The Penn's Grove record., 1900-12-21
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into complete accord by the Spanish wal,
which put the Lees and the Grants on the
same side, V~ermonters and Georgians in
the same brigade. And since our Civil
War we arc all mixed up. Southern men
have married Northern wives, and North
ern men have married Southern wives,
and your children are half Mississippian
and half New Englander, and to make an
other division between the North and the
South possible you would have to do with
your child as Solomon proposed with the
child brought before him for Judgment
divide it with the sword. giving half TO
the North and half to the South. No;
there is nothing 50 hard to split az a era
die. In other lands there is compulsory
marriage of royal families, some bright
princess compelled to marry some disa-
Rrecable foreign dignitary in order to keep
the balance Of political power in Europe,
the Unmatched pair fighting out on q
small scale that which would have been
an international contest, sometimes the
husbsnd having the balance of power and
sometimes the wife.
Besides this we have in our country
plenty of room, while the transatlantic ma
tions are crowded-crowded cities, crowded
governments, crowded learned institutions;
the population crowded, packed in be-
tween the Pyrenees and the Alps, packed
III between the English Channel and the
Ad1iatic. Yes; on our continent plenty of
room. Eight million square miles in
North America, and all but one-seventh
capable of rich cultivation, implying what
fertility and -Four basins pour
ing their waters into the Atlantic, Pa
ciic, Arctic and Gulf OF Mexico.
An Englishman asked me in an English
raid train this question. How do you peo-
pie stand it in America with a revolution
every four years? Would it not be better,
Ike US, to ave a queen for a lifetime and
everything settledyv But England changes
government as certainly as we do. At
some adverse vote in Parliament out goes
one party, and in comes another.
The majority of the people of the Uni
ted States are on their way to fortunes.
They viii either he rich themselves or
their children viii be rich. If / should
put TO acme men the question, Would
you have q fortune and let your children
struggle all through their lives in the same
kind of struggle that you have had to
makeyV scores of men would say: IT am
willing to fight this battle all the way
through, but give my children a chance.
4 do not care so much about myself. 1t il
only Tor ten or twenty years, anyhow.
Give my children a chance"
tbcfc 10 anything tUdt SUITS my al
miration it is a man without any educa-
ton himself sending his SONS to college,
and without any opportunity for luxury
himself resolved that though he shall have
it hard all the days Of his life his children
shall have a good start.
And tell you that though sons Of our
people may have great commercial strug-
giles there il going to be a great opening
for their sons and daughters as they come
on to take their places in the world.
Continuing this international comparison
have to say to you that we have a bet
ter climate than is to be found In any
othsr nation. We do not suffer from any
thing like the Scotch mists or the English
fogs or the Russian ice blasts or the ty-
phus Of Southern Europe or the Asiatic
cholera. Epidemics in America ere ex-
ceptional, very exceptional. Plenty Of
wood and coal to make a roaring fire mid
winter. Easy access to seabeach or mount
ain top when the ardors of summer come
down, Michigan wheat for the bread,
Long Island corn for the meal, Carolina
rice for the yucca Of buildings, Louisiana
sugar to sweeten our beverages, Georgia
cotton to keep Us warm, in our hand all
products and all climates. Are your nerves
weak Go north. Is your throat delicate?
go south1 crowded and Eantu