The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-16
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How the World Is Becoming United Intermarriage, Business and Enlight- enment-An International Court or Arbitration Needed.

man English, etc., results III llleIha- tional blood relationships,
 The emigrant has a fatherland by birth and another by adoption.
 Each great country of the world has large national representation in every other
 Steam. electricity and the advance of the arts are eliminating space and time and approximating the nations, making travel easy, acquaintance general
 Enlightenment is removing antago- nisms and allowing the peoples to come together in another way
 The world is becoming cosmopolitan and alike, the likenesses are becoming greater than the differences
 The movement of progress IS ylbrato- ry. Integration and differentiation ever alternate and men are at the beSlnning of a dispensation in which combination is the order of the day,
 Evolution, a great law of nature, can- not be set aside even by profess onal | hilanthropists The nations which are strong and best fitted to survive will di-
  ca. and the rough-and- ready treatment to which Puritan subjected atorigines, and the comOaratsVe results of posses son of the land by the one rather han the other, estops Puritanic posterity from a too decided stand against pro- gress, even when formulated in terms of force.
 The formation of the German empire, the perpetual integrations of Cheat Britain, the incipient dividing up of China the absorption of Porto Rico and the Philippines, the recent attempt of the Central American states to form a fe7eyation, are all symptomatlc of something deeper in the political arena.
 The intermarr age emigration, the advance of the arts, enlightenment, p. ogre-s, evolution, integration, are working out an underlieing political constitution for the world as who,c, called the solidarity of the nations, which ent rely ignores national hounda- ry lines, and which more and more calls for official recognition. formulation and embodiment.
 A point of progress attained and held long enough for intrenchment, then leads to movement forward or back ward If advance be refused, the re- trogression may be impassive or it may be dynamic.
 For long time theology thrashed the same straw until the most practical subject of the pulpit became, Why are our churches so slimly attended," The new theology comes now to the rescue with signs of life and progress so that the science is becoming interesting. The long period in which Russ sian des- potlsm was tempered by assassination was period in which Russian govern- ment undertook to stand still, to for ever renew the existing order of things Movement, forward or backward, to- ward internal civil liberty or external war, was the only hope.
 The general political condition of the civilized world marks a point of ad- vance long since attained to and be- come stale. An occasional war and constant rumors of war, affording on'y temporary relief to a chronic stress, do but indicate the continuance of the | long since attained condition. Men are demanding change, move ment, someth 'ng radically rev, to t ke up their attention, excite their interest | and relieve the tension of ennui and stagratlon. Progress which never de- | mands an advance until the conditions are established, commands one step ahead.
 If those holding the key to the situa- | tion are small calibred and not compe- tent to take the step, if they dare not, | CT, if content with the loaves and fish, ! es, they will not; then the least that could happen would be a dwindling in | which political temples would be, if they are not. denuded of statesmen and | occupied by rettyfogg sra, time-servers, wire-pulers and log-rellers, while the most practical political sermons would l treat of the why and wherefore" of good men not in politics.
 | If the world takes not the step for which it's integration has prepared and that progress demands, then the t1e- 1 mendous energies Of civilization are not | liable to permit the oncoming of retro- gression in passive form; more likely | the oft repeated cry of Wolf! wolf!' will come true and all Europe be at each others threats from very imbscili- l ty of threshng old straw.
 | If the conf1agration results not direct | ly from ennui. nervousness and lack of some real interest on which gods and men may feed then the pretext for re- | lievirg the tension may be some ques- tion incident to the dividing up of Asia and Africa. in which case histor ans | will declare that some Fashoda brought about the ruin. The real cause, never | theless, will be the refusal of human ty
 10 do for posterity what the past has | placed to hand; and, found wanting,
 the men of this day will have proved fit only for slaughter.
 l When the slave states attempted to
 extend their peculiar institution into Kansas they encountered the antago-
 nistic ideas of the free states, and the issue then formed waa voiced by MT. Lincoln when he said: We cannot be
 part free and part slave. but must be-
 come all free or all slave" The civil
 war was fought to determine which.
 Napoleon, in the northeast beheld un- | ccnquerable Russia; in the northwest
 uncohquerable Great Britain and re- | ccgnizing the antagcnistic principlss of government involved, declared, All l Europe will become Cossack or repub- 'lic,''
 | Cuba recently D came an internation- | al Kansas, in which "Cossack" and | Republic got into close quarters; the issue could not be ignored and had. to I -1A