Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-01

part under the guiding hand Of an in
finite intelligence. It is we'll to look upon
the f~uture-not as a great storehouse of
raw materials out of which to create cir
cumstances of our own ~liking-but as a
field in which to cultivate the better ele-
ments of our nature. with the knowledge
that we shall reap the harvest that is
honestly our due.
Aspiration in almost any direction
sooner or later clothes itself with en-
vironments more or less to it's taste, but
no man can provide against the current
of circumstances projected from other
lives. or stem the tides that ebb and
flow over the field of his personal ambi-
tons. hat come unforeseen out of the
underlined limits of the future. He, then,
is most truly a philosopher who learns
the lessons of the past only to realize
that while they may be factors in the
sum total of human knowledge, they are
not necessarily infallible guides for the
AAtuAC. Ill "oi III lHC MATERIAL
problems of life, the movement which led
to success last year may encounter fail
ure this year: and that which may have
been a business error. unde the condi-
lions of the past. may prove the key to
success within the new environments of
another twelvemonth. And so the world
goes.
From a national standpoint. the Amer
lean people can look upon the unfold
ment of events with pride and satisfac-
ton. The prosperity which has wreathed
the country in the smiles of hope gives
no evidence of diminution with the ad-
vent of a new year. Great events have
been contributed to the crucible of his
tory. and momentous questions nav
been tried by fire. Our nation. through
conditions that were not of it's own
making, has been led to the threshold of
a new era of commercial and industrial
progress that promises to the people a
| greatness that was undreamed of in the
past.
The " of prosperity, to which care
ment has given the right of way, will be
! accorded a permanent home on the
American h~earthstone through the evo-
| luton of the Orient into new channels
of enterprise. The development Of our
Pacific coast line, already marvellous,
bids fair to outstrip the most %sanguine
dreams of the optimist. The western
ocean will become as busy a thorough
fare as the Atlantic is today, and Ameri-
can prosperity will echo around the
world. ,.. =..
The acquisition of the Philippines,
when measured by results, may not only
prove the greatest event in the history
of our nation, aside from the conclusions
of the civil war, but it may also-in en-
larging the sphere of American activity
prove to be the browning event Of the
century. No nation ever had a better
right to look down into the vistas of the
future with confidence than has the re-
public Of he United States today. It
is too early to attempt to measure the
effects of the events of the past year,
further than to note their trend and to
picture their outcome from the symp-
toms already observed. The signs of the
times point to an era of prosperity for
the American nation ~unequaled in the
history nf tho world r. Sc n nloI Nov,
Year for the household of Uncle Sam.
:
In the still wider activities of the world
there is little to brood over. Death has
harvested its usual crop of noted men
and women, and disasters by fire and
flood have claimed their own. The
European war cloud has gone through
it's usual performance of lowering close
to the ground, and the customary bluffs
hav been worked Off by nation upon
nation in the poker diplomacy of modern
times. War is in progress in South
Africa, which canno fail to have a.
marked effect upon the geography of the
dark continent. It's outcome will not
materially affect the commercial and in
dustrial conditions Of the world, hence
it's Importance rests chiefly upon the
position in which it will leave England
as a military power and a recognized
arbiter of national destiny. j
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As an historical event of general inn
p%ortance to the world, the war in South
Africa-as p%ortentious as it may appear
ranks of lesser Importance thar the
much-ridiculed peace congress at The