The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-12-22
A FAVORED NATION.
DR.. Talmage Speaks of Prosperity
OF American People.
Divine Blessings showered Upon Us
-He Draws Compa risOns Be-
tween Our own and
Other Countries.

OF Christian patriotism and shows the
resources of our country and predicts
the time when all the world will have
the same blessings. His two texts are
Revelation xxi, 13: ION the south
three gates;" Psalm cxlvii.: "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
nation on all the planet has OF late
had such enlargement of commercial
opportunity as is now opening before
this nation? Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands brought
into close contact with us, and
through steamship subsidy and MIC
.aragua canal, which will surely be
afforded by congress, all the republics
of South America will be brought into
most active trade with the United
States. ION the south three gates"
While our next-door neighbors, the
southern republics and neighboring
colonies, imported from European
countries 5000 miles away $675,000, 900
worth of goods in year, only $780,
100000 worth went from the United
-States-$i26, 100000 out of $675,000,-
900, only one-fifth of the trade ours,
European nations taking the four fin
gers and leaving us the poor thumb.
Now all this is to be changed. There
is nothing but comparative ferry
between the islands which have re-
Gently come under our protection,
and only ferry between us and Bo-
livia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay. Nene-
-zuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia,
Costa Rica,. Ecuador, Brazil, while
there are raging seas and long voy-
age between them and Europe. BY
the mandate of the United States all
that will be changed through new IA
cilities of transportation. The His
pano-American congress just closed
at Madrid will fail in its attempt to
divert all the trade of South America
from us to Europe. What encourag-
ing symptoms that our trade with
Cuba and Porto Rico has been quad
rupled! But that is only prophecy.
"On the south three gates'-yea, a
hundred gates!
In anticipation of what is sure to
come, l nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement:
Wanted. = One hundred thousand
men to build railroads through South
America 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 ce+f mold at Troy and
all the 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 Pitts
burgh and all the statesmen that you
can spare fror. Washington.
Wanted - Right away, wanted by
new and swift steamers, wanted by
rail-train, lawyers to plead our
causes.
Wanted-Doctors to cure our sick.
our population.
Wanted = Professors to establish
our universities.
son 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 $4,000, 900
yearly expended by Americans in Eu-
rope will be expended in southern ex-
ploration, in looking at some of the
ruins of the AZ cities which Stephens
found only little way apart and in
walking through the great doorways
and over the miracles of Mosaic and
along by the monumental glories of
another civilization, and ancient
America will with cold lips of stone
kiss the warm lips Of modern America,
and to have seen the Andes and Popo-
catapetl will be deemed as important
as 10 nave seen the .Nlplnt anu tdihdD
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
intentional hesitancy of brainless
foreign swell. The fact is that many
are made vain by European travel, and,
though sensible when they embarked,
they return with a collar and cravat
and a shoe and coat and pronun-
citation and contempt for American
institutions and bend Of the elbow
that make one believe in evolution
backward from man to ape. OF the
many thousands who now cross the sea
annually thousands will, on pleasure
and business, visit southern lands, and
so tourists and merchants and scien-
lists and capitalists will all help in this
national development "On the south
three gates" And what other nation
has such openings for commercial en-
1argement as ours?
Again, in this international COM
parison notice the happy condition Of
our country as compared with most
countries; Russia, under the shadow