Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-02-10
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century, and it was American war for
I humanity which eliminated with the
! planting of the banner of the stars on
/ the coast of Asia where the wall of
slavery and the cry of the oppressed
! had been ascending for four centuries
/ to the God who delays but never for
4 gets.
History Will always be our greatest
teacher. What panorama it pre-
Sents to the philosopher. ASiatic civ
| iliZatIon came to a standStill in the
east about the very time that our
4 Anglo-SaXOn ancestors were sweeping
over the Ural mountains in the west.
Those rugged war-like Goths over
spread northern Europe, overturned
( the corrupt and degenerate Roman
empire, conquered Great Britain,
pausing there to renew their strength
/ for the task of climbing New Eng
I lands rocky sleeps, then over the Al
4 leghanieS like an avalanche, thence
with their Bible and Rifle brigade to
\ the wind swept prairies of Kansas.
and on again they sent their best and
4 bravest in the shape of the Fighting
/ Twentieth to complete their mission
| of girdling the globe by laundering
/ at the gates of Asia. Always and
ever sending ''forth the best carry
/ ing the white mans burden.
1.-The ports they could not enter,
the reads they could not tread; thev
made them with their living and
marked them with their dead
/ The white mans burden is to carry
/ the blessings of civilization to the ut
termost parts of the earth. 1t is a
! heavy burden. but. happily. the di-
vine. plan, under which the world
moves, is so arranged that the path
of true self interest lies CLOSE to the
path of duty 1t is a truism as old as
\ history that those who do and dare
/ reap the greatest part of the good
things of life. "Better fifty years of
Europe than cycle of Cathay." In
all the bright constellation of our
own national heroes, by field or flood.
I in commerce or In the cabinet, no
guided puppet of the social swirl may
I be found: every one of them fought
I his wav up from the ranks. from the
/ log cabin and the tow-path, the an
ward and the chandler'S shop. If the
twentieth century is to duplicate the
nineteenth, the sturdy virtures of our
( fathers must not be suffered to decay.
I Nacaulay had a vission of a time
when the barrier of the Pacific ocean
would stop American enterprise and
we would lose the strenuous. manly
spirit of a pioneer people. and the til
tie of progress having no other outlet.
would roll back upon itself, crushing
the republican institutions which
gave it birth. 1t was darksome
picture, but Macaulay dreamed not
that in this larger. better England
would evolve a people who would give
a million men and ten billions of
treasure and oceans of tears and rIy-
erS of blood to maintain its national
integrity. and would at later date
and in difiance of all Europe deSpatch
its sons across the seas for humanita-
rian reasons alone and without hope
of material reward to Stav the lash of
vestage of medieval tyranny from the
American continent.
Talk of the glories of the nine
teenth century / grant them all. We
have harneSsed the elements of ma
ture to minister to our wants: the
steam engine bowls us over the land
at sixty miles an hour; the balloon
watts us through the air on fairy
wings: our iron leviathanS plow the
mighty. deen: our starry flag floats on
every sea: the electric ray reveals al
most the secrets of life itself: and we
draw the very lightning from the
clouds to illumine the darkest night
with the radiance of the MONDAY sun
All these triumphS are our reward for
Shouldering the white mans burden,
but these are only the dawn which
tells of glorious nooh-tide yet TO be.
Here we must not, shall not stop.
IF the people rest contented with the good
they have accomplished.
They will retrograde and slowly sink away:
Give a nation an ideal. some grand. noble.
central object
1t, like adamant. refuses to decay"
And / count it most fortunate for
our political welfare that the Spanish
war left us heavy and important
burden to carry in the Orient. To
what a low plane had our politics fal-
len in the last presidential campaign
The birds of Ill omen croaked about
the dark and damning crimes of
generation before, an alliance of the
south and the west against the north
and the east. one prominent partisan
characterized Massachusetts = the
cradle of liberty-as the enemies
country. and it was solemnly avowed
that the nation was on the virge of
moral, political, and material ruin
What change in three short years.
1t seems as if the wand of some
mighty magician had passed over the
land and aroused the nation from its
lethargv. Republican policies, which
harmoniZes with the sDirit of our
race and time. scattered the blight
of democratic paralysis. summoned