The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-18

er household needs. These apartments he
leased at low rates to the former denizens
of garrets and cellars. Some one compli-
mented him upon his philanthropy He re-
piled, do not praise me too much. I went
in for philanthropy but I have discov-
cred that philanthropy and Eve per cent.
may be made to go together"
A careful writer has declared: ut may
almost be held that the hope of CONNER
cial gain has done nearly as much for the
cause of truth as even the love Of truth"
1t Is evident that, with the enormous in
creased energy derived through machinery
and invention, the production of a highly
civilized state, in many, If not most, of its
articles of manufacture, will ultimately
exceed the needs, IL not the power to con-
sumo, of it's people. Capital, tending to in
crease through economics in distribution
and exchange, If confined to geographical
limits, will aggravate the tendency toward
local over production. New agencies, like
factories. mills, and railroads win be
created, and these will fiercely strive to
get foothold in a market already over sup
piled Under such congested con
dltions, profits must diminish, wages
fail, and capital go without reward. The
only relief is a widening out of what in
another sense has been called the sphere
of influence. When our factories shall
I TURN OUT Twice OF thrice the quantity OF
things our people can use, the shops
where these are made win have to close
up, orc Their markets will have TO be found
where they may be exchanged for things
that can be used by us. If eight millions
of people in Southern seas, SO rude as not
to use bedsteads or so poor as not to be
able to buy them can by stimulating in
| duence, of civilization be brought to desire
and acquire them, by so much our prob
lem is solved.
1t is the function of commerce
to aid in bringing these things
about; but commerce alone can
not do it, A commerce which exploits
the poverty of the poor soon ends. Good
government, the establishment of peace,
| the dissemination of education, the en-
| couragement of industry, the protection Of
the weak; in a word, the elevation of races
lower in the scale of civilizatio until
they feel new wants and find the ability
to supply them in fair exchange for the
fruits of their own peculiar soil, climate
or racial characteristics, these are the
foundations upon which a lasting. growing
commerce can be established. We see on
all sides the advanced commercial nations
struggling with each other for distant
markets They apprehend by intuition, at
least. half the truth
BY the orderings of fate. or Provi-
| dence little suspected by us, we, Of this
land, have been pushed forward, as it
were, against all our traditions, to face
new responsibilities, new duties, and new
opportunities Shall we restrain ourselves
and remain insular or shall we accept the
challenge that destiny brings US? John
Addison truly said:
Mature seems 10 have taken a particu-
| lar care to dissc inmate her blessing among
the different regions of the world, that
| the nations of the several parts Of the
| Globe might have a kind Of dependence
upon one another, and be united together
! by their common interest"
II. with due humility, we shall try TO
! end our way TO the larger llfc events have
brought 10 as; IL. with an honest regard
| for the duties which the great and strong
owe 10 the weak and helpless. we take up
what may seem q present Improbable
burden. We SHALL ! believe, in inc fullness
| of dime. dnl 0ut that in oar larger roia-
/ lions aud ln our cEiandei commerce 'pHii,
auihrony and per cent may DC made 20
/ 50 l9gether'