Kansas City daily journal., 1895-10-05

and cried and run and romped like tn,
free and fearless little maid who finds a duZ
en years the loveliest OF ali playthings. W.
have lately had an opportunity to ge
an inkiing Of the present height, breadth
ana depth OF human life. activity and On.
dtaN9r' and the magnitude and complex
we owe II and the burdens 1t puts upon
us. And TINS Is calculated TO sober, us
social storm impends. 1t may be in your
day and mine the clouds viii sweep down
and the ocean of air and the ocean OF wa
ter VIII lock themselves in TITANIC combat
such as has been pictured by that great
RUSSIAN artist In ms picture long pain
and fallen across the deck OF Columbus
shaken ship. our picture may be without
the sunlight and the caravel of ciyiliza-
some men say. But We believe not. We
are not TO 20 the way of other nations.
They tell us that a ray OF light dis
patched from earth 10 bear to heaven the
vision of created Adam can hardly yet
have reached the remote fixed stars We
can imagine some leisurelH stellar citi-
zen. to whom a year is as a day. waiting
on some far off globe to receive that vs-
ion. Perhaps he has sort OF celestial
telescope prepared to catch ana interpret
the messengers of light as they arrive.
Perhaps he sits with some celestial tcle-
phone in hand to gather in the dialog,ue
As well as the spectacle OF the earthly
drama. And so age after age will pass
across the scene. Again and again VIII
his eve grow dim and his heart faint as
he traces the history of man in its un-
Winding course Of bioodshed and sin aud
suffering and defeat Nations Will rise
NJ hope ana a glow Will come into his
heart. And then. one after another, he
" i'll see them stagger and fall and perish
from Off the earth: and sight and sound
Will be too much for him to bear. FINAL
~ he will reach the story of our own day,
and the present Asia viii roll into view,
and his eye Will sweep across that conu-
neut and gather in the toliug millions of
China and the inhospitable loneiipess OF
the IimalaEdS. and the cruelty of siberia,
and the degradation Of lndia and ne won l
find much there to comfort him.
Then on. across the great armories Of
oppressed Europe, and the eternal, change
less juuel-s of savage Africa. and there
wont b- much to comfort him there. And
then. eagerly. yet reluctantly, as If fearing
his eye viii sweep across the turbulent At
iautIG and rest upon America. Here his
asne him studying US in the sun
light lie sees our busy millions, he
marks our marvellous material achleVe-
lurd nature, annihilated space. and led
time captive In all that he sees there is
less OF despair and more of hope than the
Old World vision brought TO him-aud yet
he j. troubled. And | can imagine when
the sun goes down and the moon comes ont
fore him in the shadows, ne may dimly
discern the ghosts of departed nations, of
Greece and Rome, brooding over us in
he night ana that he catches, faint and
FAR a sad refrain like the signing of the
Is Ne ftinl, so shalt thou fail. And then
tui then, perhaps he VIII catch glimpse OF
he Genius of our own country America |
liGht with a face not of age, but of
,hilihoo,d - fearless, trnihful graceful,
Mil fail from her libs this answer to the |
;houls of bygone ages: We have free la |
'ou had not; free and universal suffrage, |
which YOU mad not Ana then can see |