The Newtown bee., 1899-07-14

and inexorably as fate traversed the con- tinent, leaving in their wake land clear ed for cultivation, stretching from sea to sea and smiling in peace and plenty :; a land gridironed with railroads and tel egraphs and dotted with thousands of thriving towns and cities. With their stout hearts and strong arms they have transformed the wilderness into market garden to feed the world. They have made the passage of the eternal noun tains holiday Journey, in fine they have created an empire of 70 GOO, 900 of people so grand, so strong, and still ex- banding, an empire 80 awe inspiring in it's majesty and strength, that the word imperialism can be used as @ hoodoO to frighten the faint-hearted.
 From a critical review of our history and judging the future by the past who would be so bold as to prophecy when and where this great tide of emigration shall be arrested. Our neighbor across the Rio Grande is educating her rising generation to have 8 firm faith in the blessings of civil and religious freedom. This may be her winning card to capture our votes when she comes askiDg to be admitted into our family of states. Our sister across the St Lawrence is little petulant under the sheltering wing of the Mother Country; but there are portents in the air that the Mother Country is even now looking fondly to her once re- bellious son for solace and protection in her old age It would be no pipe dream to imagine that children now living will see the day when the big ditch will be dug across the neck of the continent where the mingled waters of two oceans will gleam under a tropical sun like a .sk, A1 w~~fa koI~ called the "Necklace of the United States of all North America" Looking towards the West we shall note that an advance wave of emigration is already tapping on the Asiatic shore. When the full tide shall arrive, there is nothing iE the soil, the climate or the people that would prove formidable barrier to ar rest it's progress. It may not be in your time, but 1t is not so very uncertain that the time will come when the fairest lands of far Cathay will be dotted with the church spires and Echoolhouges of ar American civilization.
 Shrewd observers have predicted that the coming century will witness an ac- celerated motion in the progress of the human race. Within that time it is more than probable that the last battle will be fought between fanaticism and supersti
 
 civilization on the other. When the con filct is ended there will be certain high ly honored flag among the foremost flags that were in triumph there the flag Uf freedom, the emblem of justice tenn pered with mercy, of enlightened reason of & higher civilization; the red, white and blue A. 2 embls zoned with hundred stars; the fisg that never met defeat the world renowned imperial banner of the United States of North America To sum up this Aggression: when vt consider the considerable expansion we have endured since the Pilgrim Fathers went clamming at low tide, and when we look on the map and see how small 6 dot our new possessions make on the face of the earth, we are forced to the con- clusion that we shall be able to stand the strain of go slight an expansion and not to try to make kick against "manifesi destiny"
 The Sun and Moon and Stars move to th'
 West,
 The "star ef Empire' moves with all the rest
 Pardon this Aggression which seems more appropriate for Fourth of July oration. When we look around upoI this assembly we find here represented all the Seven Ages of Man, from robust manhood and hale old age to the infant in its mothers arms. Every candid and thoughtful mind yields due reverence and respect to the mother and her child. They are fiue example of conflding in- nocenee and of pure devotion. As such they have been choice theme for paint CTS and poets in every age. By all means let us cherish and protect the little ones. They are the hope of earth the hamburger of Heaven. Without them the earth would be depopulated and soon be changed to desolate wilderness and given over to the dominion of the forests and wild beasts. We beeeech you, fair mothers, by all that Is noble in human endeavor, to take good care Of the ba- bies. If nightly vigils should tax your patience and your strength or & time should come when bitter tears of grief must flow, ever keep firm hold of the Anchor of Hope" aud rest assured that some how, some time there will be com pensation.
 Tho smiles and tears and hopes and tears
 Are cradled with the race,
 And when we scan Creation's plan
 Some things seem out of place.
 Tho toll and pain seem borne in vain
 And earnS st efforts fail,
 The highest skill be baffied still
 And prove Dl DO ANhAs
 Tho' darkest night obscures the light
 Of Hopes resplendent Taly
 The "Mother Love- at last will prove
 A Grown ot Victory.
 These boys and girls who throng these beautiful grounds and who go out and in among us with joyous footsteps, ID 8 few sherE years will be called upon to act a part In the great HDrama of Life.D The forces of steam and electricity have so brought the ends of the earth togeth- CT that labor and skill and all business affairs will soon come in keen competition with the whole inhabited globe. Some of you no doubt will be called upon to all chief placeH among the actors on tue stage: law makers, teachers or leaders smOng the toIlers at the sswhite mans .he survival of tha 6ttest-WIIl cone