Dodge City times., 1890-07-04
TIE FOURTH OF JULY.
Plain Truths for Patriots.
BY COL. ALIX. DUKE BAILIE.

BY COL. ALIx. DUKE BAILIE.
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/ "nHM V standing as We do,
M4E M Han just across the
HI EN h S h o l d and
uhHH 8k within the second
WK NDcentury of our
NJ" stituti onal
N Government, we
" " can best show our
reverence for the benefits and giories OF
the past by sinking for o:ce all Spread
caeleism," and seriously considering
, with the solemnity becoming men who
would do their full duty as citizens of the
United States. those perils which con-
front our future prosperity and grandeur,
rise toward the lead Of all nations of the
earth.
Il may have been citing that noise and
general jolliicHt on, abandonment to
/ "lrag" we're tie prominent features OF
the Fourth of July of the lOyhood of our
nation, but We have reache our manhood
days now and must Put away tue rattles
and rcmps Of children. nd consider and
act as becomes those who have reached
maturity and from whom the world right
fully expects and demands mans per-
Torrance and resulting g0od for bu-
! mauity.
/ There are clouds overhead and convul-
sions threatening under our feet, and
while We reverently return thanks to AL
mighty God for the past, We should care
gully survey and consider tho dangers
that exist on the .round We must march
over in the future.
1t is not we'll to look backward; tho
marvellous past of the years since noise
and uni. ersal jubilee celebrated or first
lneependt noe Day, if We contemplate
this alone, paralyzes the imagination, aud
as We gaze upon the vast accnm ila,ions
OF the centurS gene, Sc and pride daz 10
our eyes and We arc unable to look for
ward to the pitfalls open in ur pathwav.
/ II We neglect to look forwar with the
keen eyes OF men, and 10 properly esti-
mate and provide to avert the dt structi1e
influences undermining our national ex-
1osSuS0, 4OA tu0 ICbuNb Will II Ahboe AuSNs
itahly follow we will alone be 10 blame,
and our punishment will be correspond
ibg'y severe.
since the Fourth of July becoms recog-
hi.el as the tai day o our nation. our
population has grown from four TO sixty
flve millions. Its enter moving west
wa-d one thousand miles since 1890, is
eloquent with the found ng of cities and
the birth of Sta es. New settlements,
clearing the forests end subduin, the
prairies, and adding four millions to the
few thousand farms which were the
support of the early Republic. cre-
ate one Of the gre;.. granaries of the
world, and open exhaustless reservoirs of
the first act of our first administration
sought to encourage now give remuner-
ative employment to moro people than
inhabited the Republic when first estab-
lished. The grand total of their annual
output of seven thousand millions of dol
lars N value places the United Sta es
first among tho manufacturing countries
of the earth. One. half the total mileage
of all the railroads and one-quarter of all
the teieRr. ph lines Of tho world With
our borders testify to the volume, variety
and value of an internal commerce which
makes these States. if need be, and il
wisely used, independent and self-sup-
porting. The hundred ears of develop
ment under favorable and unfavorsble
pol .tical conditions have brought the sum
Of our national wealth to figure which
has passed the results of thousand
years for the motherland herself. other.
wise the richest Of all modern empires.
During this generation o civil war Of
unequalei magnitude caused the expendi-
ture and loss Of eight billions of dollars,
and killed over six hundred thousand
AMI permanently disabled over q million
gallant men, and yet the impetuous prog.
Iess Of the North and the marvellous de-
velopment of the new and free South
have oblitersted the evidences of des;ruc-
tion, and. in all save political questions.
msds the war a memory only, have slim
MA ed produc ION until our annual sur.
plus nearly equals that of England,
France, and Germanv combined. The
teeming millions Of Asia till the patient
soil and work the shuttls as their fathers
had done !or ages; modern Europe hat
felt the influence and received the benefit
of the incaleulsb!e multiplication OF
force | y inventive genius since the Ma
rc'ecnic were: and yet only 270 years
after tue little band of piiRiims ianuel
ON Pl; mouth Rock our peol le. number
ing / Sc than ne-fifteenth of the inbah-
itsnt< OF the globe. do one-th rd of its
miuiDg. one fourth of its manufac urin2,
cnc-fif:h Of its agriculture, and own one.
8 xth of its wealth.
This rral;sm Of materitl prosperity.
surprising tho Widest creations Of the
romancels Who have nstonisbed and de.
lighted m,nk nd, only serves 10 more
plainly oint the drugers Of the :esent
and menace for the future if the virtue,
inte ligence and independence of ouI
people are not equal to the wise regula-
tion Of its uses and tbs stern prevention
of its a'uses.
Following the grow n and power of the
great factors whose aggregation OF cap
ital made possible the tremendous pace
the building Of our gre It cities, and the
opening of the lines Of communication
which have unified our country and Gre
ated our resources nave come national
and State le i-lational and supervision. |
In this legislation, and the hands tc
which it 10 delegated, rests the great dan. |
ger to which our liberties and our pros
per.ty, our natiopal existence is exposed. |
It is the people who, by their own acts. |
delegate these legislative powers-E |
whomf
1t may ne safely assumed in this nipe-
teenth century Eat the value of prorli- |
EeJt Cit cH, WuVc0 PiOAAsiH0uSO - ucfA'cS L
fror.'' 'ticI activity. is Raugsd Sv |
his conduct toward end treatment Of |
those with whom, in the course Of his |
chosen avocation, he II brought in con- |
ta:e It will also b granted that tho or |
diuary rules which govern mankind are /
equally applicable to the class which we |
arc accustomed to regard ss politicians.
II follows. il these propositions be
true, that those Who most nearly approach
the rules Of Intercourse which the expe-
Iience OF aces has shovn TO Do sne Ussr
adapted 70 humanity In its rslations to
its compooent paFts, should b the most
successful - politicians.
But II th krue?
Il needs but . glance as thb political
arona o9 bo-dsy to cstnhliah the tact,
Dost q pase1k. that sincao regard for
Ne levq u1ieA soaiDev Aae eseebliihsd