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

bounds to settlement and left the path
open to the Pacific ocean. The later
purchases and ceSSiOnS from Spain and
Mexico removed the barriers to n gulf
and made sure The extension to the Pa
cific. the control of which is now Sc
cured by the possession of Hawaii and
the Philippines. When SPANS Op-
pressed cOlonies shook off b yoke and
removed from the hemisphere the sec
ond power that might prove danger
Gus, President MonTOe'S declaration
II a the American continents thence
forth were not to be considered sub
jects for future colonization by any
European Sufficed to secure non
interference with the affairs OF the
United States and TO save South Amer
la from the fate of Africa. The war
OF 1872 with England made clear the
necessity of home manufactures and
FASTENED the industrial development of
the country. The great civil war put
an end to the CauScS of diSSenSion Of
half a century by deciding that the
Mol of the states is indissOluble, and
a~bOlishins black slavery President
LincOln's emancipation proclamation,
followed SOOl by Car Alexander lis
liberation of the Russian serfs, marks
the end of slaveholding by white men.
National Capitalization in Europe.
Europe saw the rapid extension and
more rapid fall of NaPOleOn's empire.
The terror inspired by him and by the
revolution from which he sprang led
to a genera repression of freedom by
the Governments of the continent, from
Whic France managed TO escape IN
1880. but central Europe. not till well
in the latter end of the century, in
spite of the mOmentary outbreak in
1915. a new theory of nationality, that
those speaking the same language
should be Joined in one country, spranS
.-r --a L-ATaI int a4aLF hn~ Fha
union of Italy in a new nation in 1850
The same idea led to the absorption of
the smaller states Of Germany into the
new German empire under Prussia
hegemOny, formed after the defeat of
France in 1871 The idea is at work in
the Slavic lands, and has a new
UuEn in the Tor common dC-
tiGn among the cClonIeS of Great Brl-
tain. and in GeTmany'S desire to hold
together her former subjects who have
emigrated. The formation OF the new
German empire and its rise to q power
of the first rank has been accompanied
by an astonishing commercial and IN
dustriaI development. il has led, too, to
the establishment of compulsory mill
tary service for all by the nations OF
the continent GeTmauy'S belated
greed for foreign colonies. like that Of
. France. could be gratihed only in trOp-
zeal lands. Great Britain had already
. n HAN pm ga ~@Hh E[A $500
The pre-eminenCe in and
7 the start in manufactures which GTcdJ
Britain had at the beginning Of the
/ Napoleonic wars it has retained
throughout the century. The change
from wooden sailing vessels TO iron
steamships came when the United
States. her chief competitor, was busy
with the civil war, and neither the
British iron vessels nor the steel yes
sells that have taken their place have
been caught up with. With her manu-
features she has controlled the mar
kets of the world, but at the end of the
century n has eager rivals, who are
3 fast OverhauIins her. During the cen
fury she mas not only strengthened her
hold on her rich empire in India, but
her sons have succeeded in settling and
developing TIE great Canadian and
. Australian colonies Remembering the
lesson of 1915. she has conceded 10
them substantial independence.
Russia. the riddle Of the beginning, is
still the riddle of the end of the cen