The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-03-05
MUSIC HALL
BOWLING ALLEYS
AMeRlcA'S ADVANTAGES
A Wen Known Author Says They Are Tn
equaled.
$40 Westminster St.


equaled.
Nature has furnished the United
States with resources for production
that is, with potential wealth-am-
pier and more varied than can be
found in any other country-an i'm
mense area of fertile soil, sunshine
and moisture fit for all the growths
of the temperate and even few of
the torrid zone, store of minerals
so large as to seem inexhaustible.
She has given it climate in which
the foremost races of mankind can
thrive and, save in few districts,
labor, an air in most regions not only
salubrious, but more stimulating
than that of their ancient European
seats.
She has made communication easy
by hugo natural water courses and
by the general openness and smooth
ness Of so much of the continent as
lies east of the Rocky mountains.
In laying out vast central and
almost unbroken plain she has des-
tined the largest and richest region
of the country to be the home of one
nation, and only one. That the
lands which lie east of this region,
between the Alleghanies and the At
lantic, and those which lie west of
it, between the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific, are also occupied by
that one nation is due to the fact
that before the colonization of the
central region had gone far means of
communication were invented which
made the Alleghanies cease to be q
barrier, and that before the Pacific
coast had been thickly settled the
rest of the country was already so
great in population, wealth and pow
er that its attraction was as irresist-
ible as the moon finds the attraction
of the earth to be.
Severing it's home by wide ocean
from the old world of Europe on the
east and q still wider one from the
half old, half new, world of Asia and
Australasia on the west she has
made the nation sovereign of its own
fortunes. II need fear no attacks nor
even any pressure from the military
and naval powers of the eastern
hemisphere, and it has little tempta-
ton to dissipate its strength in con-
tests with them. 1t has no doubt o
strong neighbor on the north, but q
friendly one, linked by many ties of
interests as we'll as kindred and not
likely ever to become threatening.
It had ON the south neighbors who
might have been dangerous, but for
tune favored it by making ono of
them hopelessly weak and obliging
tho other, strong as she was, to quit
possession at q critical moment.
Thus it is left to itself as no great
state has ever yet been in the world !;
thus its citizens enjoy an opportuni-
ty, never before granted to nation,
of making their country what they
will to have it.
These arc unequaled advantages.
They contain tho elements of i'm
mense defensive strength, Of i'm
mense material prosperity. They
disclose an unrivaled Held for the
development of an industrial civili-
zation. Nevertheless students of
history, knowing how unpredictable
is the action of what we call moral
causes-that is to say, of emotional
and intellectual influences as con-
trasted with those rooted in physical
and economic facts-will not venture
to base upon tho most careful survey
of the physical conditions of Amori-
On any bolder prophecy than this
that not only will tho state be pow.
erful and tho wealth Of its citizens
prodigious, but that tho nation will
probably remain one In it's govern
ment and still moro probably ono in
speech, in character and in ideas.
--Bryoes American Common.
wealth"