Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-04

vast structure erected by conquest and cemented by blood, to minister to his own ambition and pride, crumbled into fragments, and an exile and prisoner he breathed his last babbling of battle fields and carnage. Washington, with his finger upon his pulse, felt the pres ence of death, and calmly reviewing the past and fOrecasting the future, answer ed to the summons of the grim messen- ger, Ut is well" and as his mighty soul ascended to God the land was deluged with tears and the world united in his eulogy. Blot out from the page of his tory the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
 We stand today upon the dividing line between the first and second cen tury of Constitutional Government. There are no clouds overhead, and no convulsions under our feet. We rever- ently return thanks to Almighty God for the past, and with confident and hopeful promise march upon sure ground towards the future. The simple facts of these hundred years paralyze the i'm agination, and we contemplate the vast accumulations of the century with awe and pride. Our population has grown from four to sixty-five millions. Its cen ter moving westward five hundred miles since 17S9, is eloquent with the founding of cities and the birth of States. New settlements, clearing the forests and subduing the prairies, and adding four millions to the few thousands of farms which were the support of Washington's Republic, create one of the great grana- ries of the world and open e1haustless reservoirs of National wealth.
 The infant industries, which the first act of our first Administration sought to encourage, now give remuneratlve em- ployment to more people than inhabited the Republic at the beginning of Wash | ington's Presidency. The grand total of their annual output of seven thousand millions of dollars in value places the | United States first among the manufac- turing countries of the earth. One-haf the total mileage of all the railroads, and one-quarter of all the telegraph lines of the world within our borders, testify to | the volume, variety and value of an in | ternal commerce which makes these States, if need be, independent and self supporting. These hundred years of de- velopment under favoring political con ditions have brought the sum of our na- | tional 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 unequaled magnitude caused the expen- diture and loss of eight thousand mil lions of dollars, and killed six hundred thousand and permanently disabled over million young men, and yet the impet- uous progress of the North and the mar velous industrial development of the new and free South have obliterated the evi- dences of destruction, and made the war a memory, and have stimulated produc- tion until our annual surplus nearly equals that of England, France and Ger many combined. The teeming millions of Asia till the patient soil, and work the shuttle and loom as their fathers have done for ages; modern Europe has felt the influence and received the benefit of the ircalculable multiplication of force by inventive genius since the Napole- onic wars; and yet, only two hundred and sixty-nine years after the little band of Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock our people numbering less than one-fif- teenth of the inhabitants of the globe
 do one-third of its mining, one-fourth of its manufacturing, one-tifth of its agri- culture, and own one-sixth of its wealth This realism of material prosperity
 surpassing the widest creations of the romancers who have astonished and de
 lighted mankind, would be full of dan ger for the present and menace for the future, if the virtue, intelligence, and in dependence of the people were not equal
 to the wise regulation ofits uses and the
 stern prevention of it's abuses. But fol
 lowing the growth and power of the
 great factors, whose aggregation of capi-
 tai 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 Ma
 tiOnal and State legislation and supervi- sion. Twenty millions, vast majority of our people of intelligent age, acknow-
 ledglng the authority of their several churches, twelve millions of children in the common schools, three hundred and
 forty-five universities and colleges fOI . the higher education of men and two hundred for women, four hundred and fifty institutions of learning for science | y. pair of the scoffer and the demagogue and the firm support of civilization and liberty.
 Steam and electricity have changed the commerce not only, they have revo- lutiOniZed also the governments of the ! world. They have given to the Press its power, and brought all races and na-
 tionalities into touch and sympathy They | fac ta1 nd fr-x-i hn cir
 of all systems to stand the strain and | conform to the conditions which follow } the germinating influences of American
 Democracy. At the time of the inaugu
 ration 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. Most of
 the Kings, Princes, Dukes and Margraves
 of Germany who reigned despotically
 and sold their soldiers for foreign
 service, have passed into history, and
 their heirs have neither prerogatives nor
 domain. Spain has gone through
 many violent changes and the perma-
 nency of her present government seems
 to depend upon the feeble life of an in-
 fant prince. France, our ancient friend,
 with repeated and bloody revolutions,
 has tried the government of Bourbon
 and Convention, of Directory and Con
 sulate, of Empire and Citizen King, of
 hereditary Sovereignsand Republic, of
 Empire, and again Republic. The flaps
 burgh and the Hohenzollern, after foun- dations of their thrones, have been com pelled to concede constitutions to their people and to divide with them the arbi- trary power yielded so autocratically and brilliantly by Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great. The royal will of George the Third could crowd the Amer ican Colonies into rebellion, and wage war upon them until they were lost to his kingdom, but the authority of the Crown has devolved upon ministers who hold office subject to the approval of the representatives of the people, and the | equal powers of the House of Lords have