The Irish standard., 1889-07-06
The FUTURE OF AMERICA.
Future Problems Which the People
of This Great Country
Must Solve.
VIEWS OF BISHOP SPALDlNG.

VIEWS Ut BISHOP SPALDlNG
"Aere in the New World Let Each MAJ
Work for All ard All Work
for Each"
The American people are not foolish
enough to think they have no problem
yet to solve. Mark you. my brethren, We
do not want to have 500,000,O00 beings
here in the United States; we shall have
these in spite of ourselves. In a hundred
years from to-day there will certainly
be 500,000,C00 of people in the pres
ent territory of the United States. But
we ale not aiming at that. We are not
aiming to become the wealthiest nation
on earth; we are bound to become the
wealthiest nation on earth. Our wealth
will make all former riches look like
poverty. We are not aiming to give all
men as much personal liberty as order
will permit. Already we have done
this. We must keep up this liberty.
What is our aim to be? Why, what
every enlightened American has-it is
to lift up the people, to make nohler
men and women, more enlightened,
more moral, brayer and truer. We
want the highest race here, not the
most populous, not the richest, but we
want the highest race. What do we
do with our animals? We seek for tine
best breed of animals; and shall we not
have in this country the best breed of
men? We want the very best blood Of
the earth. We come from the very
flower Of the Aryan race, and we come
from the best blood Of them-from the
peasant and farming population, not
from the scrofuious aristocrats and
kings of earth. We want Americans to-
be higher race OF men than have ex
isted. I will tell you, my friends, I my
self believe that the people Of the
United States to-day are the rnost
superior people on earth. l would not
boast at all. [ would not say a word
boastfullY about this, but I have
travelled in various countries, and am
old enough to observe, and am con
vinced that there is no nation ON Gods
earth that can bring forward the same
number of men and women OF high
average that we can here in the United
States Again, no other people in the
world are 80 egar to make headway, to
learn. make Inventions. We do not
want to conquer any nation. The idea
OF conquest was an old barbarous one.
We could conquer Canada, couldn't
we? God knows we could take all
America. but we don't want to do it.
The American people do not want to
do it; they have outgrown that barbar-
GUS era. What will we do2 We will
help Canada and Mexico and Cuba. I
believe the American people look upon
these countries as countries in which
they are Interested. They want to do
them good.
WITH 5000, 900 INHABITANTS.
I was down in Cuba a few weeks ago.
found the people there all looking to
the United States; they say: would 60
God we did belong to you!" In Mexico
where I was I found the intelligent
people delighted that the railroads had
been builJ, that our machinery IS
coming to Mexico, that our en1erpris-
ing men were gong there to open the
mines and establish factories We
want to help them. Mexico is a repub.
lc. Let them be federal with u.s. Our
interests are one. Let us help them,
encourage them, eniighten them, stimu
ate them. That is our mission. It is
DUE mission beyond doubt, gentlemen,
20 do good in the world, first Of all to
10 good in the world, first Of all to
begin at home here. There are child
ZEN now living who will see Chicago |
With 100000 of people. In country
ike this the great danger is from 1gno
.ance, from Immortality, from low.
Ii anything is going to
10 us harm it Will be having in our
cities and towns thousands of ignorant
Of idle criminals, of low
minded men and women. We must
work against this. There is practically |
10 difference between the two parties
low. There is the tariff and the free
rade, and they both lie about 1t. It
'eally does not matter to man of prin-
;iple which partv wins. There is bound
@ grow up new party. 1t may be
'low, for these organizations are treach
Republican and Democratic
but one of them is bound to go away,
md we are going to more and more
IDENTIFY politics with religion. Ameri
,ans know that righteousness is life.
We know the worldly temporal bless
ngs of sobriety, Of honesty, of thrift,
# prudence and economy. Now, since.
We are to create a state Of affairs bene-
lcial to all men, We are going to.l
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