The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-02

total OF their annual output of seven
thousand million dollars in value
places the United States first among
the manufacturing countries of the
earth. One half the total mileage o.
all the rail roads and one quarter of ali
the telegraph lines in the world within
our borders. testify to the volume,
variety and value of an internal COM
merce; which makes these states, II
need be, independent and self support
ing. These hundred years of develop
ment under favoring political conditions
have brought the sum of our national
wealth to a figure which has passed
the results of thousand years for the
mother-land herself, otherwise the
richest of modern empires.
During this generation, civil war
of unequal magnitude caused the eX
penditure and loss of eight thousand
millions of dollars and killed six hun
dred thousand and permanently disa-
bled over million young men, and yet
the impetuouS progress of the north
and the marvellous industrial develop
ment of the new and free south have
obliterated the evidence of destruction
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 Asia till the pa
tient soil, aud work the shuttle and
loom as their fathers have
done for ages; modern Europe
has felt the influence and
received the benefit of the incalcul-
able multiplication of force by invent
i've genius since the Napoleonic wars;
and yet, only two hundred and sixty
nine years after the little band of Pill
grimS landed on Plymouth Rock, our
people numbering less than one
fifteenth of the inhabitants of the
globe, do Cne-thiTd of it's mining. one
fourth of its manufacturing, one
fifth of its agriculture, and one-sixth
of its wealth.
This realism of material prosperity,
surprising the widest creations of the
romancers who have astOnished and
delighted mankind, would be full of
danger for the present and menace
for the future, if the virtue, intelli-
gence, and independence of the people
were not equal to the wise regulation
of its uses and the stern prevention
of its abuses. But following the
growth and power of the great fac
tors, whose aggregation OF capital
made possible the tremendous pace OF
the settlement of our national domain,
the building of our great cities and the
opening of the lines of communication
which have unified our country and
created our resources, have come Nat
| ional and state legislation and super
vision. Twenty millions, vast ma
| iority of our people of intelligent age
acknowledging the authority of their
| several churches, twelve millions OF
children in the common schools, three
| hundred and forty-fiVe universities and
colleges for the higher education of
men and two hundred for women, four
| hundred and fifty institutions of learn
| ing for science, law, medicine and
theology, are the despair of the scotfeI
and the demagogue, and the firm sup
port of civilization and liberty.
Steam and electricity have changed
| the commerce MT only, they have rev
olutioniZed also the governments Of
the world. They have given to the
press its power, and brought all the
races and nationalities into touch anC
/ sympathy. They have tested and arr
| trying the strength of all systems tt
| stand the strain and conform 10 the
| conditions which follow the germlna
| ting influences of American demo
cracy. At the time of the Inaugural
ton of Washington, seven royal fami
lies ruled as many Kingdoms in Italy
but six of them have seen their thrones
| overturned and their countries disap
pear from the map of Europe Mos
of the Kings, Princes. Dukes and Mar
graves of Germany who reigned DIES
politically and sold their soldiers FOL
foreign service, have passed into his
tory, and their heirs have neither pre-
negatives nor domain. Spain has gont
| through many violent changes and thC
permanency of her present government
seems to depend upon the feeble life
of an infant prince. France, our an
cient friend. with repeated and bloody
revolutions, has tried the government
of Bourbon and Convention, of dIrec
tory and consulate, of Empire and cit
iZen king, of hereditary sovereign anc
republic, of Empire, and again repub
lie. The Hapsburg and the HohenZol
lern, after commissions which have
rocked the foundations of their thrones
have been compelled to concede consti
tutions to their people and to divide
with them the arbitrary power welded
so automatically and brilliantly by
Maria Theresa and Frederick the
Great The royal will of George thu
Third could crowd the American Col
ouies into rebellion, and wage war up
on them until they were lost to his
kingdom, but the authority of thu
crown has devolved upon minister
who hold Office subject to the approva
of the representatives of the people
and the equal powers of the house o
mons, leaving to the Peers only tn
shadow of their privileges. But TO
day, the American people. after al
the dazzling developments of the cen
fury, are still happily living under thu
government of Washington. The con
stitution during all that period ha
been amended only upon the lines lai'
down in the original instrument, ant
in conformity with the recorded opin
| IF fathers
addition was the incorporation of /;
bill of rights. and the last the embedd
ing into the constitution of the immof
tai principal of the declaration of In
dependence-of the equality of all mel
before the law. Nocrisis has been to
| perilous for its powers, no evolution
too rapid far its adaptation, and no eS
pansi0n beyond its easy grasp and ad
minIstration. 1t has aSsimilated Ill
; ditions, customs. conditions and Ian
: guages, imbued them with its spirit
and won their passionate loyalty an
! love.
The flower of the youth of the ma
: tions of Continental Europe are cor
: scrIpted from productive industrie
+ and are drilling in camps. Vast armie
D stand in battle array along the front
iers, and Kaiser's Whim or minis
l
, destructive war of modern times
, Both monarchial and republican go'
2 ernments are seeking safety in tn
t repression and suppression of Opposi
ton and criticism. The volcanic force
3 of democratic aspiration and socialis
/ tic revolt are rapidly increasing anC
: threaten peace and security. We tur
: from these gathering storms to tn
8 | British Isles and find their people
j the throes of a political crisis inyOlyin
s the form and substance of their Coz
t eminent, and their statesmen far frol
S confident that the enfraueiFised an
D unprepared masses will wisely us
e their power.
Y But for us no army exhausts our n
sources nor consumes our youth. Or
g navy must needs increase i'll order tn;
: the protecting flag may follow the e:
:. banding commerce, which is to Sn
o cessfully complete in all the markel
: of the world. The sun of our deStiT
y is sill rising, and its rays illumin
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