The Progress., 1893-12-23

land Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Greece.
Greenland, Holland, Hungary, India.
it!ly Japan, Luxembourg, Malta.
Mexico, Norway, Pacific islands, Po-
land, Portugal, Russia, Sandwich Is
lands. South America, Spain, Sweden,
switzerland, Turkey and the West In
dies. All of these continents, countries
and provinces, save one, are represented /
In Brooklyn, Boston and Baltimore. All .
save three are represented in st. Louis .
and New Orleans, and all save four in 4
! Cincinnati.
The world every man lives in is Just
as big as the horizon of his sympathies.
If the village life abso1bs his entire !
sympathies, his world is no larger than
the village.
THE STREETS OF CoSMOPOLIs.
No man of the millions who walked
through the grounds of the Columb bian
exposition can ever live again in q
small world. When he walks through
the turnstile into tAose grounds, he
leaves provincialism behind to tread
the streets of cosmOpolis. What gath
ering of faces from the uttermost linn
its of the earth.
AS we look upon the flags Of all ma
tions as they flutter in kindly unison
with the stars and stripes and mingle
with the Strange figures, faces and cos
tunes from the four quarters of the
globe we have brought home to us once
more, and with renewed emphasis, the
great new hope that fills the heart of
the thoughtful modern world.
1t is nothing less than this: That the
closing days of this century are heavy
with the promise of "A resistless interna-
tional life.
The typical international character of
this Columbian exposition speaks it.
All the great expositions held in the
world since 1873 were truly expert
ments of intcrnationalism, but none
so thoroughly as this. The ends of the
earth were literally brought together
here and bound together for year in
: the bonds of hospitality and peaceful
: rivalry. Our ports were opened wide.
e No grim customs officer levied his trib-
: ute The goods passed free. The ma
|. vies of the world met us in Hampton
r Roads and New York bay. We salut-
I ed one another with the language of the
high seas-the international code of sig
nals-the noblest tongue that God has
II yet given to man, for it is tongue that
e knows not faction or race or nation and
is answers only to the call of human need.
e Every signal pennant that tapped its
is silken tongue in the breeze, as Russia
d spoke to Brazil, Germany to France
Italy to Spain, each to America anC
le America to the world. was prophet
j. voice CRYING for the dawn of universe
4. peace and fraternity. AS the growing
IF needs of a common humanity created
0f this international language, so the eve
he growing needs of humanity will fore
VS. us at last to the recognition of a com
ii mon life.
al The Worlds fair has given us on
t. more object lesson about this vast ma
l. ton God is silently building over tn
a foundations of all nations. Let the ma
he tive American hereafter remember tina
ts the Italian peanut vender on the corne
ed is a human being, for, behold, he is re
er minded that great Columbus whom b
v has been glorifying and worshiping fo
on the past year was an Italian! Let hlr
if speak respectfully at least of the dar
n Spaniard, whose language sounds
strange, for Spain furnished the none
p to the Italian adventurer who dlsco'
nd erai his native land. Let us not be TO
Ell sure that the Catholic church is tn
I'M scarlet woman of the apocalypse an
ng the pope the anti-Christ, rememberin
ON that the convent of La Rabida Is sti
Ia loyal to Leo XIII.
* MODERN WONDERS.
N, The marvellous achievements of pro-
in ress in transportation and news hK
IN wise speak in prophetic voice OF the con
ng ing nation that shall be the worl'
Nearly every week the ocean record
ad lowered. The triple screw has no
.ed come to supplant the twin, and v
fe- have an iron monster of war plowlr
Id. through the sea at the rate OF 20 kno
lis, an hour. Liverpool is now nearly
RS close 10 New York as San Francisco.
=" When the dynamo shall have drlv'
+ba steam locomotive from the rail
in and the coal beavers from the depths
the the ship, then shall come to pass
in nrophet's CRY, And there shall be
bt more SEAL Distance shall no long
ent rule on earth. -,
ns Add to this tremendous fact OF e
her annihilation of space, which means
ave free circulation of peoples among c
ain another, exchanging IDEAS hopes al
and thoughts as well as the goods OF COZ 20,
of merce. that other epoch making fact
the cheap printing press run by steal
or and YOU are brought face to face WI
ing tbe present reality of a world life III
He must yet dominate sectional ana p'
The vincial life.
non The old hand printing press ma'
bu- with two men to work it, 25o impr
rtb. sions an hour. The great steam pres
now in use print, fold and paste