Evening star., 1898-05-30

every field of thought: by greater progress
in the realms of science. literature and
art; by self-sacrifcing deeds of mercy and
humanity; by still more marvellous tri-
umphs and achievements in the boundless
but fruitful blossoming fields of education: ::
something by all the means within our
power to leave the Union, when we die
stronger than when We found it.
In the majestic Mohammedan temples
the builders mixed the indestructibfe fra
GRANGE of the altar of roses with the NOR
tar with which the walls were held to-
getner, and ever since multitudeS of de-
won't worShipers each year the ages
pass have knelt to pray in those temples
and yet find their prayers imbued with the
undying fragrance of that perfume. SO in
this great temple--the American Union
The marvel of the centuries, the pride of
mankind. which our fathers built and we
occupy the blood-red mortar which holds
1t all together is perfumed with the great
virtues and sweet influences of the men
who built and preserved it. Let us never
lose that perfume for if we do that cement
viii crumble and the temple be destroyed.
This Republic Holds the Future.
Truly this republic holds the future. In
its lap lie wOndrous possibilities. With it's
marvellous progress and advancement; its
great masses of wealth, population and
power: its strong government, with liberty
blended with order and attended by a just
law, its free Institutions, free schools and
lhe superior StUerdl lntellStnce OF us ptO-
pie: with no privileged classes. no titled
aristocracy. wide eXDanse of territory,
a fertl,e soil, a genial climate, with Won
Uerful manufacturing and mechanical pro-
buttons. With brilliant genius. immense
energy and prosperous labor: with ali min
erals. all fruits. all cereals; with marvellous
cities and excellent seaports, great lakes,
navigab!e streams and long lines of iron
roads, w1ich. as mighty rivers, pour the
whole vast inland into a great market of
exchange for what trade has gathered
from every quarter of the globe; with
smiling plenty scattering contentment
everywhere from her flowing horn.
l believe the hour has struck on the
clock of ages (whose huge pendulum
swings to and fro over the arch of CEN
turies), when this wonderful land shall
take on newer and higher types of nation
ality.
New fields are fast opening up for Amer
lean adventure. Alaska, with its teeming
wealth, is only awaiting the coming of
American enterprise. genius and energy to
unlock her treasures and pour them into
the pockets of American thrift and cour-
age.
The Hawaiian Islands. too, which could
furnish homes for a million of our people
and a market for untold millions of our
products, affording a place of refuge for
our vessels, are daily knocking at our doors
for admission into our family of states
and the protection of our flag. Let us take
them in and bid them welcome
linen, again, IN tne Tar east tneTe are
countless millions of people to be clothed
and fed, who have plenty of wealth with
which to pay for it; who would furnish a
good market for the products Of our mills
and shops. factories and farms, whenever
we can reduce the rates of transportation
and enter into competition with other coun-
tries. This can do by bringing about
the early construction and operation of the
Nicaragua canal. And this, together with
q Pacific cable (Which we should construct
and controD, would give US easy COM
munication with the Pacific ocean-des-
tined. at distant day, to float the great
er part of the worlds commerce. Then,
with proper attention on the part of our
government to the encouragement of the
construction of merchant ships, we would
soon become one OF the greatest CONNER
cial nations and be the maritime master or
the commerce and trade of the Pacific 1t
would not be long until the sails of Amer
lean commerce would whiten every sea and
our flag be found in all the harbors of the
world.
Our standing army should also be in
creased; not too much. however, for our
excellent volunteer soldiery can always be
relied upon; but we should have trained
force always ready for duty, suf1ciently
large to protect our frontiers until the vol
unteer army could get ready for action.
We should, also. strengthen our coast de-
fenses in order that we may be we'll pre-
pared for foreign invasion.
Then, too, we should build one of the nm
est navies that ride the seas, in order that
we may hold our own with any nation. IL
should make no difference what the COST
would be, our nation is rich and can easily
afford it.
We love peace, but we should realize that
eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and
that to always have peace is to always
be prepared for war.
All this is honor, alteration and glory TO
the men who died that the Union might
live.
Sectional Lines Have Disappeared.
We are glad, today, that sectional lines
have entirely disappeared in this country.
The era Of perfect reconciliation has dawn
ed at last AS result, our nation will
have greater strength at home, and greater
influence abroad The men who fought each
other in that fierce arbitration of the sword
are now friends; their feelings, convictions,
interests are in such harmony on questions
of national import that they realize they
are all Americans, for there Is thread
which bridges over that dark and troubled
wave of civil war and connects them by a
living nerve with the freemen of the revo-
luton. Banishing remembrance of the an
ger of the past and uniting their spirit ana
pride to the traditions of the nation, they
have pledged themselves to Its future
power and glory. In the face Of foreign in
Suits prejudice and hate can no longer en-
dure among the people of the north and
south than the snow can last when kissed
by the beams of the life-giving sun.
And why should it not be so? For the
stars look down through palmetto and mag
nolia trees upon graves wherein sleep the
boys who marched and fought in tattered
gray and ragged blue. sleeping, now. side
by side Covered in autumn by the same
withered leaves, wreathed in winter by the
same winding sheets of snow, and in this
season of the year, when the vesture OF
nature is frightened into its loveliest hue,
are wrapped in the same soft mantle of
green, decked with the same wild flowers,
blooming over each with impartial love,
while all the feathered Songsters sing their
sweetest carols to the memory of both.
Only the other day-a third of a century
since the eagle of victory nestled with the
dove of peace the flag of the Union, at
Appomattox-another call for volunteers
echoed throughout our land. Then the sur
viving soldiers of the north and south
they who once as strong, rugged young
men bitterly opposed each other on many
a hard fought battlefield now old and
feeble, some on crutches, some with empty
| sleeves, but all with heads white with the
| SHOWS of MANY winters-brought out their
| old faded uniforms from their hiding places.
| and they looked at them they seemed
| to live again the dark days of the
| past. But. now. it is useless to answer the
| call for volunteers, for they cannot pass
muster and their country will not accept
| them in their old age. With sad hearts