The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05

the priceless heritage of the state they
| loved so well. High upon the scroll OF
| honor and fame we will inscribe thei!
names in letters of imperishable light
| While to their memory it will become
| our loving duty to erect in some suit
able spot monument that shall fifty
commemorate their virtues.
Prepare Welcome.
And as for the living, for those who
return to us, we will prepare welcome
that shall make them forget the hard
ships and dangers and sufferinss
through which they have passed; a
welcome as spontaneous, as generous,
as magnificent and unselhsh as their
! own splendid courage and patriotism
a welcome that shall convey to them in
some small degree at least, the senti-
ments of pride and gratitude, of APP
| probation and admiration in which we
hold them.
But it is not alone in the glory and
prestige of our naval and military
| achievements and in the spread of re-
| publican forms of government that We
have cause to rejoice. There is ma
terial view which, while secondary,
| perhaps. in Importance, is neVerthe-
less too vast to be overlooked.
Beyond the Pacific shores lies the
great Orient. 1t contains more than
one-half of the population of the world
and is Just now beginning to feel the
magic touch of modern civilization.
The western shore of the United States
forms the gateway to this as yet UNI
exploited and undeveloped field of
commerce. We enjoy natural advan-
tages which place in our hands the key
to the situation. and the question is,
shall we avail ourselves of the great
opportunity or shall we be diverted
by the unfounded fears and apprehen-
sions of honest but timid statesmen,
who imagine they see in the magnih-
cent destiny opening before us a cause
of alarm and fear for the safety of the
republic.
We have already annexed the Sand
witch islands and secured a resting
place for our ships and trade in the
mid Pacific ocean. Beyond them the
stars and stripes are floating over the
beautiful city of Manila, a city and
harbor which. under the stimulus of
American enterprise and American
rule, is destined in the near future to
become a rival of the great ports Of
Hong Kong Shanghai and Yokohama
The Atlantic's Rival.
In a few years the great Pacific
ocean will rival the Atlantic in the
number of its ships and in the volume
and value of its commerce, and as the
ships and trade and commerce of the
Pacific ocean multiply, so will the en-
tire Pacific coast grow and expand in
wealth and population. and we here in
Montana, in common with the rest of
the Pacific slope, will be among the
first to feel the beneficent impulse of
these new and enlarged conditions.
What the Atlantic ocean. with its
teeming commerce, has done in build
ing up and developing the East, the
greater Pacific ocean is surely destin-
ed in the future to do for the West
The men who founded this nation I'd
framed its constitution builded better
than they knew. Their vision could
not foresee the enormous stliles the
young republic was to make. 1t was
beyond their widest dreams that the
13 colonies along the Atlantic coast
We're destined to extend from Porte
Rico on the south to Boring straits and
across the great American desert and
over the Rocky mountains and to this
islands of the Pacific ocean. Yet not
withstanding this. the constitution
which they framed has met every
| emergency. 1t has successfully with.
| stood every test, including the awful
| shock and strain of great civil war
| Out of the heat and contention of de
| bate, out of the strife of pirtisarsh p
| out of the fierce clash of arms, iron