The Yale expositor., 1900-09-28

waii and the Philippines. and have some
interest in Cuba; and | venture To say
that the Increased and increasing bust
ness in those distant islands has already
more than absorbed the work of all the
drummcrs in the country who have lost
their positions through industrial COM
binatiOns. If that is true, and | believe
il is. consider what chance there is for
ten per cent OF our commercial travellers,
or for fifty per cent of them, in time in
foreign lands or at home here. helping
their new employers, or their old ones.
10 meet all the numherlcss new and in.
creasing demands of our prosperous and
proud American men, women. sweet
hearts. wives. cousins. auntS ana chill
dren. and all the countless millions, who.
as we can he certain. are going To want
our American products more and more
because the counted millions that we
know of have begUn to take them now
almost faster than we can supply thcm.
That is expansion.
You cannot stop il in million years,
1t has been going on since the world
began, and it will continue 10 go ON.
faster than ever. | guess 90 the md of
time. 1t happens when q people fairly
bursts its manufacturing aHl commercial
bounds. There must he an cutie. ror the
products Of our farms and factories. for
the capital and talents u or business
men and hustlers.
Sometimes this expansion Of new
strength, which amounts 20 an explosion
of new strength, must he preceded by Il
hattleship, even by part OF 4 standing
army. or 4 permanent garrison. as in
Porto Rico or tho Philippines Al other
times the battleship and the standing
army, OF part Of it. just enough ~ hold
0u: dWn and make no doubt Of il. must
follow.
iur missionaries (who typify in way
tie advance e civilization into heather
lands. as W call them are best OF all tho
daring (orerunners 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 are climbing. climbing.
climbing. always upon a higher plane Of
living. These things they work for, and
fight for, ana die for. So long as that
restless. world-conquering sentiment ex-
lists, there will he expansion. So long.
too, the races of the earth which have
found themselves, and are still finding
themselves. unequal to 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 and to fight, much better; that is
all
! try to say these things thoughtfully.
as n drummer notorious as be is for talk
ing. may sometimes do This expansion
that speak of is what we optimists
mean by destiny; we are not afraid Of II.
we welcome it, We have done i'm the last
three years hundred years Of work
which, however. we couldn't have done.
IL we hadn't been prepared IL we hadn't
been tina Kind OF people.
There is not true American man i'm
these United States that Is not better of.
IN his patriotism or his pecuniary pros
poets. for the tasks of war and of states.
msnship that have been undertaken and
discharged IN the last three years. You
are better of. whoever you are; and am
better Off Even IL / had not been nee.
essary 10 my employer in the field and
had not been kept on the payroll. then
there would have been ten times the
freedom % opportunity, which is all any
good man can want. There is freedom Of
opportunity for everybody hut opportti-
nifty won't come looking for US. We must
20 running for IT, watching every open
ing looking FOR Improvement. looking for
the way which our employer must find il
we do not make his capital and his eff
forts pay him little better. In that
way Our efforts. which are our capital.
will pay us better and better.
A DRUMMER.