The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-03
By COL. ALEX. DUKE Battle.
BY JESSIE ETHEL.

reverence for the benefits and glorles OF
the past by sinking for once all spread
eagleism, and seriously considering,
with the solemnity becoming men VINO
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 Oh the
earth.
1t may have been fitting that noise and
general Publication, abandonment to
"brag" were the prominent features OF
the Fourth of July of the boyhood Of our
nation, but we have reached our manhood
days now and must put away the rattles
and romps of children, and 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 good Tor hu-
manity.
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
fully survey and consider the dangers
that exist on the ground we must march
over in the future.
It is not we'll to look backward; the
marvellous past of the years since noise
and universal jubilee celebrated our first
independence Day, if we contemplate
this alone, paralyzes the imagination, and
as We gaze upon the vast Accommodations
of the century gone, awe and pride dazzle
our ewes and we are unable to look for
ward to the pitfalls open In cur pathway.
II we neglect to look forward with the
keen eyes of men, and to properly esti-
mate and provide to avert the destructive
influences undermining our national en-
istence, for the results which must 1nev-
itably follow we will alone be to blame,
ingly severe.
Since the Fourth of July became recog-
nized as the natal day o our nation, our
population has grown from four to sixty
i've millions. It's center moving west
ward one thousand miles since 1890, is
eloquent with the found ng of cities and
the birth of States. New settlements,
clearing the forests and subdu1ng the
,prairies, and adding four millions to the
few thousand farms which we're the
support of the early Republic, Gre
ate one Of the great granaries Of the
world, and open exhaustless reservoirs of
national wealth. The Industries which
the first act of our first administration
sought to encourage now give remuner-
ative employment to more people than
inhabited the Republic when first estab-
lished. The grand total of their annual
output of seven thousand millions of dol
iers value places the United Sta es
first among the manufa curing countries
of the earth. One-h the total mileage
of all the railroads and one-quarter of all
the telegra phi lines Of the world within
our borders testify to the volume, variety
and value of an internal commerce which
makes these States, if need be, and If
wisely used, indel endent and self-sup-
porting. The hundred ears of develop
ment under favorable and unfaVolable
political conditions have brought the sum
of our national wealth to a figure which
has passed the results of thousand
years for the motherland herself, other
wise the richest of all modern empires.
During this generation a civil war of
unequale magnitude caused the expendi-
ture and loss of eight billions of dollars,
and killed over six hundred thousand
and permanently disabled over a million
gallant men, and yet the impetuous prog
ress of the North and the marvellous de-
velopment of the new. and free South
have obliteTated the evidences of des rue
ton, and, in all save political questions,
made the war memory only, have slim
ulated produc Ion until our annual sur
plus hearty equals that of England,
France. and Germany combined. The
teemino millions OF Asia till the patient
soil and work the shuttle as their fathers
had done or ages; modern Europe has
felt the influence aud received the benefit
of the incalculable multiplication of
force by inventive genius since the Ma
poleonic wars; and yet only 270 years
after the little bandof pilgrims landed
on Plymouth Rock our people. number
ing less than one-ffteenth of the inhab-
itsnts of the globe, do one-third of its
mining. one fourth of its manufacturing,
one-ffth of its agriculture, and own one
sixth of its wealth.
This realism of material prosperity.
surprising the widest creations of the
romancers who have astonished and de-
Lighted mankind, only serves to more
plainly point the dangers of the present
and menace for the future if the virtue,
intelligence and Independence of our
people are not equal to the wise regula-
ton of its uses and the stern prevention
Of Its abuses