Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-21

| ll6a5uEaDly sur passing III power anu III
dimensions any empire that has yet
existed. But we must now consider for
a moment the probable future career Of
the English race in other parts of the
I world. The colonization of North Ameri-
ca by. EDglishmen had its direct effects
upon the eastern as well as upon the
western side of the Atlantic. The i'm
mense growth Of the commercial and
naval strength of England between the
time of the elder Pitt was intimately
! connected with the colonization Of North
America and the establishment Of planta-
tiOns in the West Indies.
( These circumstances reacted power
{ fully upon the material development of
/ England, multiplying manifold the di-
mansions Of her foreign trade, increasing
| prOpOrtiOnately her commercial marine,
and giving her in the eighteenth
! century the dominion over the seas.
Endowed with this maritime suprema-
cy, she has with an unerringi
/ instinct proceeded to seize upon
| the keys of empire in all parts of the
! World-Gibraltar, Malta, the Isthmus Of
! Suez, Alden, CeylOn, the coasts Of Aus
/ tralia, island after island in the Pacific
| every station, IN short, that commands
/ the pathways of maritime commerce, or
guards the approaches to the barbarOus
/ countries which she is beginning to re-
gard as in some way her natural herit-
! age. Any Well-filled album of postage
stamps is an eloquent commentary on.
! this maritime supremacy of England.
/ 1t is enough to turn ones head to look
/ over her colonial blue-bOOks. The ma
/ tural outcome of all this overlooking
vitality it is not difficult to fOresee. No
| one can carefully watch what is going on
/ in Africa to-day without recognizing it as
the same sort of thing which was going
/ on in North America in the seventeenth
| century; and it can not fail to bring forth
similar results in course of time. Here
/ is a vast country, rich in beautiful
IsCenery, and in recOurces Of timber
and minerals, with a salubTiOus eli
mate and fertile soil, with great naYigable
rivers and inland lakes, which will not
much longer be left in control of taWny
lions and long-eared elephants, and negro
/ acknowledges. Already five -four
| ishing English States nave been estab-
| lished in the south, besides the settle
ments on the Gold Coast, and those at
/ Alden commanding the Red Sea. Eng
/ lish explorers work their way with IN
! finite hardship through its untraveled
/ Wilds, and track the courses of the Congo
and the Nile as their forefathers tracked
/ the Potomac and the Hudson. The work
/ of La Sale and Smith is finding its cOun-
| terpart in the labors of Baker and LiV-
! ingstOne. Who can doubt that within
| two or three centuries the African CONT
nent will be occupied by a mighty nation
| of English descent. and covered with pop
ulOus cities and hourishing farms, with
railroads and telegraphs and free schools
and other devices of civilization as vet
undreamed Of? If we look next to
Australia we find a country of more
than two-thirds the area of the United
States, with temperate climate and i'm
mense resources, agricultural and mineral,
q country sparsely peOpIed by a race of
| irredeemable savages hardly above the
| level of brutes. Here England within
the present century has planted five
greatly thriving states, concerning which
L have not time to say much, but one fact
will serve for an example. When IN
America we wish to illustrate in one
word the wonderful growth of our So
called Northwestern States, we refer to
Chicago, a city of half million inhabi-
tants standing on a spot which fifty
| years ago was an uninhabited marsh. In
Australia the city of Melbourne was
founded in 1887, the year when the
present Queen of England began to
reign, and the state of which 1t is the
capital was hence called Victoria. This
city, now just forty eight years old has
a population half that of Chicago, has q
public library of 100000 volumes, and
has a university with at least one pro-
lessor of worldwide renOwn. When we
see, by-the-Way, within a period Of five
years, and at such remote points upon
the earth's surface, such erudite and
ponderOus works in the English language
issuing from the press as those of PrOfes-
sor Hearn of Melbourne, of Bishop Co
IensO of Natal, and of Mr.. Hubert Ban
croft Of San Francisco, even such a little
commonplace fact as this is fraught with
wonderful significance when we think of
all that it implies. Then there is New
Zealand, with it's climate Of perpetual
spring, where the English race is now
multiplying faster than anywhere else in
the world, unless it be in Texas and
Minnesota. And there are in the Pacific
Ocean many rich and fertile spots where
we shall very soon see the same things
going on.
It Is not necessary to dwell upon such
considerations as these. 1t is enough to
point to the general conclusion that the
work which the English race began
when it cOlOnized North America is des-
tined to 60 on until every land on the
earth's surface that is not already the
seat of an old civilization shall become
English in its language, in its religion, in
its political habits and traditions,
and TO a predominant extent In the
blood of its people. The day is
at hand when fOur-fifths of the hui
maa race will trace its pedigree to Eng
lish fOrefathers, as fOur-hfths Of the
white people in the United States trace
their pedigree to-day. The race thus
spread over both hemispheres, and from
the rising to the setting sun, will not fail
to keep that sovereignty of the sea and
that commercial supremacy which it be-
gan to acquire when England first
stretched its arm across the Atlantic to
theshOres of Virginia and Massachusetts.
The language spoken by these com
munities will not be sundered into dia-
lects like the language Of the ancient
Romans, but perpetual intercommunica-
ton and the universal habit Of reading