The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20
EXPANSION.
Salt Lake Tribune.

Salt Lake tribune.
In Gilpin's North American Mission the
writer pictured the swift-coming events
which the United States was to take part
in. Here is a sample:
w are about to supply by direct export
the food and precious and base metals to
$780, 200 of ~neighboring Asiatics! To ia
pan. to China, to India, 10 the gorgeous
islands of Borneo. Sumatra, Java. The
Philippines, the Celebes. To the archipela-
goes of the Sooloo sea and Polynesia. These
are larger in aggregate area and more
populous, and are nearer TO us"
Gilpin proceeded to say that from 1910 to
1916 he alone, and in extreme youth, sought
and chalked out the immense solitudes fill
ing the space from Missouri to China, 1.-THE
lines of this dazzling empire. of which we
now hold the oracular crown-to have
stood by it's cradle-to be the witness of its
miraculous growth"
On the I'd of March. 1876. Gilpin made a
report to the United States Senate, In
which was the following:
Two centuries have rolled over our race
upon this continent. From nothing We
have become 20, 000,O 600. From nothing We
are grown to be. in agriculture. in COM
merce. in civilization, and in natural
StTtISln TIE UTSt dLlOUS IdtlOuS SAiStlh6
or in history. So much is our destiny-so
far. up TO this time-transacted, accom-
plished, certain. and not to be disputed.
From this threshold we read the future.
THE untransacted destiny of the Ameri-
can people is to subdue the continent: to
rush over this vast field to the Pacific
ocean; to animate the man hundred
millions of its people, and to cheer them
upward; to set the principle of self-gov-
ernment at work; to agitate these hercu-
lean masses; to establish a new order In
human affairs; to set free the ~enslaved;
TO regenerate s~uperannuated nations; 10
change darkness into light: to stir UP the
sleep OF q hundred centuries; to teach old
nations a new civilization; to conform the
destiny of the human race; to carry the
career of mankind to its eliminating point;
to cause stagnant people to be reborn; to
perfect science; to emblazon history with
the conquest of peace; to shed a new and
respondent glory upon mankind; to unite
the world in one social family; TO dissolve
the spell of tyranny and exalt charity; to
absolve the curse that weighs down hui
nianity, and to shed blessings round the
world.
LET us tread fast and joyfully the open
trail before US! Let every American heart
open wide for patriotism to glow I'M
dimmed, and confide with religious faith
in the sublime and prodigious destiny of
his well-loved country
That was ~fifty-four years ago, when all
the space between the Missouri and the Pa
ciic was a wilderness. Our nation num-
bered then 90 00, 900 people. Now five lines
of railroads compass that region that was
a waste. and the whole infinite distance is
Illuminated by schoolhouses and sane
titled by the songs of school chill
dren. The population has Increased
to 75.00O,00 souls. The Orient has
been drawn up to within fifteen days sail
from our west coast by the modern steam
ship. and every morning the telegraph tells
us what happened on the Oriental coast the
previous day. What would a man like
Gilpin have to say in response to the anti
expansion dyspeptics that now fill the at
mosphere of our country with lamenta-
tons?