Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-01-04
THEY Will. RULE THE EARTH.
Ssm~ Reflection. About the Political Fut
ure of English speaking Races.

OF political relations | do not pre-.
sumo To speak. Some may be of opin-
ion that, If the United States hold, as
the are likely To hold. their political
unity. n state of such vast dimensions,
with wealth in all likelihood more
than proportionate. Will be menacing
or even perilous To the European
world.
do not share these fears. London,
with its 100000 of people. is far
better governed. far more under con-
troll than when it had but one-fourth
of its present population. | for one
am SO sanguine as to believe that long
before it has six or eight millions it
will have acquired. and will be in the
family use of. the incstimable privileges
of local self-government at present
wanting tn it,. and will be governed a
great deal better still.
Government is, | apprchend. more
highly organized now in the United
States than when they had one
twentieth or one-tenth of their present
population. Happily for mankind.
the period for large territorial con-
quests seems la be drawing rapidly to-
ward close. and the available surface
Of the planet i limited so Is to forbid
an extensive revival.
The internal difficulties of the states,
as we hope. have vanished. Their
causes of contention with European
powers. which were mainly with our
selves. have been, one by one, in
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uef'Ff rnIt t~>---.--.---nf orf~nyc can
only be furnished hereafter bv a spirit
OF wauton proyocation such as would
lie beyond all the ordinary limits of
human folly.
| do not understand prospective
European difficulties. But they appear
10 be wholly European. and they do not
reach across the broad Atlantic, which
i upon the whole. apart from other
incidents. a mighty guaranty for
peace. There has been no war across
that ocean for more than seventy
years: why should there be one for
seventy ar twice seventy more? Ii
would be presumptunus TO say there
Will no; and cannot be an unforeseen
controversy; but it need not be pre-
sumptuous to hold that there are no
British. no European reason for fore
seeing one. Especially if the same
true aud fine instinct which has taught
Americans that the union must be one
from New England to 'the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic seaboard to
the Pacific shalt with the lesson of ..no
farther and help them more and
more To realize the enormous advau-
tage OF continuous territory.
Ii IL IN the same cheerful spirit that
l would touch second political uues-
ton. with which some British minds
may be troubled. Will the uprising
nations, which are still dependencies
on the Britith crown continue for an
other century To own its supremacyp
Ny answer is simply this: hope
they may; l know of no reason why
they should not: why the elastic rela-
tons which now happily subsist should
not continue to find room aud verge
enough for including and adjusting
such novelties as may arise.
1t Is true that some great war might
stir upa new class of difficulties, but
do not despair of finding the resourc
IS of civilization To be sufficient for
solving them. In the recent history of
colonial relations centripelal has been
stronger than centrifugal force, and
he vague possibilities of separation
rave thus far been dwindiny, and
lot growing, with the lapse of time.
Even SO it is that. according to my
Judgment and experience. there is an
ppr"Nimatioh actually at work be-
ween Englishmcn and Americans.
they are being drawn nearer and
Iear I" one another, not by any artifi-
ial coHtrIraureS, but with 1.-The cords |
I IA man. ". +. Gladstone, in Eouth's
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