The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-03

Greenland, Holland, Hungary, India,
Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, 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 AL save four in
Cincinnati.
The world every man lives in is just
as big as the horizon of his sympathies.
If the village life absorbs his entire
sympathies, his world is no larger than
the village.
THE STREETS OF COSMOPoL1S.
No man of the millions who walked
through the grounds of the Columbian
exposition can ever live again in
small world. When he walks through
the turnstile into those grounds, he
leaves proyinciaiisna behind to tread
the streets of cosmopolis. What gath
ering of faces from the uttermost linn
its, OF. the earthi
AS we look upon the flags Of all ma
tions as they futter 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 q resistless interna-
tional life.
The typical international characters OF
this Columbian exposition speaks it.
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 boads 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 HamI ,cn
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 a tongue that
knows not faction or race or nation and
answers only to the call Of human need.
Every signal pennant that fapped 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 tho dawn Of universal
peace and fraternity. AS the growing
needs of a common humanity created
this international language, 60 the ever
growing ,needsSof humantywill force
ussatslast 10 dc resognition of COM
mon life.
The Worlds fair has given us one
more object lesson about this vast ma
ton God is silently building over the
all nations Let the ma
tive American hereafter remember that
the Italian peanut vender on the corner
Is human being, for, Behold. he Is re-
minded that great Columbus whom he
has been glorifying and worshiping for
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 rs not be too
sure that the Catholic church is the
scarlet woman Of the apocalypse and
the pope the anti Christ, remembering
that the convent of La Rabida is still
loyal to Leo XIII.
me marvellous achievements OF prog
ress in transportation and news like
wise speak in prophetic voice Of the COM
ing nation that shall be the world.
Nearly every week the ocean record is
lowered. The triple screw has now
come to supplant the twin, and We
have an iron monster Of war blowing
through the sea at the rate Of 25 knots
an hour. Liverpool is now nearly as
close to New York as San Francisco.
When the dynamo shall have driven
the steam locomotive from the rails,
and the coal beavers from the depths Of
the ship, then shall come to pass the
prophets cry, And there shall be no
more sea!'' Distance shall no longer
rule ON earth.
Add to this tremendous fact Of the
humiliation Of space, which means the
free circulation Of peoples among one
another, exchanging ideas, hopes and
thoughts as we'll as the goods of COM
merce, that other epoch making fact Of
the cheap printing press run by steam,
and you are brought face to face with
the present reality Of world life that
must yet dominate sectional and pro-
vincial life.
The old hand printing press made,
with two tnen to work it, $50 impress
sions an hour. The great steam presses
now in use print, fold and paste Is
page paper at the rate Of "a, 900 per