The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-23

the valleys of Italy on his career OF
conquest, she mapped out line of &C.
ton that brought her own irretriev-
able destruction. Rome's incessant
marauding expeditions after dominion
intuitively taught Attila and the
Alarics the art which finally engulfed
the proud mistress of the world in a
storm of war, misery and ruin. The
Frankish empire, built on the Sara
Genie victory of Charles Martel, prom
ised fair for a worlds landmark of
time, until Charlemagne's insane de-
sire for dominion over the Germanic
tribes brought down on it the inevi-
table fate of top-heavy political organ
iZations.
Through the modern era the same
political law is exemplitied bySweden's
loss of prestige after the battle of
Pultowa in her designs on Russia, by
the Grand Mogul Arungzebe in his
schemes for universal empire in the
Orient, and latterly the French Ma
poleonic empire in its great efforts to
bring Europe under subsection veri
fed the scriptural injunction that, "He
that draws the sword SO shall he
perish by the sword" In our own day
we see Russia pursuing the same path
way, and no political student would
risk his reputation for prophecy by
predicting long life to the scattered
British empire.
South to the isthmus, lie six sister
republics populated by an alien and
unsympathetic race with all the mer-
curial changeability of the Latin blood.
Unstable in character, unprOgressive
in nature, backward in the develop
ment of their advantages, and out Of
touch with the onward march of the
modern spirit of advancement, they
offer little promise of ever neutraliz-
ing into that tolerance of mind and
elasticity of thought that distinguishes
the American from all other national
dict that the Peninsular of Lower
California, which is naturally Ameri-
can and not Mexican, WILL at no dis
tant day, be enrolled in the Union as a
Florida Of the west, and the compile
ton of the Nicaragua canal will
render protectorate or the anneXa-
ton of Hawaii military necessity in
order to maintain our position as the
dominant power of the Pacific.
On the north, territorially speaking
lies the manifest destiny of the re-
: public. Canada, the last stronghold OF
i. monarchy in North America, has
since the inception of the republic
been the object of speculation in al
schemes embracing an extension OF
empire. With population not great
er than that of the state of Ohio il
: forms, as result of it's proximity an(
3 foreign allegiance, the burden of one
e half our diplomatic correspondence
9 AS the representative of a form O
4 government alien to this hemisphere
e blOssOmed from an annoyance into
4 nuisance, and from a nuisance is, b,
r virtue Of it's strategic. position for it
e European sponsor, fast ripening into
j. menace. If it comes by peaceful meth
a DDS, the conditions that will brin
O Canada into the federal union must b
e formed by time. The crossing owe
e the boundary of her best blood in ques
7, of wider and more promising fields o
n action, her chronic condition of poy
It erty and helplessness, the GROWN
It strength of the annexation sentiment
d the necessity of position, and inabilit
& to compete commercially with her al
IS powerful southern neighbor are som
IS of the causes that will effect tn
n destiny of Canada.
e The republic thus reinforced, wit
If the probable addition of the outlyin
II islands, would, in point of area, ran
as the greatest political fabric eve
# ruled by written constitution, an
IL one whose power of action and infl'
Is ence on civilization battles the min
ID to conceive. Here, let us hope, undo
or the 8gis of its power, inspired by tt
genial freedom of it's institutions, su
to rounded and encouraged by an acti'