The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-18


and finally adopted, as modern con-
venience, the telegraph, telephone, cleo
tric light, photophone- and so we
might go on naming others. until there
would be a multitude, all tending to
make work easier and life more comfor-
table and enjoyable. Still invention
goes on. Instead OF the Oriental habit
of accepting things as they are, and
living as his father did, every American
and every European today seems to
ask himself whether he can not improve
upon old methods and old appliances.
This great desire for provements
has not only made natural success
which makes the conditions of physical
life better, but we have also made
improvements morally and intellectually,
and I'VE are fast approaching the time,
when we shall prove by custom, that all
men are created equal. Serfdom in
Russia, Slavery in the United States
and British possessions have been com
pletely abolished.
In all the thousands of years of re-
corded history, labor scarcely made the
advance it has achieved in the present
century, not only in the number of hours
of work, but in social position and polit-
ical power the labors of today is on a
plane immeasurably above that occupied
by the masses in the past.
Great has been the progress of the
world in recent years and the future
will witness grander triumphs. The
more perfect and rapid the interchange
of thought and sympathy between the
nations of the world, the greater will
be the advance.
The outlook for the future is bright
indeed. The Twentieth century will be
an age of greater progress than the
world has ever known. What wonder
full inventions, what discoveries, what
projections in art, and literature, what
startling Investigations in the physical
forces will mark the next hundred
years.
The outlook is bright and beautiful
yet there are clouds to partly dim the
splendors of the rising sun.
A few years ago when the North and
the South were torn asunder, ,men-both
the blue and the gray-went forth tc
battle and shed their life's blood for Goo
and home, and native land. They died
for what they thought was right
Either side met foe sbrave, as stern,
as patriotic as themselves. Their hon
or is greater for so doing. There was
true patriotism! How is it today?
In studying the list of the names o
the recruited soldiers, we are struck by
the large percentage of foreign names
Where are the Americans? Are they less
patriotic than our adopted citizens? Car
they so soon forget the Maine? Is
patriotism among the American people
becoming nothing more than noisy
demonstrations of the mobs-the blat
ant harangue of political demagogues?
The world is today passing through {
great struggle-perhaps greater than We
now think. Outside of Great Britain
there is no Europe today-what was once
Europe is now nothing but a hot bed Of
anarchy and dissensions, France is on the
verge of revolution, Austria and Hun
gary about to separate Russia the scene
of the treachery and murder of the
Nihilists Great Britain stands alone
among the powers of Europe today-nt
friendly eye is turned towards her or to
wards the English speaking people. We
are rapidly nearing the time when there
is to be struggle between the English
speaking people and the rest of the civ
ilized world. Will not the Twentieth
century mark this struggle?
A few months ago we were at peace
Today we are involved in bitter struggle
with that murderous monster, that re-
lentless starver of the weak and helpless
that national assassin of all the Joy there
is in human life for her colonists, that
butcherer of innocent women and child
ren that inhuman monster of all demons
ever known to the barbarous past-Spain
God speed the day when in penance fol
all the horrible deeds of which she has
been SO proudly guilty in the unfortunate
past she will be wiped off the face of the
earth as nation.
We are proud that the United States
secular government, has taken the leao
while the socalled Christian nations of
this world of policy and fear have stooo
aloof and has said to Spain: "Stay tn.
murderous hand! Your war of starva
ton of the helpless and innocent has
gone far enough!" Let US see her in the
dawn of the Twentieth century go dowr
in humiliation and defeat, punished by
the only real humane nation upon this
globe-our glorious United States.
These are few of the problems which
present themselves to us, as we stanc
waiting the rising sun of the coming age
Reviewing the past We feel that the
world has grown b1.ter than it was il
earlier ages. The lives of millions OF
human beings are richer to-day by
reason Of the thoughts, the inventions, th'
accomplishments. the noble researches
and the deeds of the many men whose
portraits are found and always will be
found in History's picture gallery. Wha
will the future bring forth? To answer