Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-09
The United States The Greatest Or
Nations.

!, MOST patrl0tlc people love 10 potsI
of their native land.
We do not in tend to boast nor ex-
aggerate but present plain, lndisputable
facts.
We are regarded by the nations,
which are capable of viewing us with
an impartial eye, as the greatest ma
tion on the globe.
We claim as much, and have q
rig. to, as the facts will show.
/ In the first place the United States
has done as much as any nation to
advance science. Greeley the Arctic
explorer. Benjamin Franklin, the dis
coverer of electricity, and Louis
Agassiz, the man who made natural
history new science, were all Amer
leans.
Then the United States has produced
more great inventors than any other
nation. Robert Fulton the first man
to apply steam "a motive power to
ships. Morse the inventor of electric
telegraph, Edison the telephone and
monograph, and Cyrus Field, who
linked the new ana the old world
together with the Atlantic cable, were
Americans.
| Its statesmen are the pride and
wonder Of the world. Thomas JetEer-
son, James Madison, Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and
John G. Calhoon were Americans.
Tho first men who conceived and
carried into successful operation on a
large scale the idea of a republican
form otgovernment were Americans.
Noah Webster the greatest lexicogra-
pher of the world was an American.
The wealthiest, wisest, and wittiest
men of the world are citizens of the
United States.
The Washington monument is the
highest structure in the world. The
Yosemite valley With walls of gran
tie three thousand feet high and its
falls Of two thousand feet. and Yellow
stone Park with its geysers vie with
Switzerland in scenery.
The United States has the greatest
diversity of climate. You can go to
Florida and raise oranges and bananas
or come to Dakota and raise wheat
and oats. AS to the quantity of pro-
ductlons the North supplies the world
with wheat and corn, the South with
cotton and sugar. The free lands are
Il marvel. Name another country that
will give a man three hundred and
twenty acres of land if he will live on
it.
The people are descendants of all ma
tions. therefore they are a typical
people, having the keen perceptions OF
the French, the quick wit of the Irish,
and the steady determination of the
Germans. The predominant charac-
terjstic of the American is his ambi-
ton. To excel, whether in vocation he
is pugilist or a theological student, is
the uppermost thought in his mind.
We are not g war-like people, but
we do believe in protecting our rights.
Wehumbled the pride OF Great Britain
when there were but thirteen colonies.
We stood the shock of a civil war the
equal of which was never known in
the history Of man
In extent Russia has more territory;
but such large percent lies in the
arctic regions that it does not have the
amount of good tillable land that there
is in the United States. Besides Russia,
bound down by the chains Of political
sertdom, and an almost unpronounce-
able language can never be the
country that the United States will be.
| England cannot compete with us
for she has reached the zenith Of her
career and is IN the decline Of life.
No nation has such a network of
rail roads, nor excee DIS US in manu-
featuring interests.
Our farmers are in better shape than
those of any other nation on the Globe.
There is so much money in the treasury
that Congress is trying to study out a
plan to decrease its accumulation.
Perhaps some Of our Dakota farmers
could help them out Of their dilemma.
With such a people, such a govern
ment and such a start, as a basis, the
United States cannot help but lead all
other nations, by developing her yet
undiscovered resources, one Of which
is Alaska.
A few years ago il person was
asked for the boundaries of the U. S,
he would say that it was bounded on
the North by British America, South
by Mexico and the gulf of Mexico
on the East Ivy the Atlantic, and on tina
West by the Pacific Ocean. Some
later when the United States began to
develop they said she was bounded on
the North by the North Pole, and on
the South by the South Pole, on tie
East by the rising Sun, and On the
West by the setting Sun, but now we
say she is bounded on the North by
the Aurora Boreelis on The South by
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