, 1900-01-10
DIR. JOHN II. BARROWS SHOWS
WHY AMERICA SHOULD
BE HAPPY.
Period of Prosperity-Country Becomes
a World Power by the Recent Con-
lict Expansion Means Greater
Progress-Uncle Sam to Aid in
Moral Uplifting of Asia.

World-pOwer, and has in part PLACED
in its hands the moral uplifting o
Asia.
1t is easily discernible that DR.. Bar
rows is an eXpansionist, and that ht
sees a great future ahead in the policy
that has added thousands of square
miles to the national domain. DR.. Bar,
rows said:
Bushnell once preached a sermon or
the theme, Prosperity Our Duty In
Thanksgiving, we strike at once the
fact that hundreds of thousands OF
homes are this year contented and hap
Ply which a few years ago were filled
with poverty and distress. People who
live in comfort are too apt, as they
think of national affairs, to wave aside
such a reason for gratitude as increas-
ed material prosperity. But deeper
thOughtfulness and sympathy do not
overlook this unreasonable blessing
linked, in the present case, with other
anu SltaAtl liNNo 4 "pBtoA ~ W
termine our national destiny. Never
before in our 1913 years of history has
there been such a splendid advance
ment, not only in material things, but
in national prestige and power. The
people, full of the expansive purpose
and energy of the Teuton and the Sax
on, have burst from their isolation, and
America is now repeating on a vaster
scale the achievements Of England and
Holland in the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries. As one of the results
of the dominant financial and indus
trial policy, and as a natural issue of
the Spanish-American war, the United
States has not only added to its COM
mercial prestige in the West Indies
and in South America, but has risen to
paramount power in the Pacific ocean.
"Mr. Stewards prophecies have been
fulfilled. With Alaska, Porto Rico,
Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines
added to the national territory, with
the certainty that the Nicaragua canal
must speedily bring New York and
Boston nearer to the populous Asiatic
| coasts than are London IND Liverpool.
America is supreme on the shores of
that ocean wherein the majority of
the worlds inhabitants may be said to
dwell. The prediction is already made
that the future greatest city Of the
world will some day lift its marts of
trade and temples Of worship on the
westcrn-or it may be the eastern-side
| of that ocean. Before the twenty-first
century is old, San Francisco or Shang-
hal may be claiming the commercial
supremacy of the globe.
g." At the peace jubilee in Chicago in
October, 1898, one of the speakers de-
| Clared the battle of Manila to be the
greatest event in American history
since Lincoln's proclamation Of eman-
cipation. Benjamin Kidd, the English
writer, was present on that occasion.
| Some time afterward, at a banquet CIV
en- to him in New York, he spoke of
Dewey's victory as the chief event since
Waterloo. Professor Giddings of Co
lumbia university, at the same ban
quet. declared it to be the leading his
torical event since the crushing defeat
of the Saracens at Tours. How car we
Justify such strong declarations? That
victory Of May /, 1898, not only helped
the speedy subsection Of Spain, but lift
ed the flag of American supremacy at
the very gates of the far east.
"The smoke of that battle had hard
cleared away before We saw the sha-
dow of the great American republic
flung vast, beneficent, and far over the
tropic isles and populous coasts OF
Asia. Thus, in a new and unexpected
sense, America has become a world
power. And the people have clearly
expressed their unalterable purposes
to remain such.
"The higher, more confident, more
aspiring A~mericanism, utterly scorn'
full of the pessimistic retractions of ou'
national vigor and virtue, has accepted
as divine providences the results o
the war, which no one foresaw. Rarel!
has any nation been thrilled with {
prouder patriotism than that of oul
people in the last two years. Our con
fiict with Spain was s o clearly a wa
for humanity, and was SO universally
approved, that the sinister attempts t.
make it appear otherwise have beer
abandoned as foolish and futile. Oh
how abundant were the IL O.
courage, self-sacrifice, patriotic devo'
ton disclosed in the midst of our rout'
inc of peaceful and ordinary life! The
Nation came to a new consciousness o.
itself, of its strength, its unity its mis-
sion and destiny. Guided, on the whole
with remarkable wisdom by an admin.
istration that has shown how to fol
low as well as how to lead, we have
emerged into a large place.
1.-THE dismal prophecies Of the great
national peril from the annexation OF
Hawaii already appear among the alb.
surdities and incredibilities Of history
The American people have not doubt.
cd their ability or their duty to become
colonizing states.
"They have not cut themselves Of
from the traditions of English history
nor have they thought that death lie:
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