The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-09-20

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interest in Cuba; and I venture to say
that the increased and increasing bust
ness in those distant islands has already
more than absorbed the work Of all the
drummers in the country who have lost
their positions through Industrial COM
binations. If that is true, and T believe
it Is, consider what a 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,
to meet al the numberless new and in
creasing demands of our prosperous and
proud American men, women, sweet
hearts, wives, cousins, aunts and chill
dren, and all the countless millions, who,
as we can be 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 them.
That is expansion.
You cannot stop it in a million years!
1t has been going on since the world
began, and it will continue to 90 on.
faster than ever, l guess, to the end of
time. 1t happens when a people fairly
bursts its manufacturing and commercial
bounds. There must be an outlet for the
products of our farms and factories. for
the capital and talents Of our business
men and hustlers.
Sometimes this expansion of new
strength, which amounts to an explosion
of new strength, must be preceded by a
battleship, eve by a part of a standing
army, or a permanent garrison, as in
Porto Rico or the Philippines. At other
times the battleship and the standing
army, or a part of it, just enough to hold
our own and make no doubt of it, must
follow.
The missionaries (who typify in a way
tue advance of civilization into heather
lands, as we call them) are best of all the
daring forerunners 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, and die for. So long as that
restless, world-conquering sentiment ex-
lists. there will be 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.
l try to say these things thoughtfully.
as a drummer, notorious as he is for talk.
ing, may sometimes do. This expansion
that l speak of Is what we optimists
mean by destiny; we are not afraid of r.
we welcome it. We have done in the last
three years a hundred years of work
which. however, we couldn't have done,
If we hadn't been prepared, If we hadn't
been that kind Of people.
There is not a true American man :,
these United States that is not bettar oef
in his patriotism or his pecuniarv nrns'
poets, for the tasks of war and of sta+os-
manship that have been undertaken ond.
dlscnarged IN the last three years. You
are better OIL, whoever you are; and I am
oetter on. Even If l had not been nee
essary to my employer in the field and
mad not been kept On the payroll. then
there would have been ten times the
freedom of opportunity, which is all any
good man can want. There is freedom of
opportunity for everybody; but opportu-
nifty won't come looking for us. We must
go running for it, watching every open-
ing. looking for Improvement, looking for
the way which our employer must find If
we do not make his capital and his ef-
forts pay him a little better. In that
way our efforts, which are our capital.
will pay us better and better.
A DRUMMER.