The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-21


through the grounds If the Columbian
exposition can ever live again in
small world When he walks through
the turnstie into those grounds, he
leaves provincialism behind to tread
tho streets of cosmopolis. What gath
ering of faces from the uttermost lin.
its of the earthl
As we look upon the flags of all ma
tions as they hutter 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.
II 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 1t.
All the great expositions held in the
world since 1878 were truly expert
ments Of internationalism, 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.
No grim customs officer levied his trib-
ute. The goods passed free. The ma
vies Of the world met us in Hampton
Roads and New York bay. We salut-
ed one another with the language of the
high seas-the international code Of sig
nals-the noblest tongue that God has
yet given TO man, for it IS tongue that
knows not faction or race or nation and
answers only to the call of human need.
Every signal pennant that tapped its
silken tongue in the breeze, as Russia
spoke to Brazil, Germany to France,
Italy to Spain, each to America and
America to the world, was prophet
voice crying for the dawn of universal
peace and fraternity. AS the growing
needs of n common humanity created
this international language, 30 the ever
growing needs of humanity will force
us at last to the recognition of a COM
mon life.
The Worlds fair has given us one
more object lesson about this vast ma
tion God is silently building over the
foundations Of all nations. Let the ma
tive American hereafter remember that
the Italian peanut vcndcr on the corner
is q human being, for, behold, he is re-
minded that great Columbus whom he
has been glorifying and worshiping foI
the past year was an Italian! Let him
speak respectfully at least of the dark
Spaniard, whose language sounds SO
strange, for Spain furnished the money
to the Italian adventurer who discov.
cred his native land. Let us not be toe
sure that the Catholic church is the
scarlet woinan of the apocalypse ant
the pope the anti-Christ, remembering
that the convent Of La Rabida is still
loyal to Leo Iii.
| MODERN WONDERS.
The marvellous achievements of prog
ress in transportation and news like
wisespeak in prophetic voice of the com
ing nation that shall be the world
Nearly every week the ocean record il
lowered. The triple screw has nov
como to supplant the twin, and W,
have an iron monster of war plowinl
through the sea at the rate of 25 knot
an hour. Liverpool is now nearly a!
close to New York as San Francisco.
When the dynamo shall have driver
the steam locomotive from the rails
and the coal beavers from the depths Of
the ship, then shall come to pass tht
prophet s cry, And there shall be NJ
more seal" Distance shall no Longer
rule on earth.
Add to this tremendous fact of tht
annihilation of space, which means tn,
free circulation of peoples among ont
another, exchanging ideas, hopes ant
thoughts as well as the goods of com,
merce, that other epoch making fact o.
the cheap printing press run by steam
and you are brought face to face witt
the present reality of a world life thai
must yet dominate sectional and pro
1 vincial life.
The old hand printing press made
with two men to work it, $50 impres
sions an hour. The great steam presses
now in use print, fold and paste 1f
| page paper at the rate of $4,000 pei
hour, or, in other words, give us 8S4,
900 pages in 60 minutes instead of ESQ
When man shall thus be able to know
daily the affairs of all the world, the
whole world becomes his own. Wheth
er he likes it or not, he cannot escape
this world consciousness with its obli
cations and duties.
Likewise the great guns we saw OF
the warship5 and in the Krupp exhibit
with awful lips of steel tell us of the
necessity of loving one another or &C
cepting the ,0nly alternstive-annihila-
ton.
The progress in great guns and en-
gines of war is the sure harbinger of 6
world peace that will come by and by
when we have tried them,Once or twice
Sublime indeed is the truth sung in tn,
ode by Martha Foote Graw to tho great
Krupp gun, published in the last Cos
mopolitan:
Thy lips stern argument is more for peace
Than war, o cannon kingl When thou dos
bend
| Thy seaward gaze, thou seemst upon the end
/ OF life 10 brood mans futile wrathb increase
1 And the inanity of battles lease.
/ Hadst thou 30 hal OF men been made to lend
| Thy fateful breath. In battles din TO blend
Thy voice, thou hadst long since made war to
| cease.
Then stand, mute prophet, at the portal where
A child's soft touch can thousands keepat bay,
Guard thou tho futures gateway while the
| mirth
| or gods shall take mans quarrel into air.
Balk thou worlds armies In their vain array.
30 shalt thou bring the ionged for peaos on
THE WORLD UNITED,