Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-05

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moneys, th1enes scepters, COWS Lows
and all, the entre possessions Oh > II
100000 people;S aud again he. sgys
Great Britain is byttar the rlshest
nation of the old world, any our
wealth exceeds hers by$276,OW,00 900 !"
Thus by our mechanicar-sEill and
commercial enterprise we lave Gre
ated in ten decades what other ma
tions have not createdin ten centu-
ries and let it be observed that we have
only begun to develop our resources,
My friends all around the world and
always except in campaign years
upon our own blessed soil our name
stands in the eyes of men as the
bright particular symbol OF material,
progress and power. Never in the
history of nations have men grown
rich so fast as here. Never has labor
been so we'll fed or clothed, or housed
as here. Never has the poor man
been so rich as here. 49, {,
And then here are political equality
and social liberty. These jewels have
never shone with such wondrous
lights in any other national structure.
They are living stones and they
have been welded in shis land and
have brought forth Opportunity:
Men of every country have heard OF
the birth aud are fastening to our
shores. photographers have had the
name of this wonderful child IN their
ponderous tones for centuries, but
they had little more than, the
name, at the,most only prophecy
of his comiAg The world waited to
nee him "a America. Somebody has
said america. Why that is but
another name for opportunity" I'm
derthe stars and stripes is opportu-
nfty for everybody and to do every
thing that is worth doing. There is
opportunity for the poor and the low
born. There is opportunity for other
coopers and vendors of mouse traps
to become rail road kings, for other
boot blacks to become governors, for
other pillow boys to become congress
men and senators, for other stupid
youngsters to grow into pulpit
orators who shall shake the world
as with the word of Beecher; for
other mule-drivers and wood haulers
and rail sp!itters to turn Presi-
dent Here is opportunity for wo-
men. The kitchen girl may by
ways of virtue and self culture pass
to the life of the parlor and the
drawing room and the maid of all
work, to the social throne, and the
shop-girl to be mistress in the
White House.
In this land Of opportunity few
things are impossible to brains, in
tegrity and industry But if our politi.
cal and social system is favorable to
individual development it is like
wise congenial to corporate enterprise.
1t fosters institutions as well as men.
We have the greatest railwyy, tele.
graph and telephone systems in the
world. We have more great news
papers, magazines and publishing
companies than any other nation. We
have more varied and more complete
system of popular education. Labor
atory and museum and schools of
technology and scientific and philo,
sophical societies have fourished for
many years and have helped to make
us what we now are, the school mis-.
tress Of the race in invention
and the mechanic arts. | will not
note further particulars.
Our social and political advanta-
| SOS dIO EluSblSuilO luuuLnCIdplc do
they are Unreasonable. will only
add that the American is the King of
men. None so great as he has ever
been. Behold him and thank God.
l now ask you to look for very few
minutes at the only other jewel that
blazes in our national temple which
| shall mention this morning. 1t is
more precious than the Kohinoor. 1t
is more brilliant than the sun. 1t is
stronger than the eternal hills. IN
like them and like the other great
gems which we have already noted, it
lives and breathes and acts and wins
victories. Need l tell you that
speak of the stone which those other
nation builders rejected, the spiritual
rock, Christ Jesus?
My friends the United States of Amer
lea is at once the consummate flower
of Christianity and her most congo
NAL home. Here Government has
done most for her chiefly by letting the