Connecticut western news., 1900-12-20
OUR NATIONS NEEDS.
MORE GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR HIS
 BLESSINGS.


 tian Patrtotism Takes Us to Task the Lords Bounty.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Dr. Talmage breaches a discourse of Christian pa tr1otism and shows the resources of our country and predicts the time when all the world will have the same bless ings. His two texts are, Revelations xxi, 13, "On the south three gates;" Psalm cxlvii, 20, 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 na- tion on all the planet has of late had such enlargement of commercial op- portunity as Is now opening before this nation? Cuba and Porto Rica and the Philippine Islands brought into close contact with us, and through steam ship subsidy and Nicaragua canal, which will surely be afforded by con- gress, all the republics of South Ameri- ca will be brought into most active trade with the United States. "On the south three gates" While our next door neighbors, the southern republics and neighboring colonies, imported from European countries 5000 miles away $675, ,0OO, 900 worth of goods in year, only $12e,OOO,OOO worth went from the United States-$126,00 100000 out of $675.00O,0OO, only one-fifth of kk.> I@ y,afi a ing the four fingers and leaving us the poor thumb. Now all this is to be changed. There Is nothing but com paratlve ferry between the islands which have recently come under our protection and only ferry between us and Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uru- quay, Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and 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 transportation. The His pano-American congress, just closed at Madrid, will fail iii Its attempt to di- vert all the trade of South America from us to Europe.
 An Advertisement.
 In anticipation of what Is sure to come I nail on the front door of this nation an advertisement:
 Wanted.-One hundred thousand men to build railroads through South Amer ica and the islands of the sea under our protection.
 Wanted.-A thousand telegraph op- orators.
 Wanted.-One hundred million dol lars worth of dry goods from the great cities of the United States.
 Wanted.-All the clocks you can make at New Haven, and all the brains you can spare from Boston, and all the bells you can mold at Troy, and all the Mccormick reapers you can fashion at Chicago, and all the hams you can turn out at Cincinnati, and all the railroad iron you can send from Pittsburg, 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 causes 1 Wanted.-Doctors to cure our sick. Wanted. = Ministers to evangelize our population.
 Wanted-Professors to establish our universities.
 "On the south three gatesw Yea, a thousand gates! South America and all the islands of the sea approximate are rightfully our commercial domain. and the congress of the United States will see to it that we get what belongs to us.
 And then tides of travel will be some what diverted from Europe to our is- lands at the south and to the land of the Aztecs. Much of the $125, ,0OO, ,0OO yearly expended by Americans in Eu- rope will be expended In southern ex- ploration, in looking at some of the ruins of the AT cities which Stephens found only little way apart, and in walking through the great doorways along by the monumental glories of an- other civilization, and ancient America will with cold lips of stone kiss the warm lips of modern America, and to have seen the Andes and Popocatepetl will be deemed as important as to have seen the Alpine and Balkan ranges. And there will be fewer people spoiled by foreign travel and In our midst less of the poor and nauseating imitation of the French shrug and the intention al hesitancy of a brainless foreign swell. The fact Is that many are made vain by European travel and, though sensible when they embarked they re- turn with a collar and cravat and a shoe and a coat and pronunciation and a contempt for American institu tions and the bend of the elbow that make one believe in evolution back ward from man to ape. Of the many thousands who now cross the sea an nually thousands will on pleasure and business visit southern lands, and SC tourists and merchants and scientists and capitalists will all help in this ma tional development "On the soutl three gates" And what other nation has such openings for commercial en largement as ours?
 Our Happy Condition.
 ! Again, in this international compari son notice the happy condition of ou country as compared with most coun tries. Russia under the shadow of tn, dreadful illness of her great and goot emperor, who now more than any mar in aa the world represents peace oI earth, good will to men," and who's emppess, near the most solemn hou that ever comes to woman's soul, i anxious for him to whom she has givel hand and heart, not for political req sons, but through old fashioned lov such as blesses our humber dwellings India, under the agonies of famin which though somewhat lifted has fill ed hundreds of thousands of grave, and thrown millions into orphanage Austria only waiting for her genia Francis Joseph to die so as to let Hun gary rise In rebellion and make th palace of Vienna quake with insurrec ton; Spain in Carlist revolution ant pauperized as seldom any nation ha been pauperized; Italy under the hor TOTS of her kings assassination; Chin,