The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-19

and too often already has
he British statesman shown his inabiI- (
ty to appreciate the needs of the far q
Instant abOriglnes, and in his attempt 10 :
grasp the situation has placed bis gov !
ernment in position as critical as that
low held by Gladstone.
For thus acquiring foreign possessions I
; nation might be thought TO have two
legitimate motives as well from which
10 draw natures resources. food supply
and raw material, or as pool into which
it might pour its surplus millions Of
population. But no nation can ever hope
TO occupy and govern all the productive
part of the earth. not merely on account
of the difficulty of uniting different races,
but rather because II is contrary to the
best industrial economy Nations have
grown and thrlveE 10 proportion to their
intercourse with other nations.
China knew the art of printing cen
turtles before Gutenberg was born.
China made silk before silk made Lyons.
China had q literature before Chaucer
established the English tongue, whsD
Great Britain itself was peopled by q
wild, unclvIliZed race. China built for
herself a wall of isolation, while Eng
land, spanning her ocean barriers with
oaken bridges, drew across them not only /
the wealth of the Indies and Americas,
but also enough of other civilizations to |
react upon her own. The eastern |
country was Outstripped by her younger |
sister who to-day leads IN the van of
nations.
Competition is the key which unlOcks |
the door tor progress to enter. Not the |
competition for supremacy In absolute
power, in strength of armies and OF
fleets. but that rivalry which determines
who shall produce the best, the cheapest,
the most merchandise, whose people
shall be the best educated. whose gov
eminent shall accord 10 its citizens that
degree of liberty aud direction which
shall produce tie best social and
economic results. This is legitimate
and wholesome competition, and 20 give
full scope for its exercise, We must have
many nations of diversified character.
While a nation has no right thus TO
grasp territory as base of supplies. it
Las even less right to use it as Botany
Bay. There is no more .unchrlstlan or
lmpolitic plan than to draw the dregs Of
society OF by themselves to sink lower
in the slime okYice and sin. Acommu-
| nifty must in all justice take care OF this
| class of its citizens, and eDdeavor by the
warm, regeneratiDg influences OF modern
society TO keep them af1oat, to make
them a useful part of the body polite
worth and his home in some already
civilized land where honest laboI Is well
| coined, or let him help to rear popular
| government on some one of esTth's waste
| places. These motives, and these alone,
| can have In them eVeu the sem blance
| of validity.
| This congress has mapped out, not
only the policy to be pursued in south
ern Africa, but also that which shall
| guide the nations of the future, In their
distribution OF earth's broad acres. The
| work OF this body of men shall awake
the echo OF that trIumphal bell OF
peace which was cast in the mould when
William Penn met the Indians by the
| Delaware, and which was hung on high
| by the Peace society of 1915.
For seven decades that bell has rung
the victories won for the doctrine OF
love, for the brotherhood of man. Again
and again 1t has rung when kings and
princes have received it, humble dele
cations; when even Alexander, car OF
all the Russias, gave respectful audience
to the simple ENJOYS OF the Friends of
Peace. Sull louder echoed Its peal
when the Geneva conference adjusted
the Alabama claims, and Great Britain,
though feeling deeply outraged at tAe
findiugs of the tribunal, yet determined
TO abide by its decision, In order that
arbitration might become the recognized
method of settling international dis
putes. Again. in 1878, its joyous tones
were heard when ID the same salon now
occupied by our chosen forty there gath
cred GoItschakoff of Russia, Andrassy OF
Austria, Beaconsfield, Bismarck. and
other masters of Eurapean states
craft, who declared that Ser
via, Roumania and Montenegro
must be free; that Greece must have
her own; that the sultan must accord to
his subjects more liberty, both civil and
religious.
Thus it has rung louder and clearer at
every fresh victory. Burritt and Dodge
haYe braVed the perils OF the Atlantic
Bright and Golden have left the chalk
cliffs OF their island Cme, Garibaldi has
climbed the snowy Alps. that they might
hear its gladstone peal still more plain
ly. Bot, lOudest of all, that echoIng pea
is heard to-day, for the Berlin confer
ence has had before it no sectional issue
J but a world wide problem. The plan OF
colonization by might, so long the
tempter Turing the rulers of the worlC
: from the path OF justice, has given plac'
, to q more equitable procedure. Then
where wars have In the past yielded Il
: remedial influences, they are now to b
: wholly discouraged. For the age of pre-
| VeQSlOn has udWuC0. Ab WC6t AiIlCol
association seeks to so build the Cong
free state that the clash of arms ma,
e never be necessary, msy never be know
e within her borders, that even in toreigl
|. wars, vessels may never find ammunition
a and provision in her ports.
s The age of bloody conquest must &c
f the flag of commerce must take the piac
!. of the flag of war, and arbitration mus
= forever bury the battlefield from view
4 Then, indeed, may we begin to dream
i that the millennium has Oawned, WheI
T nation is drawn to nation by the ties of
|. mutual friendship, when commerce, wit
# deft fingers, has woven her hempen an
!. fiaxen bands about the national heart.
You have heard of far-fsned Delos
S that sunny isle of the Egean sSs
J. where were gathered together in on
}. common vault, the treasures of the wal
/ ring states of Greece, where, with tn
skill of Phidias, were reared temple
L to the immortal gods. No hostile foS
e e'er pressed its shore. for there all, frIen
IS and foe, met on common ground. In il
8 largest temple was an altar built {
=. horns, so intertwined and woven to
Il gether that they could not be torn asur
It der.
" In the temple we are building, th
great temple of universal peace, tn
Y Congo Conference has laid the corne
stone and before long we ehall see II
= spire, resplendeEt in the noOnttde sui
stretching heavenward to meet the ar
q proving smile of its divine architect
j. ItssascendiDg walls assure rs that il wi
II not, nay, that il can not be long ere til
IS whole world shall find here an asylum
+ as in Delos of the ancients, when th
= nations, like the horns of thst holy alte
; shall be indissolubly woven togetht r. an
e the Almighty shall again say, $50 let
u be: 1t is good.
K The music, vocal and instrumental
u between the various orarInbs, Wi
z received with deserved favor The son
!. THE Soldiers FAREWELL by the Norm
If octette, under the leadership of Prof.
At C. Moss, was heartily encored. and in T
e Spouse Rocked on the Billows OF tt
Deep" was rendered in q pleasir
e manner. Prof. Moss played a piar
le solo, Irish Diamonds" This was Il
first occasion had to hear the profe
II sor by the larger part of Il
" audience, and the enthusiastic encor
is 10 WHICH he kindly responded, shove
now thoroughly he succeeded in plea
n ing.
:, The lode to the Contestants" wink
n was composed by Prof Moss and sur
n to an air from the PIRATES of Penzanc'
d was a very clever pleasantly The sol
: was sung by Mr. w. E Woodward WI
IL also ground out'' the chorus from Il
az Normal octet,e. In response to enco
they responded IN pantomime. The