The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-02-21

state s territory strip or land 10 miles
wide and As 4-5 miles long would be
left over
Possibly that would have been the
most startling of all the features of the
dream to him, for France occupied no
doubt very prominent place in all his
thoughts by reason of its friendly atti.
tude to the new power this side the sea,
but it would have been really of less
import than the fact that the distance
from the as yet unfoundod capital Of the
new republic to the most remote state
thereof was nearly third as much
again as the distance between London
and ST. Petersburg, And yet that again
is true, and the traveller who should jour.
ney as far eastward from Paris-then, as
now, the capital of France-as from
Washington, the capital Of the United
States, to Tacoma, would pass through
Rome, once the capital Of the greatest en-
pire of paganism, to Constantinople, the
ancient capital of the Byzantine empire,
on through Turkey, in Europe, into Per-
sia and to Teheran, its capital, and still
more startling comparisons of distances
might be made if Alaska, the unorgan-
lied arctic possessions of the republic,
were to be taken into consideration.
Washington dream would have
shown him, moreover, that i'll the years
to come his country was to lead all 9TH
ers in the production of wheat; of sill
yer; Of all but one, the then undiscover-
ed giant island, Australia, in the output
of gold; was to be second to Great Brit
ain only in the mining of coal, was to
be exceeded in foreign commerce only
by Great Britain and Germany, and was
to possess a larger internal commerce
and better facilities for internal com
municatiom than any other nation in the
world. He would have seen, too, that
his country was to be uniformly sue
cessful in whatever wars il became in
volved in with foreign powers and that
II was to be wrenched and torn by the
| most stupendous civil strife the world
has ever beheld; that principally ow-
ing to its existence and development, a
new problem in the affairs of govern
ment-the labor question-was to arise,
and that the differences between kings
and potentates were sometimes insignif-
cant by the side of the contests between
| employers and employees
In place Of the few schools, the scat.
tered writers, who treated almost ex-
clusively of politics, and the almost nom
existent artist classes; he would have be.
held vast universities equal in most re-
spects to the most venerable old world
| institutions of learning and exceliing
them in some regards, literary class
larger in proportion to population than
anywhere else On earth, especially if
those in active journalism be included,
| and great, enthusiastic and successful
following Of every 50 called artistic call
ing in the world.
Many things would have puzzled him
immensely, no doubt The problems Of
today, from their very magnitude, if
| from no other cause, would probably
have seemed quite as difficult as those
which confronted him mt Valley Forge,
perhaps more So There would have
been many apparent crudities. The tele.
graph, the railroad, the telephone, the
phonOgraph, the trolley car, the new
woman, the municipal boss, the mop
headed football player, the pretty type.
writer, the bicyclist of both sexes-all
these would have amazed him not less
perhaps than the poyglot speech of the
vast population and the vastly different
costumes and customs of the people.
/, d. MARSHALL