The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

discovering itself in the relaxation of tn,
old time rigors of localism The civilized
man has no longer that intense attachment
to locality and blood kin which character
lied his ancestors. The word country ha.
altogether lew meaning in the ears o.
the modern peoples. Fatherland anC
mother tongue are still good for us-for al
OF us-and will be good for posterity, but
we shall no longer confound the world
about the boundary of desert or go to
war because of dialect. 1t might almost
be said that the ancient ambiguous virtue
OF patriotism has been swallowed up in the
love Of the human race
The leading causes of this change of SEN
tlmept among the nations are not far 10
seek. The increase and diffusion of knowl-
edge among men has been SO rapid and
far reaching that the horizon Of human
sympathy and brotherhood, with their at
| tendant penumbra of happiness, hae been
indefinitely expanded. The habits, the
character, the purposes of every people
under the sun have been openly revealed
and laid bare to all the rest. The sunlight
OF information and truth has flashed upon
| the nations, and whoever will lift himself.
| or let himself be lifted, but a little above
the plain may discover the heart and hope
and tendency Of every considerable com
munity in the world. The heart beats.
the hope expands, and the tendency draws
ever more strongly in the direction of in
| ternational fraternity.
In the second place, the era of intercom-
| munication has come The railway, the
telegraph, the international post are every
where. The time Is not far distant when
whoever will may send a written message
under his hand and seal from the rivers to
the ends of the earth for penny. The
| flash of thought to thought, the echo of
word to word, the response of pulse beat to
pulse beat can be seen and felt around the
globe Physical science, that blessed evan
gel of modern life, has at length broken
the barriers and surmounted the obstacles
Whl0sl nave separated the kindreds of the
earth. The bulwarks of Iocalism and
prejudice are hurled from their foundation
and cast into the sea. The human race
has, so to speak, been turned together: ac-
qualntance has come with intermingling,
and mutual confidence with better ac,
quaintance. After this interchange of beue-
fits corresponding change of opinion and
hope has quickly followed; and out of this
has sprung, as if by magic, the sentiment
OF brotherhood among the nations-the
dream and vision of Internationally. The
reign of knowlet-e has thus preceded the
reign OF revlyi faith and fraternity
among the civilized peoples of the world.
Internationally has hitherto existed as
an idea or sentiment; but it is fast becom-
ing fact-a reality The legislation of
every enlightened people is now tinged
more or less with the precepts and princi-
pies of political unity among mankind.
The efforts thus far made toward the es-
tabllshment of international relations on
the basis of concord and fraternity have
been rather vague and tentative No
doubt politicians and alleged statesmen Of
high and low degree, long accustomed to
slide about in the grooves and crevices of
mere policy and statecraft, have fought shy
of the broader doctrines of International
lty. No doubt the fact of Internationally
is too large and sublime for the mental
compass of the gadfy political priests who
for the most part manage the affairs of /
states and Kingdoms.
We may therefore note with special in |
terest and pride the recent movements |
made or making in our country in the di- |
rection of the forward march We have |
seen within the past two years the progress
and elimination of an effort on the part of |
the government of the United States to
hold at the national capital a Pan-Ameri-
can international conference We have
seen represented in that body no fewer than
nine of the Anglo-American, Spanish
and Portuguese-American states.
We have seen carefully debated by the
members of that body the great questions
Of arbitration, reciprocity, intercontinental
steamship communication, sani-
5ary laws, customs, silver coinage, patents,
,rade marks, weights and measures, regu-
ations for ports Of entry, extradition, in
ernational banks, and the general improve
nent of the law of nations. No doubt the
'esult has not proved as practical and fruit
ul as we might have hoped. No doubt the
Whole movement has been somewhat preiu-
Iced by the fact that the administration
nd the secretary OF state, representing a
,arty rather than the country as a whole,
laye not been able to command for the en-
the full confidence OF the party out
# power.
But the American International confer !
nee of lSS9 was by no means barren of !
.reat results More recently we note with
leasure the rise OF a movement to pro- !
note on still broader scale the interests
+ an-republicanisrn. The movement in
uestion seems to have taken its rise from !
be patriotic societies of the United States.
he order of the Sons of the Revolution
as been sort OF nesting place for this
eminent. About year ago. at q ban
uet given by the members of that society !
I New York city. the idea was suggested
hat the holding OF pan-republic con- {
ress in the United States during the Co
Imbian year was q project not only feast
le but highly desirable. The suggestion
this notion struck fire in the assembly,
nd she thought took shape in the foru,a- ,
on OF committee TO promote the enter ,
rise. Enthusiasm and zeal supplied the
lace Of money and orge enizatlon, and the ,
rst body OF workers in the cause was
resently enlarged 70 q committee OF 200
.embers, embracing many OF the leading
atesmen, publicists and thinkers of the
nited States.
The first meeting of the great committee
AS held in New York city on the 9Th of
ecember. 1880. Through the efforts of
ne chairman, Judge William II. Arnoux.
Id the secretary, Gen William O. Nc
Dwell, creditabie attendance was Sc
lred. Representatives were present from
lily half the states OF the Union. and con-
aeTaole enthusiasm was shown n the
scussions- Several working committees
ere 81 once constisuted-nanely, a COM
,IEJee on plan and scope, an executive
'mmittee, a committee on address 70 the c.
eoples OF the world, committee 70 me b
oFlaIize the congress OF the United States "
behalf OF the project and several others 81
ne vast work which arose in outline BE- q
re the men interested in the enterprise al
- thas divided and ap0ortioEsd 70 those IL