Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-12-02

printing press. Do you not feel the
ground shake with the machinery OF
the New York. Brooklyn. Boston. Phil
adelphia. Washington and western
dailles? Some of us remember when
the hand Ink roller was run over the
cylinder. and by great haste 800 copies
of the village newspaper were Issued
in one day and no lives lost. But In
vention has crowded invention and
wheel jostled wheel, stereotyping,
electrotyping. taking their places. Ben
jamIn Franklin's press giving way to
the Lord Stanhope press. and the
Washington press and the Victory
press and the Hoe perfecting press
have been set up. Together with the
newspapers comes the publication Of
innumerable books Of history, OF
poetry, Of romance. Of art. of travel. OF
biography. of religion. dictionaries. en-
cyclopedias and Bibles. Some Of these
presses send forth the most accused
stuff, but the good predominates. Turn
on with wider sweep and greater yeloc-
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
cd I'D to It's present prosperity.
And now gather on an imaginary
platform, as literally did when !
preached In Brooklyn. specimens OF
our American products.
BountafuI Hnrvcsts.
Here Is corn from the west. fore
taste of the great harvest that Is 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 sheayes, sheaf Of north
ern wheat and sheaf Of southern rice,
bound together. May the band never
break! Here Is cotton. the wealthest
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 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 1t 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
sos, 900 tons of II, the coal representing
100000 square miles Of 1t, the iron
Urying out the coal, the coal smelling
the Iron. This is silver. silver from
Colorado aud Nevada, those places
able yer to yield silver napkin rings
and silver knives and silver casters
and silver pIntters for all our people
Here Is mica from the quarries of New
Hampshire. how beautiful it looks IL
the sunlight! Here ia copper from
Lake Superior. SO heavy l dare not lift
1t. Ease Is gold from Virginia and
Georgia.
I look around me on this imaginary
platform, and it seems as IL the waves
o4 agricultural. neurological, pomo
logical wealth dash 10 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 f1no
she is the north. and another comes In
and her brow is garlanded with rice
and blossoms Of magnolia. and fnc
she Ia the sosth, and another comes in
| and find she is garlanded with sea
weed and blossoms of spray. and find
she Is the east. and anothes comes IN
and 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 off theil
garlands, and they twist them together
into something that looks like 9
wreath, but it is wheel, the whee
of national prosperity, and I say IL
an outburst Of Thanksgiving joy fol
what God has done for the north ane
the south and the east and the west
20 wheel"
At different times in Europe they
have tried to get congress of kings
at Berlin or at Paris or at st. Peters
burg, but It has always been failure
Only few kings have come. But OF
this imaginary platform that have
built we have convention Of all thu
kIngs-King Corn. King Cotton. kim
Rice. King Wheat. King Oats. King
Iron. King Coal. King Silver, KIM
Gold-and they all bow before the KIM
Of kings. to whom be all the glory O
this years wonderful production!