Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1886-02-20
u THE LAST r. A
Facts About the Worlds Pro-
Gress in that Time.
The People of the New orh Out
stripping Those of the Old,

IN the forty-nine years reign Of
Queen Victoria the government OF
that great nation has been growing
more and more liberal, while the PEG
pie are enjoying very much Of what is
known as American freedom. Never
before has an election to the House Of
Commons been attended with such in
tcrest and importance, for the issue
relates to the extension of human
rights, the enlargement of personal
liberty.
France has outlived, in form, for a
season at least, her Napoleonic rule,
and settled into a Republic not unlike
the United States. Germany, adher-
ing to her time-honored King, has re-
leased to the people many privileges,
and extended her power since the
Franco Russian victories, but America,
the scion of the oldest government,
with more land and energy than her
father, has out-grown all expectations.
The majority of people, a life of sue
cess equal to their hopes and in5pira-
lions is glory quite sufficient, yet who
had eve predicted that America, the
once bleak and despised Republic,
should distance all competitors? The
day of trouble brought Us doubt Of it;
the hour of peril led us to question if
we had planned wisely, but the hours
OF triumph in liberty, unity, currency
and credit made US proud Of our ma
tlonal influence.
In New York, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, and New England there were
farms and homes and improvements as
long as forty years'a ago, but the better
part came on much later. Within
the period of forty years has been
made the greatest gains and the fast
est time ever before recorded in any
country. In the West we knew very
little OF luxury forty years ago. The
bulk of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and the States further to-
ward sunset. have grown into being
and blossomed into gardens within the
last third of a century.
The pruned and cultivated farms of
England have Deer trained and tended
for many centuries, while the fields and
prairies of Indiana and Dakota
were homes of red men and
free lands Of hunters. The
limit of English land and the ex-
tent of II own is the chief cause of
ones finer cultivation and the others
rugged developments.
But the people in the New World
are even ahead Of their improvements.
Inventors by the thousands, machine
ry by the mile length, mining and
stock raising. grain and wood com
merce, trade and speculation, out
grows the mother countries by degree:
beyond counting, and America, once
so poor and dependent that she invited
France to join her in a struggle fol-
independence, may now claim more
liberty, moro progress, and more inde
pendence than ever England.
In land, exclusive Of India and Can
ada, what country can compare Will
America? In machinery, implements
wood, iron. coal, gold. silver, salt anc
minerals, timber lumber, railway an
cattle ranges, where is her equal? IL
growth of men and development o
letters-counting Of course, the meagr
beginning what a wonderful an,
marvellous advancement. 1t is no
the climate, nor the water. nor the 10
cation, nor the soil, nor the advanta
ges, but the men that have made it
1t is not the land of a street, but tn
men on it that improve it, 1t is no
the money we had, but the money w
earned that made the nation rich. !
Is the grand co-partnerShip of the pee
pie, who somehow all feel an intere,
in its progress. that has made Amer
ca SO thrifty. SO progressive, and S
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