The sun., 1900-09-25

waii and the Philippines, and have some
interest in Cuba; and l 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 believe
it is, consider what 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 all the nmmberless new and in
creasng 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 million years.
1t has been going on since the world
began, and it will continue to go on.
/ faster than ever. | guess. TO the end of
time. 1t happens when a people fairly
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bounds. There must be an outlet for the
products OF our farms and factories. for
the capital and talents OF oar business
men and hustlers.
Sometimes this expansion of new
strength, which amounts TO an explosion
of new strength, must be preceded by a
battleship, even by a part OF a standing
army, or q permanent garrison, as in
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times the battleship and the standing
army, or Il part OF it, just enough to hold
our own and make no doubt Of it. must
follow.
The missionaries (who typify in a way
the advance OF civilization into heather
4 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 ant
better things; they are climbing, climbing
climbing, always upon higher plane OF
living. These things they work for, ant
, fight for, and die for. SO long as thai
) restless, worldconquerng sentiment ex
lists, there will he expansion. So long
too, the races Of the earth which hav,
: found themselves, and are still findinl
! selling, and fighting, and civilizing capac
ity of the Anglo-Saxons, must step aside
they must learn to fight and to trade, ant
to trade and to fight, much better; that i
e all.
2 / 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 optimist
mean by destiny; we are not afraid of il
! we welcome it. We have done in the las
: three years hundred years Of work
[ which, however, we couldn't have done
y If we hadn't been prepared, if we hadn'
G been that kind of people.
( There is not true American man i
y these United States that is not better of
s. in his patriotism or his pecuniary pros
It poets, for the tasks of war and of state:
V manship that have been undertaken an
II discharged in the last three years. Yo
e are better oH, whoever you are; and al
l. better off. Even if L had not been ne,
l. essary to my employer in the field an
h had not been kept on the payroll, the
d there would have been ten times til
d freedom OF opportunity. which is all an
t. good man can want. There is freedom {
NJ opportunity for everybody: but opportl
j, nifty won't come looking for us. We mu.
e. go running for it. watching every opel
a. ing. looking for improvement, looking (,
Sc the way which our employer must find
lie we do not make his capital and his @
Sc forts pay him a little better. In tn,
e, way our efforts, which are our capita
will pay US better and better.
a. A DRUMMER.