The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-22

Dr@Wt SoAHtarisoAlA between OuE own
and other Counties Our Duty to Tx
tsnd These blessings to the World
Some Happy Conditions.
CcopyrIght. 1900. Louis Kiopseh. n. -
Washington, Dec. 16-Dr Taimage
breaches a discourse Of Christian pa
triotism and shows the resources Of
our country and predicts the time
when all the world will have the same
blessings. His two texts are Reve-
lation xxi, ls. on the south three
gates:p Psalm cxlvii-. HE hath not
dealt SO with any nation"
Among the greatest needs Of our
country Is more gratitude to God for
the unparalleled prosperity bestowed
upon Us. One Of my texts calls us to
international comparison. What ma
tion on all the planet mas Of late had
such enlargement Of commercial on
p0rtunity as is now opening before this
natiOn2 Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands brought into close
contact with us.and through steamship
subsidy and Nicaragua canal, which
will surely be afforded by congress,
all the republics Of South America will
be brought into most active trade with
the United States. "On the south three
gates" While our next door neigh
bors. the southern republics and neigh
boring colonies. imported from Euro
pean countries 5000 miles away $685.
100000 worth Of goods In a year. only
sl26 900 900 worth went from the Unit
ed states-S S12e. 600 900 out Of s675. .000,-
600. only one-ffth Of the trade ours
European nations taking the four fin
gers and leaving us the poor thumb.
Now all this is to be changed. There
Is nothing but a comparative ferry be-
tween the islands which have recently
come under our protection. and only
a ferry between us and Bolivia. Peru,
Paraguay. Uruguay. Venezuela, Saliva
dor, Nicaragua. Colombia, Costa Rica.
Ecuador. Brazil. while there are raging
seas and long voyage between them
and Europe. BY the mandate of the
United States all that will be changed
through new facilities Of transporta-
ton.
The Nations Advertisements.
In anticipation Of what Is sure to
come, nail on the front door Of this
nation an advertisement:
Wanted-One hundred thousand
men % build railroads through South
America and the island Of the sea un-
der our protection.
Wanted.--A thousand telegraph op-
orators.
Wanted.-One hundred million dol
lars worth Of dry goods from the great
Nties OF the United States.
Wanted.-Al the clocks you can
make at New Haven and all the brains
you can spare from Boston and all the
bells sou can mold at Troy and all the
Mccormick reapers yoa can fashion
at Chicago and all the hams you can
turn out at Cincinnati and all the rail-
road iron you can send from Pitts
burg and all the statesmen that you
can spare from Washington.
Wanted.-Right away, wanted by
new and swifter steamers. wanted by
rail-train, lawyers to plead our cause.
Wanted.-Doctors to cure our sick.
Wanted.-Minlsters to evangelize
our population.
Wanted.-Professors to establish our
universities.
"On the south three gates" yea. a
fhourona ooror Co~tb tr,o-f,. ,,1
all the islands Of the sea approximate
are rightfully our commercial do
main. and the congress- Of the United
States viii see to it that we get what
belongs TO us.
And then tides Ok Gravel will be
somewhat diverted from Europe to our
iE1ands at the south and to the land Of
the Aztecs. Much OF the sl25,000 900
yearly expended by Americans IN Eu-
rope viii be expended IN southern ex-
ploration. In looking at some Of the
ruins OF the AZ cities which Stephens
found only a little way apart and in
walking through the great doorways
and over the miracles OF mosaic and
along by the monumental glories OF
another civilization. and ancient AM
erica viii with cold lips Of stone kiss
the warm lips Of modern America. and
to have seen the Andes and Popocate-
petl VIII be deemed as important as to
have seen the Alpine and Balkan
ranges. and there win be fewer people
spoiled by foreign travel. and in our
midst less OF the poor and nauseating
imitation Of a brainless foreign swell.
some Happy Conditions.
Again. in this international compar-
ison notice the happy condition Of our
country as compared with most c0un-
tries Russia under the shadow of the
dreadful illness Of her great and good
emperor, who now. more than amy man
ia an the world. represents peace on
earth. good viii to men, and whose
near the most solemn hour
that ever comes to a woman's soul. is
anxious for him 10 whom she has
given hand and heart. not for political
reasons. but through old fashioned
love such as blesses our humber
dwellings. India under the agonies Of
a famine which. though somewhat lift
cd has Hffn1 hnm1rnrr ,f fh.rco~ae. ~