The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-30
CHRISTMAS IN NEW AM.
AMERICA

harmony with the associations con-
nected with the day. Yesterday a
paper was placed in the presidents
hands which advances the United
States long step among the great
nations of the world and extends the
benefits of the highest form of clvili-
zation to lands in which it has been
unknown hitherto. This is the treaty
of peace with Spain, by which the
country's power and influence is ex-
tended over portions of the earth
heretofore outside of the scope of our
authority, which increases our in
.huence among the great nations of
the world and places within our con-
troll people who along to this time
hal never felt a guidance which was
potent and benefcent. To our new
possessions, heather as we'll as
Christian, this university hereafter
will have a particular claim to their
grateful remembrance. The COM
pact which has just been received in
this country will TO them be a charter
of liberty. 1t will advance them in
the social and political scale, give
them a connection with the greatest
and most progressive nations in the
world and make life better worth
living.
Thus the social Developments and
tendencies which find their culmlna-
ton and frultage in the instrument
which has just reached Washington
are in unison with the sentiments and
traditions OF the season. 1t is a
triumph of peace and progress. As
often before In the past, war has
brought political quietude and ad-
vancement. Rome's sway over the
barbarous and semi-barbarous peo-
Piles of eighteen or twenty centuries
ago brought peace which the world
of antiquity had not known until
then. England's rule has, through
out large regions of ASIA and Africa,
introduced tranquility where hither-
to there had been the petty but con-
tinuous and demoralizing strife of
tribes and races which had no purpose
except despoilment and destruction.
The United States has established
quietude in the Philippines, which
have been in condition of rebellion
for many decades, and has ended the
uprisIngs which have been under way
in Gu ba, with but short intermis-
siOns, since early in the century. To.
day, for the first Christmas season in
many years, all over the world the
gates of the temple of Janus are shut
To America, therefore, in its old
and in Its new boundaries, this day
will have new claims to popular re-
membrance. It finds the United
States covering a larger place on the
h1 IHdH IL ever u1l6Q UClOTe. IL
sees the country welding a greater
influence among the nations than il
possessed in the past. All over the
world there are talks of alliances in
which the United States is assumed
to be one of the partners. The
country Is, to all the other nations
an object of an interest never aroused
in the past. Every nation is anxiou;
to be on terms of the closest friend
ship with it. The opposition which
was manifested at first toward its ex.
pAnsion in the Pacific has entirely dis
appeared. The jealousies and rival.
RES which are felt by the principa
European nations for each other are
not manifested by any of then
toward the United States. No ma
tion in history, was ever the object Of
a higher regard than is shown every
where for this country at the present
time. Despite the occasional out
bursts of pesslmists here and there il
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