Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-14

mates each OF its inhabitants; for the
almost incomprehensible spirit OF unity
which inspires their different activities
and makes every single individual con-
tribute to the prosperity Of the whole.
This is what a stranger will never be
able to understand. The first question
stranger asks when he comes to chi
cago is, "How is it possible that In so
short time city could grow to be such
an enormous centre of business" AND
the citizen answers: because so many
intelligent business men came and set
tied here from the very first. They
knew Chicago was the first business
place in the world"
GROWTH OF AMERICAN CITIES.
And the stranger never will be able
to understand; and the less the stranger
understands the more the citizen OF
Chicago has to understand. Count Leo
Tolstoi says that nations in their devel-
opmeat follow the same rule as the law
Of gravitation by which body acquires
more and more rapidity according TO the
Increasing distance from the point OF
departure. No nation has given a more
striking illustration of that splendid
comparison than the American nation,
and no city in America has proved that
principle with more intense power than
the city Of Chicago.
Now, in conclusion, let me give you
piece OF advice. When you want to
learn what nation IS, what nation Is
capable of; when you want to know her
ideas, her aspirations, his character;
when YOU want to know o nations soul
do not study her from the reports OF
the daily papers or the cheap pamphlets
which are written for one occasion aAd
the fame Of which lasts but month or
two. Learn nation from the precious
contributions she has given to the eter-
nal treasures OF humanity; learn her
from what she did for universal science,
universal art; learn to know the nation
from her beacons, from those men she
is proud OF, and first OF all-let politics
alone. Do you think stranger coming
to this land of liberty will not feel at
least surprised in seeing whole nation
vote for something she does not want?
Do YOU think stranger would be anna
BILE if he approached every American
citizen through the ideas he gets OF
what you call your systems" OF cleo
ton or of your methods Of municipal
affair?
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.
Leave politics alone if you wish to
keep your impressions in purity and
freshness, for as long as politics and
politicians exist there can be no happi-
ness on earth. Leave politics alone,
and never teach your children that any
form of government, as such, can be an
evil in itself. It's not who speak to
you; not l, who belong to a country
which is governed by what you call "a
desDotic government" but poet OF the
liberal English race who says;
For forms of government let fools contest;
What e'er is best administered, is best.
Do you know what names comes to
our mind when we think OF Americans?
Lincoln, Longfellow, Emerson, Edison.
Do you think we have not our equiva-
Tents? Or are you afraid 10 get a too
flattering opinion OF us? If so, will
tell you that prefer to have a better
than a worse idea Of people, 1t compels
me to treat them in a more human
way. n CODpdbIlOI Salu VnO OIuOA N"J
that all Russians thought all Americans
were angels, and that all Americans
thought all Russians were bruteS. Now.
once In a while, thse angels and these
brutes come together, and both are
deceived in their expectations.
: We see that you are not quite the
angels we hoped you were and you see
that we are not quite the brutes you
thought we were. Why that dissp-
polntment on one side, that surprise on
the other? Why that establishment?
Because we will not remember that we
are men and nothing else, men and
nothing more, for we cannot be any
thing more.
HIGHEST AIM ON EARTH.
Let us believe that to be q man is the