The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-01-21

was apparently realized There was neither
poverty nor riches. Wealth was uniformly
diffused. and none were condemned 70 hope
less penury and dependence. Less than
four per cent of the entire population lived
in towns, and there were but four cities
whose population exceeded 10000 persons.
Westward to the Pacific lay the fertile solitude
of an unexplored continent. its resources un-
developed and unsupported. The dreams
of Utopia seemed to be about fulfilled; the
wide, the universal diffusion of civil, politi-
cal and personal rights among the great
body of the people, accompanied by efficient
and vigorous guaranty for the safety OF life.
the protection of property ana the preserva.
tion of liberty. Since that time, Mr.. Presf'
dent, the growth in wealth and numbers in
country has no precedent in the building OF
nations. The genius of the people, stimu-
lated to prodigious activity by freedom. by
individualism, by education universal, has
subiugated the desert aad abolished the
frontier. The labOring capacity OF every in
habitant of this planet has been duplicated
by machinery. In massachusetts alone we
are told that its engines are equivalent to do
the labor of 100 10000. We now perform
one. third of the worlds mining, one quarter
of it's manufacturing, one fifth of its farm
ing, and We possess one sixth part OF its en-
tire accumulated wealth.
THE ANGL o SAXON.
The Anglo Saxon, Mr.. President. is not by
nature or instinct an Anarchist, Socialist
NihiiistOr or a Communist He does not de-
sire the reputation of debts, public or pri-
vate, and he does not favor the forcible re-
distribution of property. He came to this
continent, as he has gone everywhere else on
the face of the earth, with q purpose. The
10000 English colonists who came to this
country between 1920 and 1850 formed the
most significant, the most formidable migra-
ton that has ever occurred upon this globe
since time began. They brought with them
social and political ideas novel in their ap-
plication, of uncomfortable energy and pow
er. The home, the family, the State, indi-
vidualism, the right of personal effort, free
dom of conscience, an indomitable love of
liberty and justice, a genius for self govern
ment, an unrivaled capacity for conquest,
but preferriny charters to the sword, and
they have been memorable and relentless in
the accomplishment of their designs. They
were fatigued with caste and privilege and
prerogative. They were tired of monarchs,
and SO, upon the bleak and inhOspitable
shores of New England, they decreed the
sovereignty of the people, and there they
builded ga church without a Bishop and a
State without King" The result of that ex-
pertinent, Mr.. President, has been ostensibly
successful Under the operation of these
great forces, after two hundred and seventy
years, this country exhibits a peaceful tri-
umph over many subdued natiOnalities
through a Government automatic in its
functions and sustained by no power but the
invisible majesty of law. With swift and
constant communication by lines of steam
transportation by land and lake and sea,
with telegraphs extending their nervous re-
ticulations from State to State, the remotest
members of this gigantic Republic are ami
mated by a vitality as vigorous as that which
throbs at its mighty heart, and it is thought
the quickened intelligence that has been
communicated by those ideas that these con-
ditions, which have been fatal to Othe ma
tons, have become the pillars of our
strength and bulwarkS of our safety.
Mr.. President, if time and space signified
now what they did when independence was
declared, the United States could not exist
under one Government. 1t would not be
possible to secure unity of purpose or iden-
tity of interest between communities sepa-
rated by such barriers and obstacles as
Maine and California. But time and distance
are relative terms, and, under the operations
OF these forces, this continent has dwindled
to a span.
STRIDE OF PROGRESS
When the Atlantic cable was completed it
was not merely that a wire, finer by COM
parisOn than the gossamer of morning, had
sunk to its path along the peaks and the
plateaus of the deep, but the earth instan
taneously grew smaller by the breadth of
the Atidutic. n new NOluUlc tue history
of the world was opened. The to morrow of
Europe flashed upon the yesterday of Amer
lea. Time, up to the period when this eX-
pertinent commenced on this continent,
yielded its treasures grudgingly and with re-
luctance. The centuries crept from i'm
prOvement to Improvement with tardy,
sluggish steps, as if nature were unwilling
to acknowledge the mastery of man. The
great inventions of glass, of gunpowder, of
nrinfinU and the mariners commas
sumed Il thousand years. but as the great ex-
pertinent upon this continent has proceeded
the ancient law of progress has been disre-
garded and the mind is bewildered by the
stupendous results of its marvellous achieve
ments. The application of steam to locomo
ton on land and sea, the cotton gin, electric
illumination and telegrapy. the cylinder
printing press, the sewing machine,
the Photographic art, tubular and
suspension bridges. the telephone,
the spectroscope and the myriad
forms of new applications of science to
health and domestic comfort, to the arts of
peace and war, have alone rendered democ-
racy possible The steam engine emanc-
pated millions from the slavery of daily toll,
and left them at liberty to pursue higher
range of effort Labor has become more re-
munerative, and the flood of wealth has
raised the poor to comfort and the middle
classes to affiuence. With prosperity has at
tenUeu leisure, DOCKS. travel, the masses
have been provided with schools, and the
range of mental inquiry has become wider
and more daring. The sewing machine does
the work OF Il hundred hands and gives rest
and hope to weary lives. Farming, as my
distinguished friend from New York (Mr.
Evarts) once said, has become IA -'sedentary
occupation" The reaper no longer swings
his sickle in midsummer fields through the
following grain, followed by those who
gather the wheat and tares, but he who rides
in n vehicle is protected from the meridian
sun. accomplishing in comfort in a single
hour the former labors of the day.
BY these and the other emancipating devices
of society, the laborer and the artisan ac-
quire the means of study and recreation.
They provide their children with better op-
portunties than they possessed. Emerging
from the obscure degradation to which they
have been consigned by monarchies, they
have assumed the leadership in politics and
society. The governed have become govern
orS. The subjects have become the kings.
They have formed States; they have made
laws they have established localities and it
is not true, Mr.. President, that, during this
period, the rich have grown
richer and the poor have grown poorer.
There has never been a time since the angel
stood with flaming sword before the gates
of Eden when the dollar of invested capital
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