The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-10
If our national aspirations and opportuu.

Our land 70 the most favored of earth.
We have diversity of soil and climate
unequalled. Our diversity of production
is marvellous. Our versatility of scien-
tlhc and inventive son;us Is the wonder of
the world. We are able not only to feed
our millions OF population bat the hungry
OF all nations. We can ciothe the hun
dreds of millions of people in the Orient
Our wealth is fabulous. With all these
advantages can we afford to shut up our
selves In "pent up Utica" and allow the
very redundance of our products to make
us poorS No other nation ever had the
grand commercial opportunities we enjoy.
Our harvests make our fields smile with
JOY and loudly call us to reap and enjoy
rich rewards by supplying other nations
and still have an abundance left. AS
return of gratitude to the Ruler OF ma
lions for our unparalleled prosperity and
advantages. it is our national duty to
grow, expand, aud go forth to contest
with other nations for commercial suprem.
acy.
Nations like individuals must be inter
dependent. In the nast the nations nave
ignored this doctrine, and have destroved
each other In their strife for dominion and
supremacy. 1t was never intended in tho
great plans Of Omniscience that any ma
ton can exist without being blessing or
curse to others. This idea of interdepcn.
dence In the last half century seems to
have become the settled conviction of all
the nations. The recent troubles in China
made all the great civilized powers neigh
bors. 1t brought them in unison for their
own betterment and the welfare of
heather China. Why then criticize our
President for the attitude of the United
States in this Chinese complication and
for acting In concert with the other ma
ttons as neiRhbor? It was one of her
national obligations as we'll &c 9 great op-
portunity to exemplify her readiness to
help and to bless all other nations.
For 1900 years the human race has been
struggling to obey the divine command.
"Go ye into all the world and preach the
gospel" But little progress was made
for centuries upon centuries. Seas of
blood have been shed in this evangelical
work. The progress has been slow, but
the fire has been kept dimly burning upon
the sacred altar, 1t was left to the mys.
terious christian influence Of the nine
teenth century. when the human mind
was liberated, Sc commence anew this pos.
pei work. and it's light has blazed in every
land, and the bible has been published in
every tongue. We are on the eve OF a
new christian era in the world. Our na-
ton with its free government and its ag-
orr al WI nj hri nv g.
tion to march forward and convert the
world. With the isles of the Pacific in our
possession, with the confidence of the
millions of heathens in the East, and with
our wealth and commerce, and Anglo
Saxon love Of liberty, we can raise the
banner of the cross and accomplish the
heaven designed work Of having the Cos
pei preachsd to every creature.
Our republican government. with these
mighty potentialities for progress. civili-
cation and human freedom. ia we'll fitted
to challenge the admiration of the world.
and to scatter everywhere the blessings of
m~n's liberty. Standing as the United
States does today, as the largest export.
ing nation, the wealthiest and most re-
eourcefui nation, they can exercise con.
trolling influence in the affairs of the
world, and ultimately become dominant
in them. Their political institutions have
given them this prominence, and il the
people wisely use all the opportunities of
the present. they will become the great
factor in the worlds future progress and
FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
II we patrioticalty utilize our present
opportunities and fulfil all Of our national
obligations. no one can speculate too ro-
about our future as q nation.
For one to have looked forward at the
Of Rome, and predicted all the
glories Of the Roman empire when In the
zenith Of its splendors, he would have been
hailed as dreamer and his prophecies az
fairy tales. For one to have stood on the
barren shores of Britain when Cesar
landed there with his legions and por-
trayed in story the glorious Culture of the
British empire. he would have been mock
ID as a prophet with a distempered i'm.
'glnation. So If one standing on the great
'minence OF time, the beginning of tho
twentieth century. should predict the fu-
would be- only story half written or a
picture dimly painted. with all the spien-
lore OF ooioring left out. do not believe
hat any mind can have even the fa:c.ss:
of what our nation will be and
Will accomplish in the coming centuries,
II we arc true to ourselves and our
leaven pointed'destiny. When we look
to the Ath of July, 1776, and see
thirteen colonies struggling with the
most powerful government on tho earth
or independence, and consider the great
odds against ns. and contrast our condi-
ion then and now. we can scarcely credit
'he evidence of our own experience. The
progress we have made. the government
We have built up. the nation we have cre-
tied. all seem like fancies, and we are
'eally lost in amusement at the contem-
'lation. Today sevcnty-six millions of
American freemen bow down at the altar
II liberty erected by our forefathers and
'our out their labations of praise. A CEN
ury hence, if we are true to constitutional