The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-26

can liberty points to future pregnant
with prodglous good to all mankind; to
| fresh fields for the extension of Ameri-
can trade and commencement openings
| for the investment of American capital;
wider scope for the active energies OF
American young men--to more frequent
gimpses of the American flag to voyagers
| over tho oceans merchant shipping mul-
| tiplied manifold in the harDors of the
world; with navy large enough and
| strong enough to enforce our just de-
mands and the rights of American citi-
| Sens as promptly and as efficiently as
| Dewey enforced tho views of the govern
| ment in Manila Bay; an army large
| enough to serve the reasonable require
| ments OF seventy millions OF people, with
| out putting the administration TO the risk
| OF quick and terrible disaster In case or
| sudden war; the maintenance of our for
| cign diplomatic service upon a footing
| commensurate with our power and i'm
portonce, so that It will no longer be
necessary to seek for ambassadors and
ministers among those only who are
| blessed with private income sufficient to
| maintain proper establishment abroad
without regard to the salary attached to
the office. The country demands now
branch of craftsmanship new to Amer-
| cans-the proper method and measures
| for the control and government of colon
| ial dependencies. and the adjustment of
| colonial interests and affairs TO the inter-
| est of the home governments field
wherein partisan politics should not en3-
| lily be allowed to enter, but where broad
| and enlightened state policy may have
| fun scope to work out plans whereby all
| the blessings of essential liberty and
| twentieth century civiliza ton may be as
| sured to the peoples that are to be un-
| der our paternal care, ana reciprocal ben
1 pfitS hp obtained
| trymen.
These new duties and new relations
| Will add fresh dignity to American citi-
| zenship; will raise the sense of offici1l
| and political obligotion as they increase
| responsibility. TEe" will take the people
| out of the treadnill rounds of domestic
| politics-where issues are too often arti-
| fetal and transient. New thoughts, new
questions new fields, fresh hopes. broad
er views. wider infiuence-ai these will
| come, as well as troubles and disappoint-
| ments. and temporary failures and dis
| coura gements, which will but serve to
| call forth renewed energy and effort un-
| til they are overcome. Who can Get
| bounds to the expansive spirit of Amer
| lean enterprise? Only forty years ago an
American periodical declared that the
| banks of the Missouri river were the
| shores of the termination of a vast ocein
| desert over 1000 miles in breadth which
| it was proposed to traverse, if at all, with
| caravans OF camels. and whicn inter-
posed IA final barrier to the establishment
| of large communities, agricultural or
| commercial That desert now blossoms
like the rose, and parallel lines of iron
| rails bear the produce of immcasurGOle
acres of fertile lands east and west to
the markets of the world. The ambitious
| energy of American enterprise can take
its choice today of delving for gold in
the frozen wastes within the Arctic circle
or of tlling the generous soil of islands
washed by tropic seas, where in the neat
of the day they rest in the shade of the
palm trees all under the protecting guar
antee of our flag.
| This has been year unequaled for pro-
| gress and accomplishment. The hand of
man has not fashioned nor his eye fore
seen the work that has been wrought.
| Call it fate, the progress of events, Prov
| idence, God, what you WILT has been
a leading upward and on, the drawing
forward by irresistible impulses of this
| people to a place at the front of the
world. To Captain Gridley at his post
on the deck of the flagship Olympia on
that memorable May morning came the
quiet word of command as Dewey said,
| "You may begin firirg, Gridlcy." The
guns that responded sent forth death and
| destruction, but in the light of their
| flashes was revealed a new hope and
better life for millions for whom there
tofore the sun of liberty and civilization
had never shone except through the
murky clouds of semi -barbarsm and su-
perstition. And so this nation enters upon
a new era Do not doubt but that she
will be equal to the responsibility. | be-
lieve in the capacity of Americans TO gov
ern; to govern themselves and 10 govern
others. l set up no dogma of iniallibil-
ity, but expecting mistakes and delay
and disappointment. | believe that the
| boundless capacity and the splendid cour-
age of America, with her high sense OF
| justice. her appre eCiaton OF the rights of
| man, will in the new duties placed upon
| us work out marvellous good for the pco-
pies that have cCme under our guardian
ship, 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.
and the consummate tact and grace of
our Republican president refused to make
, any distinction between Federal and Con-
, federate, but put Lee and Wheeler side
by side with Kent and Shafter, "Ianks"
and "Johnnies" all keeping step together
, to the music of the Union. Stout old
, John Adams, standing in the royal pres
. ence, the first accredited minister of the
new republic to the mother country,
speaking like the noble gentleman and
/, wise statesman that he was, said to King
, George: II shall be the happiest OF men
, If l can be instrumental in restoring
, an entire esteem, confidence. and afIec-
; | tion, or, In better words, the old good
= humor between people who have the same
: language, a similar religion, and kindred
blood" 1t has been the happy result OF
, | this war to have brought back, forever
; | we trust, that entire esteem, confidence
and affection, the old good humor, be-
tween the people of the North and the
| South, as in the days when Adams and
, Hamilton and Jay labored and conferred
in fraternal harmony with Patrick Henry
and Thomas Jefferson and the Pinckneys
, about our country's interests.