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ed ~ prophet with distempered i'm.
aglnation. So II one standing on the great
eminence of time, the beginning Of the
twentieth century, should predict the fu.
tuRe glory Of the American republic, Il
would DO only a story hale written or
picture dimly painted, with all the splen.
dors OF color!lng left out. do not believe
that any mind can have even tho faintest
conception of what our nation will be and
will accomplish in the coming centuries
II we are true to ourselves and our
heaven appointed destiny. When we look
backward to the 4th Of July. 1778, and see
thirteen colonies struggling with the
most powerful government on tho earth
for independence, and consider the great
| odds against us, and contrast our condi-
tion then and now. we can scarcely credit
the evidence Of our own experience. The
progress we have made the government
| we have built up. the nation we have ore
! ated. all seem like fancies, and we are
really lost In amazement at the oontem-
platton. Today seventy-six millions Of
American freemen bow down at the altar
of liberty erected by our forefathers and
pour out their labations Of praise. A cen
tury hence, II we are true to constitutional
government and human liberty, two hun
dred millions will gather around the altar.
And as the centuries roll on thousands Of
millions will celebrate this anniversary,
and their hosannahs Of freedom will echo
and rs-eoho throughout the earth, and all
nations will be prepared to take up the
refrain. The day Of mans deliverance has
come, liberty aud christianity, now and
forever.
The promised land, flowing with milk
and honey, was the encouragement held
out to the Israelites In their desolate wan
derings in the Wilderness. Without this
they would have faltered and fallen by
the wayside and never accomplished the
divine purpose Of their dellverance from
Egyptian bondage. AS a nation wo have
reached crisis equally as important as
that which confronted the Israelites, and
the encouragement offered US Is the world
as our promised land, whore we are to
plant tho seeds Of freedom and christian
| ity and labor to fructify and enrich them,
until they shall grow up and the nations
shall lie d own in peace under their shade.
| The same power which brought the wan
| derers at last out Of the wilderness Is sus-
| taining US. and II we are true to duty and
destiny 1t will bring US into the promised
land Of our hopes and rewards. Such a
contemplation is Dewildcring, and yet II
we read the signs of the times correctly.
we are as q nation moving on to such q
| destiny.
The great events in the future of our
republic can be predicted with some do
gree of certainty. One Of this pre-eminent
events will be union of the English
speaking race, in which Anglo-Saxon
ideas Of liberty and christian civilization
will become predominant, and finally
control the politics. the policies and COM
merce of the world. There may not be
any political alliance between the republi-
can United States and monarchical Great
Britain, but there will be a unity Of pur-
pose which will link them together in the
bonds Of common interest and race af-
flliation. With such n combination Of
resources and power, 1t will be possible to
disseminate throughout tho earth the
spirit Of liberty now permeating the entire
Anglo-Saxon race. In time the prophecy
OF the last century that Europe would be-
come republican or Cossack will be full
fllod.
The Eastern question of today is the
beginning Of the final struggle. With a
union of tho English- speaking peoples the
despotism Of Russia will be destroyed,
and all the nations will be forced into the
| =. A.
blighting tyranny under which it has suf-
fered for centu ries. What IN entrancing
picture-the unity of all the nations In
ono common and patriotic purpose to
secure universal human freedom and
through it to unite the race of man In
ono national brotherhood. Let it be un.
derstood that in any future alliance, either
implied or explicit, the United States is
the master Of the situation. That this Is
true Is evident to any business man, who
will consider for a moment the trade stu.
alton Of the world. All of the nations OF
Europe, incluiing Great Britain have sc
densc a population, that every foot Of
aroa, II cultivated to it's fullest extent
would not produce su filcient food to sup
port tho people. The United States, upon
the other hand, produces vastly more
than it consumes. 1t controls tho food OF
the world, and any retaliatory measures
by foreign nations intended to curtail tho
products Of commerce or industry in the
United States could be effcctually stopped
by similar measures Ms to our own food
exports.
The rotaliatory measures now threaten.
cd by Russia will not be carried out for
this reason. Russia made bluff and
when tho United States called the bluff
Russia. instead of carrying out its threat
placed the entire matter In tho hands OF
the minister to the United States. and 1t
is now question of diplomacy, which is
solved so far as the threats of Russia are
concerned. The time was whom London
and Liverpool rs jobbing centers. practi
cally controlled the trade of the world.
That trade has practically passed from
Great Britaip to the United States The
balance of trade In favor Of this country
during the past three years has been lit
tie over q billion and one.half dollars
Had the United States not becn debtor
country, this amount would have been
added to tho surplus gold in this country
A billion dollars OF this has been used in
buying up American securities held
abroad until our railroads, which were
controlled by English capital, aro now In
| American hands.
We have now purchased the control over
our own industries. Notwithstanding the
fact that this caused the expectation OF
vast quantities Of gold to Europe, the bal
ance Of ii, dc has been so greatly In excess