Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-22
OUR NATIONS NEEDS.
MORE GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR HIS
BLESSINGS.


For Our Lack of Appreciation of
the Lords bounty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Dr. Talmage
breaches a discourse Of Christian pa
triotism and shows the resources Of
our country and predicts the time when
nil the world will have the same bless
ings. His two texts are, Revelations
xxi, 13, "On the south three gates;"
Psalm cxlvii, 90, "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 ma
ton on all the planet has of late bad
such enlargement Of commercial OPP
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 $G75. 100000 worth of goods in a
year, only $126.000,O00 worth went
from the United States-$126.000,000
out Of 500 100000, only one-ffth Of
the trade ours, European nations TAX
ing the four fingers and leaving us the
poor thumb. Now all this is to be
changed. There is nothing but COM
parative ferry between the islands
which have recently come under our
protection and only a 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 in 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 l nail on the front door of tl,is
nation an advertisement:
Wanted One hundred thousand men
to build railroads through South Amer
lea and the islands of the sea under
our protection.
Wanted.-A thousand telegraph OPP
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, aud ell 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.
Wanted doctors to cure our sick.
Wanted. - Ministers to evangeliZe
our population.
Wanted to establish our
universities.
"On the south three gates! 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 $l25.OOOOOO
yearly expended by Americans in Eu-
rope will be expended in southern eX-
ploration, in looking at some OF the
ruins Of the Al cities which Stephens
found only a little way apart. and in
walking through the great doorways
and over the miracles Of mosaic and
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 q collar and cravat ana a
shoe and q coat and a pronunciation
and a contempt for American inStitu-
tons and the bend of the elbow that
make one believe in evolution back
ward from man to ape. or the many
who now cross the sea an
nually thousands will on pleasure and
business visit southern lands. and so
tourists and merchants and scientists
and capitalists will all help in this ma
tional development. ION the south
three gates" And what other nation
has such openings for commercial en-
as ours?
Our Happy Condition.
Again. in this international comparl-
son notice the happy condition of our
country a. compared with most coun-
tries. Russia under the shadow OF the
dreadful Illness of her great and good
emperor. who now more than any man
in all the world represents peace on
earth. good will to men," and whose
empress. near the most solemn hour
that ever comes to a woman's soul. Is
anxious for him to whom she has given
hand and heart. not for political rea-
sons. but through old fashioned love
such as blesses our humber dwellings;