The Progress., 1893-11-11

Of gold and 1000 tons 8S pounds OF silver
"These huge figures may be better graspcd.
perhaps, by considering that the gold repre-
sents five ordinary carloads, while train OF
100 freight cars of the usual capacity would be
required to transport the silver.
THE NEW MASTER OF AMERICA.
What can limit the future of this
.oung nation, with its coming imperial
manhood, with its exhaustless resources
of mountain and plain?
The precious metals are but one item
in the catalogue of the mineral treasures
of vast empire. Its agricultural power
is beyond competition. Who can set
limit to its achievement?
The conclusion is simple. The west is
to dominate this continent.
1t is time that we recognized this fact
and faced it squarely 1t should be rec
ognized with the broadest patriotism and
fraternal helpfulness.
1t is Gods country. 1t is our coun-
try. 1t is our nation. These are our
people, our kindred and friends, our
brothers and sisters. 1t is not a subject
for pickering and jealousy. 1t is a trum-
pet call to Christian citizenship. 1t is
the trumpet call of God to his church TO
possess the land and save it in his name.
1t is time for the Christian citizen TO
sing with new and broader meaning:
My country, tits of thee.
Sweet land of liberty,
OF thee | sing.
1t is an hour when we must guard
against the curse of sectionalism by the
cultivation of the broadest and most
helpful nationalism. And there is dam
ger Just now of narrow jealousy and
petty hatreds based on sectional lines
obscuring our political horizon. Such
issues cannot live. We are one. We
are one, and the union was sealed with
the blood of half million heros. The
glories of the west should be the pride
of the east. And with western patriots
we must join our hands and hearts and
money to stamp out all provincialism,
all foreign traditionalism, that would
seek through foreign tongue or broad ex-
panse to separate us. We are one. 1t is
the decree of nature. 1t is the voice of
God. 1t is the hope of humanity.
THE DANGER OF MONEY MAKING.
.
/ into this looming western empire. Let
us build here the greatest institutions of
/ learning. Let us build here our strong
1 est churches. We must stem the tide of
materialism that, through the very chal-
/ lenge of the abundance of natures re-
sources, would obscure the spirit of na-
ture back of what we see.
There is danger that the people of the
west shall go mad with money making.
This is the tendency. As they go, the
nation of the future goes. 1t is the
trumpet call for the second man, whom
Carlyle said he called great:
A second man honor. and still more highly
him who is seen toiling for the spiritually in
dispensable not for daily bread, but the bread
of life. Is not he, too, in his duty endeavoring
toward inward harmony, revealing this by act
or by word through all his outward endeavors
be they high or low-highest of all, when his
/ outward and his inward endeavor are ore
| when we can name him artist, not earthly
! craftmen only, but inspired thinker, who will
| heaven made implement cOnquers heaven fOi
/ us? If the poor and humble toll that we have
food, must not the high and glorious toll fOr
him in return that he have light, have guild
, ance freedom, Immortality? These two in al
! their degrees nOnOr. All else Is CnaII anu
dust, which let the wind blow whittier it list
eth.
Shall we not strive with the solemnest
sense of responsibility to answer this
call?
Else we in turn must be crushed by
the vastness of the empire we have al
lowed to grow without sympathy and
help and guidance,
THE ELEPHANTS DEADLY FOOT.
In India they used to have curiou:
form of execution, especially used fol-
those who had committed the crime OF
treason. The condemned was executed
by an elephant. One of these ponderou:
beasts was trained to place his giant fOot
upon the head of the victim, and spring
ing forward crush his skull like an egg
shell.
Wecan take our choice. With giant de
velopment grow giant vices. We mus
develop giant forces for good or bt
crushed in the end.
DR.. Strong's prophecy of western su
premacy in 1885 seemed to us then rath
er farfetched. He said:
Beyond a peradventure the west is to domi
nate the east. When Texas Is as densely peo
pied as New England, it is hardly to be sup
posed her millions will be content TO see tn
5000 square miles east Of the Hudson send
senators to the seat of government, while he
territory of 1000 sends only two. The ives
will direct the policy Of the government, ant
by virtue of her preponderating population anC
influence will determine our national charac
ter and, therefore, destiny.
The worlds scepter passed from Persia &
Greece, from Greece to Italy, from I.aly q
Great Britain. and from Great Britain tn
scepter is today departing. 1t is passing on t
sGreater Britain" TO our mighty west, ther
TO remain, for there is no further west; beyon'
is the orient Like the star in the east whcl
guided the three kings with their treasure
westward until at length it stood still over tn
cradle of the young Christ, so the star of EN-
pire. rising in the east, has ever beckoned tn
wealth and power Of the nations westwar'
until today it stands still over the cradle o
the young empire of the west, to which tn
nations are bringing their offerings.
The west today is an infant, but shall on
day be a giant, in each of whose limbs shal
unite the strength Of many nations.
These seemed very strong words in