The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-07-10
ESTABLISHED 1914

ed as a prophet with distempered i'm
agination. So If one standing on the great
eminence of time, the beginning of the
twentieth century, should predict the fu-
ture glory of the American republic, 1t
would bs only story half written or q
picture dimly painted, with all the splen-
dors of coloring left out. do not believe
that any mind can have even the 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, 177e, and see
thirteen colonies struggling with the
most powerful government on the earth
for independence, and consider the great
odds against rs, 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 ere
ated, all seem like fancies, and we are
really lost in amazement at the contem-
plation. 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. CEN
tury hence, if 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 hosa1nahs Of freedom will echo
and re-echo 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 deliverance from
Egyptian bondage. AS nation we have
reached a crisis equally as important as
that which confronted the Israelites, and
t. :. encouragement offered US is the world
as orr promised land, where we are to
plant the seeds Of freedom and christian
ity and labor to fructify and enrich them,
until tney shall grow up and the nations
shall .!e down in peace under their shade.
The same power which brought the wan
derers at last out of the wilderness is sus-
tanning us. and If we are true to duty and
destin it will bring US into the promised
land of our hopes and rewards. Such
contemplation is pewildering, and yet II
We read the signs of the times correctly,
We are as a nation moving on to such q
destiny.
The great events in the future OF our
republic can be predicted with some de-
gree of certainty. One Of the pre-eminent
events will be a 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 republ1-
can United States and monarchical Great
Britain, but there will be unity OF pur-
lpose which will link them together in the
bonds of common interest and race al
filiation. With such combination OF
resources and power, it will be possible to
disseminate throughout the earth the
spirit of liberty now permeating the entire
|Anelo-Saxon race. In time the prophecy
of the last century that Europe would be-
come republ or Cossack will be full
filed.
The Eastern question Of to-day is the
beginning of the anal struggle. With
union of the English-speaking peoples the
despotism of Russia will be destroyed
and ali the nations will be forced into thu
crusade for hberating mankind from ths
blighting tyranny under which it has suf
fered for centuries. What an entrancine
picture-the unity of all the nations II
one common and patriotic purpose, *
secure universal human freedom ane
through it to unite the race of man II
J one national brotherhood. Let it be un
J derstood that in any future alliance, ethel
implied or explicit, the United States Ii
the master of the situation. That this Ii
J true Is evident to any business man, who
will consider for q moment the trade stu
alton of the world. All Of the nations o.
Europe, including Great Britain, have 81
dense a population, that every foot o.
area. If cultivated to its fullest extent
: would not produce su fficient food to sup
/ port the people. The United States, upor
! the other hand, produces vastly mor'
than it consumes. 1t controls the food o.
the world. and any retaliatory measures
by foreign nations intended to curtail the
, products of commerce or industry in th'
!. United States could be effectually stopped
, by similar measures as to our own foot
ex ,orts.
: The retaliatory measures now threaten
ed by Russia will not be carried out TO-
this reason. Russia made a bluff anc
when the United States called the bluff
Russia. instead of earring out its threat
placed the entire matter in the hands O.
: the minister to the United States, and i
Ia now q question of diplomacy, which il
solyed so far az the threats of Russia ar
concerned. The time was when Londor
and Liverpool as jobbing centers. practi
. cally controlled the trade of the world
: That trade has practically passed from
Great Britain to the United States. Th'
} balance Of trade in favor of this country
during the past three years has been lit
, tie over billion and one-half' dollars
, Had the United States not been debto
I country, this amount would have beer
llaa "a tho arrnlns cold In this country