Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-28

ity. o wheel-wheel Of light. wheel of
civilization, wheel of Christianity.
wheel of divine momentum!
On those four wheels-that Of the
sewing machine, that of the reaper.
that of the railroad locomotive, that Of
the printing press-the world has NOV
ed up to its present prosperity.
And now gather on an imaginary
platform, as I literally did when /
preached in Brooklyn, specimens of
our American products.
Bountiful Harvests.
Here is corn from the west q fore
taste Of the great harvest that 10 to
come down to our seaboard, enough for
ourselves and for foreign shipment.
Here is rice from the south, never a
more beautiful product grown on the
planet. mingling the gold and green.
Here are two sheaves, sheaf of north
ern wheat and sheaf of southern rice,
bound together. May the band never
break! Here is cotton, the wealthiest
product of America. Here is sugar
cane, enough to sweeten the beverages
Of an empire. Who would think that
out Of such humble stalk there would
come such a luscious product? Here
are palmetto trees that have in their
pulses the warmth of southern climes.
Here is the cactus Of the south, so
beautiful and so tempting it must so
armed. Here are the products Of
American mines. This Is iron, this is
coal, the iron representing vast yield.
our country sending forth one year
100000 tons Of it, the coal representing
100000 square miles Of it, the iron
prying out the coal, the coal smelling
the iron. This is silver. silver from
Colorado and Nevada, those places
able yet to yield silver napkin rings
and silver knives and silver casters
and silver platters for all our people.
Here is mica from the quarries Of New
Hampshire. How beautiful it looks in
the sunlight. Here is copper from
Lake Superior. so heavy I dare not lift
it. Here is gold from Virginia and
Georgia.
look around me on this imaginary
platform, and it seems as if the waves
OK agricultural, meteorological, pomo-
logical wealth dash to the platform,
and there are four beautiful beings
that walk in, and they are all gar
landed, and one is garlanded with
wheat and blossoms of snow. and find
she is the north, and another comes in,
and her brow is garlanded with rice
and blossoms Of magnolia. and l find
she is the south, and another comes in,
and find she is garlanded with sea-
weed and blossoms of spray, and find
she is the east, and another comes in,
and I find she is garlanded with silk
Of corn and radiant with California
gold, and / find she is the west, and,
coming face to face, they take OF their
garlands. and they twist them together
into something that looks like q
wreath, but it is a wheel, the wheel
Of national prosperity, and say in
an outburst of Thanksgiving joy for
what God has done for the north and
the south and the east and the west,
20 wheelw
At different times In Europe they
nave tried to get congress Of kings
ct Berlin or at Paris or at st. Peters
burg, but it has always been a failure.
Only few kings have come. But on
this imaginary platform that I have
built we have convention of all the
kings-King Corn. King Cotton, King
Rice, King Wheat. King Oats, King
Iron, King Coal, King Silver. King
Gold-and they all bow before the King
Of kings, to whom be all the glory Of
this years wonderful production!