The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-26
Divine Blessings ShoWered Upon
the American Peop'e.
OUR COUNTRY AND OTHERS.
Or. Talnags Draws Comparisons
setwsen Then. Our Duty to
Extend These Blessings
20 ths World.


time when all the world will have the
same blessings. His two texts are
Revelation xxi, IS, "0n the south
.bree gates" Psalm cxlyii, He hath
mot dealt so with any nation
Among the greatest needs of our
aouptry is more gratitude to God for
sSe uuparaled prosperity bestowed upon
us. One of ny texts calls Us 20 inter
patiossl comparison, What nation on
al the planet has Of late had such en-
lareement of commercial opportunity as
is now openirg before this patton?
Cnbs and Porto REQ and the Philip
pine ISLANDS brought into close conts:.
With us, and through steamship subsidy
and Nicarsgua canal, which Will sure ly
be afforded by congress, 81 the 7eru5
lies Of South America will be brought
into most active trade with the United
States. "On the south three gates.
While our next door neighbo-s, the
southern republics and DeighboriDg
colonies, imported from Eur"pean coun
tries 5000 miles svay s6I5 coo OOO
worth Of goods i year, oaIy Sl2b,-
600, 900 worth vent from the UnHed
S.ates-sl26, 900 900 OUT of $675, 600.
600, only one-6fth Of the trade ours,
European nations taking the four
fingers and leaving Us the poor thumb
Now al this is to be changed. There
is ncehing but comparatively ferry be
sEeen the islands which have recently
come under our protection, sDd oaly a
ferry between US and Bolivia, Peru,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Eenezaels, S>lva
dor, Nicarsgua, Colon5ia, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, BAIL, while there are raging
seas and long voyage between them sud
Europe. By the mandate OF the Uniiea
States al that will be changed through
new facilities Of transportation. The
Eispano American congress jost closed
at Madrid will fail in It's attempt to
divert all the trade Of South America
from Us to Europe. What encouraging
symptoms that our trade vito Cuba aud
Porto Rico has been ouadrupledl But
that is only prophecy. On the south
three gates'-yes, hundred gates!
In anticipation Ct what is sure to
come, nail on the front door Of this
nation an advertisements:
Wanted. hundred thousand
men to build rsilrosds through South
America and the islands Of the sea
under our protection.
Wanted.-A thousand telegraph oper
ators.
Wsnted.-One hundred million dol
lars worth of dry goods from the great
cities Of the United States.
Wsnted.-All the clocks you car
make st New Haven and 81 the brains
you can spare from Boston and all the
bells you can mold at Troy and all the
McCormic reapers you csn fashion al
Chicsgo and all the hams you can turn
out at Cincinnati and ali the railroad
iron you can send from Pittsbury and
ell the statesmen that you can spare
from Washington.
Wanted.-Riyht away, wanted By
new and swifter steamers, wanted by
railtrsin, lawyers to plead our causes.
Wsnted.-Doctors to cure orr ok
Wsnted.-Ministers to evalgelize
cut population.
Wanted. 6.-Professor to establish our
universities.
"On the south three gates" yes, S
thousand gates. South America and al
the islands Of the ses approximate are
righ,fully our commercial domain, and
the eor gress of the United States will
see to it that We get what belongs to US,
And then tides Of trsvel viii be some
what diverted from Earope to our is
lands at the south and to the laud Of
the Aztecs. Much Of the $l25 000,
900 yearly expended by Americans In
Europe will be expended IL southern
exploration, in looking at some of the
runs Of the II cities which Stephens
found only little way spart and in
walking through the great doorvsys snc
over the miracles Of mosaic aud along
By the monumental glorles of aDotheI
civilization, and ancient America vii:
with cold lips Of stone kiss the warm
lips Of modern An@rica, anu 10 have
seen the Andes and P.pe catepetl Will
be deemed as upor,anl a. 10 have seen
the Alpine aid Balkan ranges, and
there will be fewer people spoiled By
foreign travel, anc IN our uiost less Ct
the poor and Dausear'ps imitation o.
the French shrug AID the losensions
kesltancy of brsipless foreign sSeli
The fast is that maDy are made vain oJ
European travel, and, though sensible
when they embarked, they retusn with
3 collar and cravat and shoe and
coat and pronunciation and con-
tempt for American institutions and
bend Of the elbow that make one be
heve in exclusion backward from man
to ape. Of the many thousands who
now cross the sea sanua!ly thousands
will, oa pleasure and business, visi:
southern lands, scd SO toarists ali
merchants and scientists and capitalists
will all help IN This nsii2nal develop
ment. ''Oa the s,uth three gates, y
And what other nation has sueh open
ings for commercial Enlargement a.
ours.
Again, in this international compar
ison notice the happy ooncition OF our
country as compared with most coun
tziea: Russia uader the sha6ow Of the
areadful Illness Of her great and good
enseror, Vno now, more than any man
IN all the world represents peace OF
earth, good will to mel" and Bhose EN-
press, near the most solemn hour that
ever comes to q woman soul, is anxious
for him TO whom she has given Ter hand
and heart, not for po:;tica! reasons, out
though old fashioned love such "a bless
es oUr humble dwellings; India under
the sgonies Of famine which, though
somewhat lifted, has filed hundreds Of
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