The Progress., 1893-11-11

the inscription:
TO Chateau-Renaud, from Lamar
tine. Courageous service in the cans.
of order, 1S4S.''
Chateau-Renaud's service was this: In
February, 1913, when the French capi-
tai was in the throes of revolution. q
mob surrounded the Hotel de Vile and
menaced the deliberations of the assem-
bly,, which was sitting within.
AT the Theater Historiaue. where
Chateau-Renaud happened to be. he
heard of the turmoil, and a bright
thought came to him. He put on the
costume of representative of the peo-
pie III the year 1923. Then he hunted
up an old white horse, mounted it. and
with a small crowd at his heels rode
straight to the Hotel de Vile and
through the mob which was shouting
about its doors.
Dismounting he went into the hall,
where Lamartine was presiding.
Citizens" he shouted, deliberate in
peace! No one shall come i'll while | am
herer'
He went out and remounted his white
horse, and no one did come in. One
Enthusiastically attired man, with terrible
countenance, had completely overawed
the crowd. which probably would have
defied successfully regiment of soldiers.
When to matchless assurance there
is added the strength to back it up to the
last, we have a resistless combination Of
forces.
Nor is this strength in any sense a
matter of the imagination. 1t is physi-
illogical fact.
The west is giving to the world for the
first time the composite man.
Here we have the mingling of all peO-
Piles, races, kindred and tongues from
the uttermost limits of the earth in the
fertile womb of Anglo-Saxon national
/ ity.
| Out Of this mingling, with the process
4 of time and culture, must come the i'm
perial manhood of the twentieth CEN
tury.
The west in the breadth of its human
1 itarian spirit is already giving evidence
of the world breathing into its nature
.
/ ing, it was the young west that lifted
| first her keen eye and strained it across
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.
''THE BIGGEST THING ON EARTH"
Third -Exhaustless resources. The
vastness of the fair is symbolic not so
much of the nation as of the west. 1t is
the inimitable 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 it must be the biggest.
Their boast is not an idle one. 1t is a
solemn reality. 1t may be a more sol
emn one to us in the future.
Let us turn just here to DIR. Strong
review of this western empire to refresh
our minds upon the subject:
Of the % states and territories west of tho
| Mississippi only three are as small as all New
, England. Montana would stretch from Bos-
ton on the east to Cleveland on the west, and
extend far enough south to include Richmond.
| Idaho if laid down in the east, would touch
| Toronto on the north and Raleigh on the
south, while its southe boundary line is long
enough to stretch from Washington city TO
! 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, it 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
eoual TO the distance from New Orleans TO
! l.f fol I.ax- To
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 across the king
dom of Denmark, across the empires OF Ger
many and Austria, across northern Italy, ana
lave his feet in the Mediterranean. Dakota
might be carved into a half dozen Kingdoms of
Greece. or If it were divided into Is equal coun-
ties we might lay down the two Kingdoms OF
Judah and Israel in each.
Place the 5OOOOOOO 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 population would
not be as dense as that of England and Wales
Place them in New Mexico and the density OF
nopulation would not be as great as that n
Belgium Those 100000 might all be cor-
fortably sustained in Texas After allowing
say. 5000 square miles for desert" Texas
| could have prOOuCeQ Ill Oui iOOu NiOPo ~ Ao'e
grown. as we have seen, on l642l5 square
miles of land-could have raised the world :
supply of cotton l2,0OO,0OO bales, at one bale &c
the acre on 1900 square miles, and then have
had remaininr for a cattle range territory
larger than tl.s state of New York.
Accounting all Of Minnesota and Louisiana
west of the Mississippi, for convenience, we
have. according to the census of 1850, 2,llo' 10,
square miles in the west and S54, ,S65 in the east
| that is for every acre east of the Mississippi
we have nearly 2l% west of 1t.
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 VIC finished our inventory Of west
ern wealth. Its mineral resources are Simply
inexhaustible. The precious metals have beer
fonnd in most of the states and territories o.
opr western empire. From the discovery o.
s,oid to June 70, 1881, California has produced
| =, 40 ooo OOO of that metal. The annual prod