, 1900-06-12

against anti-expansiOn is in the hearts
Of h American people, and it loses
none of its potency because it is I'M
spoken. When a poor boy begins a
life of thrift and industry and p~ursues
his work until at middle age he has a
full competency, enough to provide for
all who are deal to him, and to live all
his days on a 1.-THE of his income, he
does not stop and devote himself to in
GOcent enjoyment. He keeps at work
and continues to save, because to labor
and to save have become second nature
TO him. Again, it is a habit Of many
dogs to turn around four or five times
before they lie down. This is because
their grcat-grandfathers were wolves.
and had to tread down the grass tc
make themselves beds. Well, the sec
GDd nature that comes of habit and
heredity are both impelling the Ameri-
can people onward. The fathers began
on the seashore. Behind them we're
but the rolling waters. before them
we're only the forest, in which the wild
beast and still wilder man lurked. but
with a sublime faith and an energy that
only age could tame, they went to
work. Slowly the forests melted away,
and homes and gardens appeared; but
the toll was i~ncessant, while seven gen.
erations Of great men and women wore
out their splendid lives. Then they
emerged from the forest and entered
upon the prairies, and then their west
ern march was accelerated. Pioneers
pushed through the waste to Oregon;
others pushed their way to the Salt
Lake valley, and two years later the
great exodus to the Golden coast be-
gan. In the meantime new agents had
come to their support. The deep res
pirations of the steam engine were
heard first upon the water and then up
on the land; then la~bor-saving ma
chinery began to multiply; then the
electric telegraph began to make the
nations that had been separated by
oceans and mountains neal %neighbors:
the perfecting press was a natural evo-
luton, and appeared because the peo.
pies Of the earth wanted every day the
history of the previous day; then the
electric light began to illuminate the
world, and the electric motors began tc
help mar in his toll. In the meantime
the population had from a little nu.
Cleus of people multiplied to 5000, 900,
the settlements, from a little fringe
along the eastern sea, had encompasset
a continent, and every mountain tor
had become a signal station of civiliza
ton. The impelling of the race onward
has become hereditary; the reducing o
means to ends has become an exac
science, and to push onward now ha!
become second nature. Can anything
stop the progress of such a people
Ought anything to stop it? The orator.
will in decrying expansion talk to dea
ears, the newspapers that swell note!
of fear will be unread. And they SHOULD
he. Skirting both great oceans ant
producing the food, the textiles, tn,
steel of a world: offering the example
CT a system of government which inter
feres with no mar in the exercise o
any legitimate right, We do not man.
of us realize what we are to the world
hopes, what place we fill among tn
worlds peoples. Who would clip tn
eagle wings of such a people? VIII
would stop such a career at the ocean
shore? We have IL work to do, tn
, limits Of the nations achievement
! will be bounded only by its courage
and the only thing to guard against /
the doing of any wrong.-Salt LAX
, Tribupp