The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
OUR CoUNTRY's FUTURE.
Eloquent speech of Attorney General
Griggs at Trenton.

Attorney General Griggs delivered a
noteworthy address before the New Jer-
sey Republican state convention at Tren-
ton on Thursday He was particularly
eloquent i'm forecasting the future of the
| country. He said, in part: ga
Lift up your eyes to the hight where.
| glory-crowned, the genius of American lib
erty points to a future pregnant with pro-
digious good to all mankind TO fresh fields
for the extension of American trade and
commerce; new opening for the investment
of American capital; wider scope for the
active energies of American young men.
to more frequent glimpses of the Ameri-
can flag to voyages over the oceans; mer-
chant shipping multiplied manifold I'm the
harDors of the world; with a navy large
enough and strong enough TO enforce our
| just demands and the rights of American
| citizens as promptly and as efficiently
| as Dewey enforced the views of the gov
eminent at Manila bay; an army large
| enough 10 serve the reasonable require
| ments of 100000 of people without put
| ting the administration to the risk of
| quick and terrible disaster in case of sud
| den war; the maintenance of our foreign
! diplomatic service upon a footing COM
mensurate with our power and import
ance, so that 1t will no longer be neces-
| sary to seek for ambassadors and minis
| ters among those only who are blessed
with private incomes sufficient TO MAIN
! tam proper establishment abroad with
out regard to the salary attached TO the
| office.
The country demands now brand of
| craftsmanship new to Americans-the
| proper method and measures for the con-
troll and government of colonial depend
encies, and the adjustment of colonial in
terests and affairs to the interest of the
home governmental field wherein parti-
| san politics should not easily be allowed
| to enter, but where broad and enlght-
ened state policy may have fun scope to
work out plans whereby all the blessings
of essential liberty and twentieth century
| civilization may be assured to the peo-
pies that are to be under our paternal
care, and reciprocal benefits may be OBJ
| tanned for our own countrymen.
These new duties and new relations
will add fresh dignity to American citi-
zenship; will raise the sense of official and
political obligation they increase re-
sponsibility. They will take the people
| out of the treadmill rounds of domestic
politics, where issues are too often arti-
| fetal ana transient. New thoughts, new
| questions, new fields fresh hopes, broader
views, wider influence, all these will
come, as well as troubles and disappoint-
ments, and temporary failures and dis
| couragements, which will but serve to
call forth renewed energy and effort UNI
til they are overcome.
''Who can set bounds to the expansive
! spirit of American enterprise? Only forty
| years ago an American periodical declared
| that the banks of the Mississippi river
were the shores at the termination OF a
| vast ocean desert over 1OG0 miles In
BREADTH which ii was proposed 10 ira
verse, IL at all, with caravans of camels,
/ i saT, 10 A. 49,, 10.
the establishment of large communities,
| agricultural or commercial. That desert
| now blossoms like the rose, and parallel
| lines of iron rails bear the product Of I'M
| measure BILE areas of fertile lands East
| and West to the markets of the world. The
ambitious energy of American enterprise
| can take its choice to-day of delving for
gold in the frozen wastes within the Arc
| tic circle OF of the filling the generous
| soil of islands washed by tropic seas, and
/ in the heat of the day may rest in the
shade of the palm trees, all under the
| protecting guarantee of our flag
This has been a year unequaled for
progress and accomplishment The hand
of man has not fashioned nor his eye
| foreseen the work that has been wrought.
| Call 1t fate, the progress of events, Provi-
dence, God, what you WILT has been
| a leading upward and on, the drawing
| forward by Irresistible impulse of this
!
| world.
ITO Capt. Gridley, at his post on the
deck of the flagship Olympia, on the
! memorable May morning, came the quiet
word of command, as Dewey SAID, You
| may begin firing, Gridley.' The guns that
responded sent forth death and destruc-
/ ton but in the light of their flashes were
revealed a new hope and a better life for
| millions for whom heretofore the sun OF
liberty and civilization had never shone
| except through the murky clouds of semi
| barbarism and superstition.
and so this nation enters upon new
era. Do not doubt that she will be equal
| To the responsibility. / believe in the ca
paclty of Americans to govern; to govern
| themselves and to govern others. set
| up no dogma of infallibility, but expecting
! mistakes and delay and disappointments.
| | believe that the boundess capacity ana
the splendid courage Of America, with her
| high sense of justice, her appreciation OF
the rights of man, viii in the new duties
placed upon us work out marvellous good
for the peoples that have come under our
guardianship, and greater glory for our
| country.
and how we have been blessed already!
| All the old root of bitterness between
! North and South removed What years
and years of political effort could not do,
was done in a moment when our standards
were set toward a foreign foe, all the con-
summate tact and grace of our Republi
can President refused to make any dis
tinction between Federal and Confederate,
but put Lee and Wheeler side by side with
Kent and Shafter, 'Yanks' and Johnnies'
all keeping step together TO the music Of
the union Stout old John Adams, stand
ing in the royal presence, the first accred-
tied minister of the new republic to the
mother country, speaking Ike the noble
gentleman and wise statesman that he
was, said 10 King George; I shall be the
happiest of men II l can be instrumental
In restoring an entire esteem confidence
and affection, or, In better words, the old
good humor between people who have the
same language similar religion, and
kindred blood
at has been the happy result OF this
war TO have brought back forever, we
trust that entire esteem, confidence, and
affection, the good old humor. between the
people of the North and the South as in
, the days when Adams and Hamilton and
Jay labored and conferred in fraternal