Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05


reverence for the benefits and glories of
the past by sinking for once all spread
sagleism," 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 gr indeur,
rise toward the lead of ali nations OF the
sarth.
1t may have been fitting that noise and
general jollifcaton, Abandonment to
brag" were the prominent features OF
che 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, 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 good for hui
mainly.
There are clouds overhead and convul-
sions threatening under our feet, aud
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
ever in the future.
It is not we'll to look backward; the
marvellous past of the years since noise
and universal jurilee celebrated our first
independence Day, if we contemplate
this alone, paralyzes the imagination, aud
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 our pathway.
Il 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 ex-
lstence, for the results which must lnev-
itably follow we will alone be to blame,
and our punishment will be correspond
ingly severe.
Since the Fourth of July became reeog
nized as the natal day o our nation, our
population has grown from four to sixty
i've millions. Its center moving west
ward one thousand miles since 1890, is
sloquent with the founding of cities and
she birth of States. New settlements,
clearing The forests and subduing the
prairies, and adding four millions to the
Few thousand farms which were the
support of the early Republic, cre-
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-
alive 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
lars n value places the United Sta e'
nrst among the manufacturing countries
Of the earth. One-half the total mileage
of all the railroads and one quarter of al
the telegraph lines of the world within
our borders testify to the volume, variet'
Ina o ant al NH tql
makes these States, if need be, and i
wisely used, independent and self-sup
porting. The hundred years Of develop
ment under favorable and unfayoiabl
20 teal conditions have brought the sun
If our national wealth to figure whicl
has passed the results OF thousan,
years for the motherland herself, other
wise the richest Of all modern empires
During this generation a civil war o
snequaled magnitude caused the expendi
ture and loss of eight billions of dollars
aud killed over six hundred thousan
an permanently disabled over a millio
gallant men, and yet the impetuous prog
Esas OF the North and the marvellous de
Yelopment of the new and free ooutl
lave obliterated the evidences of desiruC
tion, aud, IN all save political questions
ssRde the war memory only, have stim
ed production until our annual SUI
plus nearly equals that of England
France, aud Germany combined. III
tssming millions Of Asia till the patier
coil aud work the shuttle as their father
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