The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-21

the last secret. There Is no more sea.
Humanity alone is supreme and Is fast
clothing itself, building it's dictionary
and pushing its domain from equator
TO pole.
Two giants are to make new world
in the twentieth century-science and
democracy. They have already chal-
lenged the world to mortal combat
| Democracy is become international be-
fore it becomes national, and as tho fed
| Grafton of capital has already become
| worldwide SO the federation Of labor is
likewise becoming international.
Science was never anything else than
the supreme expression of universality.
Science acknowledges only the author
| ity Of truth. Truth can never be linn
tied by nationality. Truth is of the
infinite. 1t must in the nature of
things include all of this little planet
and moro besides than the mind of man
can grasp. The honor roll Of science
Is of the human race. France may fight
Germany, but there can be no conflict
between the laboratories of Pasteur and
Koch.
| The discoveries of one are the COM
mon heritage of the other, because they
belong first to humanity.
1t does not matter wether Humboldt
was German, Frenchman, Italian or
Englishman.
1t does not matter whether Spinoza
was a Jew CT "A gentle.
1t does not matter whether Darwin
and Huxley are Englishmen or Bud
dhists. Nobody asks--nobody cares.
It does not matter Their achievement
is the common property of humanity.
Science is the fraternity Of the race
over whose grand assemblies truth pre-
sides in peace and dignity. When sci
ence shall have subdued the world and
truth shall rule, where will then re-
main place for strife and jealousy and
bigotry and hatred and war?
Letters have from their very birth
been international. AS literature con-
tinues to assert its power over men, so
internationalism must grow. The world
that reads does not ask or care whether
, George Eliot was man or woman,
| English, German, French, Italian OF
: Spanish. She was human. She was
, | the daughter Of mankind in her inspired
/ utteranCc of the secrets of nature. Tol.
stoi, Hall Caine, Bourgot, Walter Be-
, SAINT, Maarten Martens, Howells and
= tho host of other living writers who fill
, | the press Of tho world today with the
= creations Of genius are not limited by
t national boundaries for their audience
r Their readers are the race.
= MUSIC AND ART.
3 Music laughs at national wars ant
r rumors of wars. a German wrote
1 Faust, " Frenchman set it to immor
K tai music, and an American girl trans
} lates its divine secrets to the listening
souls of the millions. The hymnology
: Of the world laughs at hatreds and sus
D picions, at creeds on paper and historic
o traditions.
d The Protestant church hears Catholic
cardinal sing Lead, Kindly Light,
i and reports it with increasing joy. The
Trinitarian sings with the Unitarian
Music is the language of the human
: soul. 1t cannot he limited by creed o.
= clique or province or nation. AS musi,
i lifts and sways the world it brings i
!. with each throbbiug note nearer t.
s unity and harmony of life.
v So of art. The great artists Italy ha
o given the world are claimed as the her
9 itage Of man. Who cares whether Ra
s phael was Italian or Dutch, whethe
s | Rembrandt was German or Irish?
does not matter. Nations do not pos
n sess such men. They belong to tn
|, fraternity of man.
f AS this sense of the beautiful shal
9 more and moro grow to dominate life
o with it must grow the large conception
r of the world life, and man gladly rec
pgnizes as his own all that is beautiful
e IN all nations and all ages.
. Let US then cease to hate one another
o Let us begin to federate nation witt
d nation. The American should lead il
= this work. God has poured into hi
f veins the blood Of all nations. He i
, the composite man. He should lcaC
h the way to the combination of nations
t He should begin with his own race ant
= language. Walk through those exposi
ton grounds and buildings and thinl
!, what invincible power would resul
+ from the federation of the Englisl
IS speaking world! 1t is as sure to com
0 as that God lives.
r Well did Mr.. Mcdowell declare ol
= the day the Columbian Liberty bel
. bade farewell 10 the old bell from
v Philadelphia; This new bell is typica
o of the new America--the America o
= the Worlds Columbian exposition, tn
o 1 America of the worlds parliament 0
: religions and the America of the whit
bordCrcd flag of peace. The next grea
n mission of the Columbian liberty bel
t is to be at Runnymede on MGGni
o Charta day, on June - next, that il
: may there be the central feature in tbt
proposed celebration by all of the Eng
lish speaking race Of tho greatest lib
: erty event in the history of tho race
q the birth of English speaking freedom
7 at Runnymede in 1915. This celebra
. ton will be the first practical step for,
9 ward in undoing the bunders of thC
I third George and in bringing together
+ heart to heart, hand to hand and shoul
der to shoulder the English speaking
world, that militarism may be obliterat
u ed from the planet, that even the prep
aration for war shall cease and tha
between nations differences shall be set
tied without thought of bloodshed al
they are between the states of the Un
0 ion through the supreme court of thC
United States"
May God hasten the day when peac,
. shall rule the world, and the grea
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