The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
- GEORGE TORRl


Whatever the future may bring the
nineteenth century must be looked
upon as a turning point in the history
vi che world. In material achievement
it has surpassed every century that
preceded it. it has been an age of sci
entidC Investigation and discovery, fol-
lowed at once by practical application
to the uses of man, an age of marvel
Gus mechanical inventions. which have
completely changed the habits as they
have added immensely to the powers of
mankind, an age of unparalleled eX-
pansioD in territory and increase IN
numbers for the white races which
have been the bearers Of civilization
The temperate regions On the globe, on
the American continent, in Australia
and New Zealand, i'm southern Africa
i'm northern Asia save only in the eX-
IRENE east. are all in the white mans
hands. and all. too, in his sole posses
sion. for the sparse native population
mas everywhere died away at his APP
proach- He alone has the land on
which 10 multiply and develop, and
science may yet give him the power to
master the climate of the tropical re-
EiOns he mas seized upon.
In this new conquest of The world
the first and most marked factor has
been the growth and development Of
the United States of America. the
spread of its free institutions and their
reaction on the political system of
western Europe The young COnfeder-
acy with us 5000. 900 inhabitants be-
tween the A~lleghanies and the sea, shut
off from the Gulf of Mexico. and with
the Mississippi for its western bound
airy, has become in a hundred years q
compact nation of 6,000,0 600
stretching from ocean To ocean. equal
in strength and to n Eu-
ropean power. with every prospect Of
becoming within "a measurable time
equal 10 all Europe combined. The
growth has been rapid, steady and un-
checked In the half century of bond
age TO absolute governments IN which
thu greater part of Europe was held for
half the century, the prosperous CON
ditiOn of the American republic. the
sole example of peaceful gov eminent by
q free people. served To keep alive the
hope of liberty in the old world.
Influence of the United States.
The frame of government devised 20
hold together weak and disjcinted col
OuieS. proved adequate Tor all the needs
OF a great nation. 1t became NmposSI-
bic To keep q the HDefJles uelhoIl-
strated to be beneficial. and now an
western Europe enjoys in subsistence
representative government. freedom OF
eneech. freedom of the press, equality
before the Law. freedom to migrate
popular suffrage and the right for
every one to pursue a suitable csuiHS'
~r.gardIess of class or sex. Meme of its
hereditary rulers can regard his pow
or seriously as derived from divine
right. but must base it on the VIII OF
she people and the observance of a con
hrituJiOn-
Ihe century began with the destruc-
ton By the United States navy of one
historic sham, the power of the Bar
barry pirates, whose m~olesIdllohs
Europe was content to put up with long
after their W for harm was gone
n ends xitn the crushing by the same
navy of another decTepit historic re-
vivaI. the remnant of Spain's colonial
Dover. In the interval the political
--e,fe of lasting consequences are
few. The purchase of Louisiana III
1-49 through the foresight of Thomas
Jefferson doubled the area OF the
United States, tore down the western