, 1889-05-02


activity and thought. and then impress(
upon the memories OF your children his
deliberate judgement: "Until time shall
be no more viii test of the progress
which our race has made in wisdom and
virtue be derived from the veneration paid
to the immort. name of Washington"
Chatham, who. with Give, conquered an
empire in the East, died brokpn-hearted
at the loss of the empire 10 the West, by
foilics which even his power and eloquence
could not prevent. Pitt saw the vast crea-
tious OF his di plomacy shattered ut Auster.
litz and fell murmuring: my countryi
how | leave my countryE Napoleon
caused q noble tribute TO Washington To
he read at the head Of his armies. but, un-
able to rise to WashinRton's greatness,
witnessed the vast structure erected by
conquest and cemented by blood, 10
minister to his own ambition and
pride, crumbled into fragments, and an
exile and prisoner he breatbed his last
babbling of battle6elds and carnage.
Washington, with his 6oRer on his pulse,
felt the presence of death, and calm ly re-
viewing the past and forecasting the fu-
tu-e, ans swered to the summons of the
grim messenger, ut is WELL" and as his
mighty soul assembled TO God the land was
delueed with tears and the world united
in his eulogy. Blot out from the page of
history the names of all the great actors of
his time in the d rama of nations, and pre-
serve the name Of Washington, and the
century would be renowned.
We stand TO. day upon the dividing line
between the first and second century OF
co stitutional government. There are no
clouds overhead and no convulsions under
our teet. We reverently return
THANKS TO ALMIGHTY GOD
for the past, and with confident and hope.
Sal OrOunU In.
wards the future, The simple facts OF
these hundred years paralJz the imaRina.
tion and we contemplate the vast accumu.
lations of the century with ave and pride.
Our population has grown FROM four to
sixty.hve millions. Its center moving
westward five hundred miles since 1889 is
eloquent with the founding of cities and
the birth of states. New settlements,
clearing the forests and subduing the prai-
ries. and adding four millions to the few
thousaude of farms which were the sup
port Of Washington q republic, create one
Of the great granaries Of the world and
open exhaustless reservoirs OF national
| wealth.
The infant industries. which the 6Bt
| act of our first administration sought to
| encourage, now give remunerattve EN-
ployment to more people than inhabited
the republic at the beginning OF Washing
| ton g presidency. The grand total OF their
| annual output OF seven thousand millions
of dollars in value, places the United
States irst among the manufacturing
countries Of the earth. One-half the total
mileage of all the railroads, and one'quar.
ter of all the telegraph lines OF the world
within our borders. testify to the volume,
variety and value of an internal commerce
| which makes the, states, II need be. in.
dependent and selfsupporting. These
| hundred years of development under favor
| ing political conditions have brought the
! sum Of our national wealth to a figure
which has passed the results of a THOUSAND
years for the motherland, herself, other
wise the richest OF modern empires
During <esis generation, civil war OF
unequallpd magnitude csused the expen-
diture of ~ 900. .0OO, 900 and killed 00,0O0
and permanently disabled over ZOO. 600
young men. and yet the impet1ous pro-
gress of the North and the marvellous in-
| oustrisl development Of the new and free
South have obliterated the evidences OF de-
struction, and made the war memory,
and have stimulated production until our
annual surplus nearly equals that Of
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY
combined. The teeming millions Of Asis
till the patient soil and work the shuttle
and loom as their fathers have done for ages
modern Europe has felt the influence and
|
multiplication of force by inventive genius
since the Napoleonic wars; and yet only
269 years after the little band Of pilgrims
| landed on Plymouth Rock our people sum-
bering less than ons-6fteenth OF the in
| habitants of the globe, do one-third OF its
mining. one.fourth Of its manufacturing,
| one.fifth Of its agriculture and own one
xth OF its wealth.
This realism of material prosperity. sur
passing the widest creations of the ro-
mancers who have astonished and delight
| ed mankind. would be full OF danger for
the present and menace for the future, II
the virtue, intelligence and Independence
II the people were not equal to the wise
| regulation of its uses and the stern pro-
vention OF its abuses. But following the
growth and power Of the great factors,
whose aggregation Of capital made posi-.
BILE the tremendous pace of the settlement
Of our national domain the bnilding OF
our great cities and the opening OF the
| lines Of communication which have united
our country and created our re-
| sources, have come national and
state legislation aud supervision.
Twenty millions, a vast majority of our
| people Of intelligent age, acknowledging
the authority Of their several churches.
twelve millions OF children In the common
versities and colleges for the higher
education of men and two hundred for
women, four hundred and fifty institutions
OF learning for science, law, medicine and
theology, are the despair Of the scoffer and
the demagoRue, and the firm support of
CIVILIZATION AND LIBERTY.
Steam and electricity have changed the
commerce not only, they have revolution-
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