The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-19

With its hopes for future years,
Are all with thee, are all with thee
Here DER the mountain waves OF the
ocean have been brought the treasures OF
other lands. From the Gulf of Mexico
TO the Straits Of Magellan our sister re-
publies proudly come. bringing with will
ing hands Of the bounty the God of ma
ture has bestowed upon. them.
But there is one whom we would gladly
welcome, and who is not here-beautitui
island or Cuba, queen of the Antilles. the
dim religious light OF her hOary cathedral
Tails softly Ger the sacred ashes OF the
discoyerer. Rich and rare in all her prod
ucts in coffee, sugar and tobacco, in the
pineapple orange. banana, the mahogany,
ebony and palm, Her coast line is indent-
ed with harpors-- The altitude OF her
plateaus and mountains tempers with.
delicious GOODNESS the soft breeZes of the
tropics, and she has ever been and is now
endued with the Astounding sympathy
OF the people of this land of freedom.
May l not now paraphrase the language
Of Representatives OF the brave Greeks
when they were driving the unspeaka bic
Iurk from that land where ''the mountains
look on Marathon and Marathon looks
on the sea. I will not say. sir, that
they will succeed-that rests with hea-
ven-but for myself. if l should hear
sunk beneath the Spanish sword, their
last city had gone down into ashes and
that naught remained but the wide mel
ancholy waste where Cuba once was.
should reflect with the most heartfelt sat
isfaction that / have asked in the name
OF seventy million of free men that you
would give them at least the cheering
OF one Friendly voice:
1T is well to meet at this great exposf-
ton the people of these and other lands.
In the French exposition of 1919 it was
held by the minister of commerce mad
mlssible and injurious to admit the pro-
ducts OF other nations. No policy could
be more short sighted. 1t is exclusiveness
IN her own and ignorance of other lands
that has reduced China to the degrading
position she now holds. International ex-
hibitions are among the most benehcent
means for the advancement of the peO-
pie. Society I'm this has its accounting.
1t takes stock of its assets. A nation like
business house. must know how 1t
stands. II must make its exhibition to the
world. When the solvency of Jay Gould
was questioned by the magnates of Wall
street he called them into his business Of
fiee and spread before them the millions
OF value in his securities. There is an
old adage that seeing is believing, and
the exposition appeals directly to the
sense of sight. 1t constitutes a compen-
dunn of the accomplishments of a people.
1t focuses the intelligences of observant
men until the truth of a nations power
is not only made clear to all present, but
through the cumulative testimony OF the
witnesses becomes unquestioned by all
the world. The exposition is to the stu
dent of manufactures and the practical
arts what the luminous and eloquent COM
inentaries of Blackstone are to the stu
dent of law. Tt was remarked by the
celebrated James Otis when he received
copy OF that work that If he had pos
sessed it when beginning his studies t
would have saved him seven years of
arduous labor; 1t is most Judicious to
profit by close contemplation of the
works of others. The German emperor
at kiel turned away from the festivities
incident to opening his canal to go abroad
our own splendid ship, the New York.
This he did, not merely to enjoy the ar
tistic Inequalities of that fine officer,
Fighting Bob, but for the benefit of the
INN qtsfn1 In,
truck to stoke hole, every feature of our
gallant cruiser which walks the waters
like thing of life. So, too, Herreshof
and Watts, the builders of the Defender
and the Valkyrie stood four mortal hours
in the broiling sun of the Erie basin,
when the rival yachts were docked, neith-
er beStowing glance upon his own crea-
ton, but scrutinizing the work of the
other No doubt they wished their eyes
We're what Sam Weller called patent
double million magnifyin' gas microscopes
of hextra power
1.-THE young and strong civilization of
the west has reached and appropriated the
golden shores of the Pacific. 1t found
foothold along the Atlantic, from the
bleak and icy rocks of Labrador to where
the tepid waves of the tropics break over
the fantastic coral and the cleaning sands
of the Florida keys. 1t thronged the
mountain passes which divide the Attain
tic slope from the great valley of the Mis-
sissippi. 1t appropriated the alluvial
plains and mighty forests of that garden
-
Waters it pursued its way, toiled up the
tilt of the continent to serrated SUBMITS
of the mountains which are the ridge pole
of America, and thence downward to the
golden strand of the occident. 1t aSsim-
Hated all the healthy blood that came.
But the old Anglo-SaXon stock has ever
predominated. The advancing wave was
fringed with the fierce wildness of the
frontier Westward has been the inspir-
alton of our history, and since the west
ward shore is reached, the tide of strong
and resourceful men, strong backed,
brOwn-handed, upright as the pines must
pour backward through many channels
to the fruitful and opulent land which in
their westward progress they had passed
with but a glance There were grave rea-
sons which diverted this army of civilza-
ton from the soil of the southern states.
Slavery was here and the totling masses
from other lands could not. or would not,
compete with the slaves. But when slaV-
cry had been abolished. the obstacles to
healthful immigration were scarcely less
inSurmOuntable. What was termed the
negro problem'-that rs the doubt enter
tained' by multitudes as to the effect of
the presence of the negro upon the life
and advancement of the southern people
was ever present. There was never the
slightest danger of continued negro con-
troll in the local affairs of a southern
state Those who apprehended it had done
well to consider that of all the American
union, the southern people present the
largest percentage of the old Anglo-SaXon
stock. OF the white men of Georgia per-
hapS 80 per cent. are descended from men
who We're patriots either actively or in
sympathy with the American revolution.
Even now there is but IA per cent of for
eign blood in the population of this state.
They had done Well to consider the i'm
periouS and commanding nature of the
Anglo-Saxon race. They might have re-
Elected that the twelve provinces of India,
with one hundred and fifty feudatOry
states, an empire of one and a half million
of square miles, and people with two hun
dred and forty millions of dark-skinned
men, are under the absolute control of
men of our race who inhabit little island
on the other side of the world. And yet the
people of the British India had an ancient
and famous history when the Roman le>
gionaries first landed on the savage shores
of Britain. They were overcome by
handful of men of our race and are wisely
directed on all the path of modern prog
ress by the English government as read
lily as it controls a parish IN Yorkshire or
Kent.
Il here decI are that the so-called race
question does not exist. There are mill
ions of color I'd people who live and who
will live am ong many more millions Of
white people Why shall any one forge
a race issue? Honest and decent men will
accord TO tlle negro that just measure
of favor asp a member of society the
laws afford him, and which his conduct
deserves, ard the long processes of time
will determine whether his presence is