Ot
of people, rich, strong, progressiv,
and prosperous, spread from thu
Atlantic To the Pacific, and from
the great lakes to the Gulf. The,
have made vast and trackless wild
ernesses rejoice and blossom like
THE ROSE GARDEN OF THE GODS.
They have made the deep, ahys
NAL soltudes of untold ages musica
with the many voiced industries Of
civilization, and that civilization
with all its faults, the freest and
highest and best the world has evel
know. They Lave built as by ON
nipotent encaanters' spells, cities
and railroads and canals. They
have bridged the mightiest rivers
and tunnelled the tallest mountains
of the globe. Tney have spanned q
hemisphere with their iron high
ways and girdled the solid earth
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They travel by steam and talk by
lightning. Their ingenuity and
inventions never end; their credit is
unlimited--their energy is tireiess
and dauntless, 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
settlement Of u century or so ago,
now has half as many inhabitants
as their whole republic when they
declared themselves free and indie
pendent, and could Iaise more
money in "a hours for q North,
Central or South American railway
scheme than the whole Continental
Congress ever dreamed Of during
the seven years of the revelation
An Indian frontier fort IN an un-
known wilderness of fifty years ago,
now has a population of over
500, is the most beautifully
built city, and engineers the most
gigantic wheat corner steals in
Chrisiendom.
Emigrants are pouring in daily
by thousands from every land be-
meath the sun. A railroad, a few
mines, a cataract's water power and
little vigorous advertising and
work suffice to build a city of
half a hundred thousand inhabi
tants anywhere in a few months
time. The whole continent is be
ing checkercd With vast railroad
lines aud sOwn broadcast with mag
ical cities, while private citizens
handle revenues that dwarf the
riches of emperors and kings.
Where is all this gigantic dcvel.
opment and growth to end? Will
not
THE ctosE OF OUR CENTURY
see all North America, from Behr-
ing's Strait to the Isthmus of Pana-
ma, under one glorious free govern
ment and tri-colorcd flag? Will
not The mystical figures, "A. ID.
1900" find us all, Canadians, Uni
ted Statians, Me@lcans, Guetama-
lans and Nicaraguans, brethren and
friends and fellow citizens, march
ing beneath the starry banner of the
free and the brave, to a grand com,
mon destiny OF illimitable wealth
and power and renown? Then
shall Columbias pet eagle (Which is
being so numerous y and diversified
ly squeezed until he squawks to-
day. perched upon the loftiest pin
nacle crag of the royal ore-ribbed
Rocky Mountains, spread his cloud.
bathed wings from the multiforal
rainbows and frost wrought splen-
doris of the Aurora Borealic realms
to where the billowed sunshine of
Hondurian gulfs chants its ceaseless
anthem to shores of everlasting
green and gold, and trumpet forth
in universe reverberating tones his
Cock doodle Yankee ee-dOOdle-doo"
of eXultation and defiance to all the
wQr.9 and the rest of mankind.
Earth's two greatest oceans, 5000
miles apart, shall roll up in thunder
ing oratorio their echo of the high
and glad refrain; the mightiest
CULTS and grandest lakes in all crea-
tion shall join the chant; river after
river, huge rolling floods, shall con
spire to swell the giant peaI; Sqpe-
rior's waves, MiSsissippi's torrent,
Niagara's misty thunders shall roar
it far and wide; the hurricane,
crashing through ten thousand
mountain gorges, from the Allegha-
mics to the Co:diileras, from the
Adirondacks to the Sierras, shall
chime it; the raging billiards., hurl-
ing siX-inch haiistones on sky
bounded Ne0raskian plains, shall
whistle and rattle it; the catSmount
shall shrek it; the prairie wolf shall
howl it; the lone owlct hoot it, and
the grizzly bear shall growl it, and
the burden of it shall be: "Ameri-
ca for Americans! One country, one
flag, zwci lager, from Greenland S
icy mountains to Daricn's golden
strands! f pluribus unum, now,
henceforth and forever, world with
out end, Amenm