The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-09

When 10 30 tfgIie~s Ar~'sEAuar Nhf4
: is .dde<i the. ,s,h tn back u NJ 10 Ia
Las, W. hav, "A r,->istleSs combination q
forces.
' Nor is this strength n any sense
= matter Of the imagination. IL Il a physi
, illogical fact.
The We. H. giving to the world Tor Tn
first time the composite man.
; Herr we hav.. the minSliug If all PEG
piles, races. kin irrd and tongues from
the uttermosi hints of the earth IN IN
fertile womb uf Auglo-Saxon national
ity.
Ont Of this mlngliug with the process
of tim. and culture. must come the i'm
perial manhood 90 the twentieth cen
fury.
The west in the breadth of Its human
itarian spirit j. already giving evidence
of the world breathing into Its nature
When PARKWAY frozen Russia was starv
ing, il was the young west that hfteJ
first her keen eye and strained IL acros.
the seas, and turning with tears of sym
pathy sent -four and grain and meat on
a mission of love AS high as God and
as broad AS humanity.
1.-THE BIGGEST THING on EARTH.
Third - ExhaustlesS resources. The
vastness of the fair Is symbolic not So
much of the nation IS of the west. Ii is
the inimitablc incarnation of the west
ern ideal-''the biggest thing on earth"
| Conscious that they have the biggest and
| richest country on the globe. ANYTHING
that stands for ii must he the biggest.
Their boast is not an idle one. Ii is a
solemn reality. 1t may be "A more sol
elnn one 10 MS iii the future.
Let us turn just here to DR.. Strong's
review of this western empire TO refresh
our minds upon the subject:
| OF the - states and territories west of the
| Mississippi only three are As small as all New
| England. Montana would stretch from Pos
ton on the east To Cleveland on the west and
| extend far enough south Ia include Richmond.
Idaho, If laid down in the east. would touch
! Toronto on the north and Raleigh On the
| south, while its southern boundary line is long
| enough to stretch from Washington city o
Columbus, o., and California, if on our Allan
| tic seaboard, would extend from the southern
| line of Massachusetts, to the lower part of
South Carolina; or, in Europe, IL would extend
from London across France and well into
Spain. New Mexico is larger than the United
Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ireland. The
greatest measurement of Texas is nearly
equal TO the distance from New Orleans TO
Chicago or from Chicago TO Boston. Lay Tex
| as on the face of Europe, and this giant, with
his head resting on the mountains of Norway
directly east OF the Orkney islands, with one
palm covering London, the other Warsaw,
would stretch himself down a, "o>s the king
dom OF Denmark, across the pirss OF Ger
many and Austria, scross northern Italy, and
lave his feet in the Mediterranean. Dakota
might be carved into a half dozen Kingdoms OF
IL a Id ;r,.>
ties, we might lay down the two Kingdoms OF
Judah and Israel in each.
Place the 5O,UU,tOD Inhabitants Of the United
States in 1880 all in Texas and the population
would not be as dense as that OF Germany.
Put them in Dakota. and the popul ation would
not be as dense as that of England and Wales
Place them in New Mexico and the density of
population would not be great as that OF
Belgium. Those 50OO,0O might all be com
fortably sustained in Texas. After allowing.
say, 5OOOO square miles for desert" Texas
could have produced all our food crops In 1879
grown, as we have seen, on l64, 2l5 square
miles OF land-coutd have raised the worlds
supply of cotton, l2OU,UU bales at one bale to
the acre. on $4,000 square miles, and then have
had remaining for a cattle range a territorr
larger than the state of New York
Accounting all OF Minnesota and Louisiana |
west OF the Mississippi, for convenience We |
have, according to the census of 1880 2ll5. 1876 |
square miles in the west and 854 S65 in the east
-tuAt TOT every acre east OF the MiSsissiDDi
we have nearly pa west of it.
THE VESTS WONDERFUL WEALTH
The great deserts, SO called, of the |
west have either proved fiction or are |
being rapidly transformed by irrigation
into some OF the richest garden spots of
the earth Mr.. Strong continues:
Nor have we finished our inventory of west
ern wealth. Its mineral resources are simply
hon No,
found in most of the states and territories O.
our western empire. From the discovery Of
gold TO June ~, 1881, California has produceS
$l,l7O.OO,OOO OF that metal. The annual prod
uct Is now from Sls,OOO,OU to S25,OOOOU From
1853 to 1880 Idaho produced $4,000 600 of gold
and silver, and Montana, from 1861 to 1879 no.
less than $l620O,W0 In ~ years Nevada pro-
duced $44S.545UU of the precious metals The
OF Colorado during the % years pre-
eeding 1883 W" SlG7,UnUD. Her output for
1882 was ST ,GUOn.
In wealth producing power a single rich mine
graf area of arabic land. For in
stance, the ComstOck lode in 1877 produced
t31 Uf2-2f'. Those IL insignificant looking holes
IN the side Of the mountain yielded more
wealth that year than 3.s90.0D acres planted to
corn the same year-that is. those few souare
rods on the surface in Nevada were as large a.
ail the corntields OF New England, New York
pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota collectively. Rocky mountain wealth
thousa nds OF feet into the earth /
for large areas of BARREN surface |
The agricultural resources Of q country do not
how, as formerly, determine Its possible nonu |
alton. rNr
Today easy transportation makes regions
populous and wealthy which once were unin-
Even if a blade of grass could not
2e made TO grow in all the Rocky mountain
states that region could sustain 100 900 600 sonIs
provided 1t has sufficient mineral wealth toeY
mango Tor the produce of the Mississippi valley
quartz mines have been known in the Rockies
or years which could not be worked without
iea'y machinery. The inner chambers Of {
roo $ great granite safes, where the silver and
Old have been stored for ages to enrich thI.
are f,Stened with time locks set
Or the advent Of he railway ]
4he projection # railway systems into the
fountains will rapidly de.elpp these mines.
or the year eHdin. May 81. 1850, the United .
.aleS pfoduced 90 tons ia pounds avordupois
gold and Loo ions 38S pounds of silver
these huge figures may be better Crashed s
erhaps by considering hat the gold repre- 8
'hts nve ordinary carlnat'S while q train of
" freight cars of the usual capacity would be
'QQl.ed TO transport the silver, S
THE NEW MASTER OF AMERICA. c
What can limit the future of this
Dung nation, with its coming imperiai
lanhnod, with its ekhaustless resources
mountain and plainF
Inc precious metals are but one item Y
the catalogue of the mineral treasures y
vast empire. Its agricultural power Z
beyond competition, Who can set a :,
NIT to its achiet emsnts ?
Inc conclusion is simple. The west is /
dominate this continent Y
u Is tlme that we recognized this fact J,
~ FACED it squarely. 1t should be rec. p
. : ,a w,th the htoadest patriotism and Is
IL Is Gods country. 1t is our CONN., e
y. IL Is our nation. These are onr =
'optsi our kindred and friends. our u
.o,hels and sisters. It is not a subject .
: pickering and jealousy. 1t is trhm- e
% call To Christian citizenshin r.. tn