The Globe-republican., 1900-09-20

wall and the Philippines, and have some
interest in Cuba; and I venture to say
that the increased and increasing bust
ness in those distant islands has already
more than absorbed the work of all the
drummers in the country who have lost
their positions through Industrial com
binationS. If that is true, and l believe
it is consider what n chance there is for
ten per cent of our commercial travellers,
or for fifty per cent of them, in time in
foreign lands at home here, helping
their new employers, their old ones,
to meet all the numberless new and in
creasing demands of prosperous and
proud American men, women, sweet
hearts, wives, cousins. aunts and chill
dren, and all the countless millions, who,
as we can be certain, are going to want
our American products more and more
because the counted millions that
know of have begun to take them now
almost faster than supply them
That is expansion
You cannot stop it in million years!
1t has been going on since the world
began. and it will continue to go on,
faster than ever, [ guess, to the end of
time. 1t happens when a people fairly
bursts its manufacturing and commercial
bounds There must be outlet for the
products of our farms and factories. for
the capital and talents of our business
men and hustlers-
Sometimes this expansion of new
strength, which amounts to an explosion
of new strength, must be preceded by a
battleShip. even by part of standing
army. permanent garrison as in
Porto Rico the Philippines. At other
times the battieship and the standing
army, a part of it. just enough hold
our own and make no doubt of it, must
follow.
The missionaries (who typify in a way
the advance of civilization into heather
lands, we call them) are best of all the
daring forerunners of the commerce and
the progress that have to get there too
The human race. especially the Anglo
Saxons, are always wanting more and
better things; they climbing. climbing
climbing. always upon higher plane of
living These things they work for and
fight for. and die for So long as that
restless, world-conQuering sentiment ex-
lists, there will be expansion So long
too. the races of the earth which have
round themselves. and still finding
themselves. unequal the trading and
selling, and fighting, and civilizing capac-
ity of the Anglo-Saxons, must step aside:
they must learn to fight and to trade and
to trade nd to fight, much better; that is
all
try to say these things thoughtfullv.
as a drummer. notorious he is for talk
ing. may sometimes do. This expansion
that I speak of is what we optirnists
mean by destiny: we are not afraid of it
we welcome it. We have done in tho. la st
three years n hundred years of work
which. however. we couldn't have done
if hadn't been prepared, If we hadn't
been that kind of people
There IS not a true American man in
these United States that Is not better off
in his patriotism his pecuniary pros
| poets Tor the tasks OF war md of states
manship that have been undertaken and
discharged in the last three years You
are better off. whoever you are: and am
| better off Even if i had not been nee
! esSary to my employer in the field and
had not been kept on the payroll, then
| there would have been ten times the
freedom of opportunity. which is all any
/ good man want There is freedom of
! opportunity for everybody; but opportu-
nifty won't come looking for US. We must
go running for IT, watching every open
i ing, looking for Improvement, looking for
| the way which our employer must find If
| we do not make his capital and his eff
/ forts pay him a little better In that
/ way our efforts, which are capital,
| will pay better and better
! a DRUMMER.