Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
CIVILIZATIONS u

Congressman James E. Watson of In
diana takes a broad-minded view of
American duty and responsibility among
the nations of the earth. He appeals to
young men to lift up and carry the bur-
dens Of advancing civilization which the
national democracy would shirk. He
calls upon all men who believe in pro-
gress and oppose the sleepy and, cow
ardly policy advocated by Bryan and his
supporters, to ask them to step aside and
if they will not to help push them aside
by an expression of. enlightened opinion
at the polls. He has no faith in those
~weaklings who a to give up the Phil
ippines and surrender Hawaii and Por-
to Rico to some more aggressive nation.
He ridicules the idea that the American
government can not establish law and
order in our insular possessions. Their
population, he says, may be educated
to the enjoyment of liberty and prosper
ity. In a recent letter on the subject of
American destiny he says:
who, then, are young men? They are
those who eagerly face the future; who
heroicaly confront new conditions and
meet new problems; who have an
Astounding faith in the future of human
ity; those who are not content to live in
the past, but whose minds and hearts
are open to new ideas and new convic-
lions. All such are young, regardless of
years. What are the main points of dis
function between the debility of age and
the virility of youth? Courage, self-re-
Lance and u~nwavering faith in destiny,
or in the processes of evolution, or, bet
ter yet, in God.
Men constantly limit themselves by
their thoughts. The man who, in the
presence of any task, folds his arms and
lazily asserts Il can't" renders himself
helpless by that thought. All the inven-
tons of history, which have trans
formed nations and made possible the
glory of our age, first existed In the mine
before they We're outwardly expressed ir
the material. Therefore, large .~eas art
necessary-grand conceptions of duty
and destiny and glory. A nation limits
itself by it's ideals, and so, If we would
accomplish much, we must maintain
lofty conceptions of our possibilities an
powers. I have no patience with thu
American who is without faith in hi!
country, in it's capabilities, in its poten
tialities, in its destiny, n CONSTANT,
doubts is ability to take lis proper plac
among the nations of the earth. I hav,
no patience with that man who, like tn,
FREELY, carries his headlight on behind
and must, therefore, back into the futur
in order to see his way. This is pessim
ism run mad-pessimism that stagnate
and will ultimately destroy. Thes
mighty tasks are before us: we nus
perform them, n we IAN. The youni
men of the republic say we can and viii
and that statement clears the way o
half of it's rubbish"
Does tina not sound more like a
American utterance than do the sickl
misgivings of the democratic press?
1t any wonder that the people of Mon
tana are stopping their subscriptions t
the BRYAN organs that are filled wit
complaints and evil predictions and trea
sonable warnings and that they are sur
porting those newspapers which are i
line and in sympathy with the spirit {
American progress at home and abroad
There are scattered throughout tn
state 1900 of It's gallant sons who sine
their return from the war have been d.