The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-01

race that also has a worldwide future cam
not possibly be attained for hundred
years, or even three or four-and, holding
ali these elemental facts in mind, the con-
clusion becomes so obvious that IL is al
most commonplace, that the twentieth CEN
tury will be American.
1.-THE twentieth century will be American.
American thought Will dominate II; Amer
lean progress will give il color and direc-
ton; American deeds make Ii illustrious.
Before the clock of the centuries strikes the
half hour in the hundred years now begin
ming, the American Republic viii be the
scught-for arbiter of the disputes of ma
lions, the justice of whose DEGREES every
people will admit, and whose power to en-
force them none will dare to resist. And
to me the Republic as an active dispenser
of international justice is picture more
desirable than the Republic as an IDLE,
egotistical example, posing before mankind
as a statue of do-nothing righteousness
Before the twentieth century is done
American inventiveness, American adapta-
bility, American administration, American
resourcefu lness, American organization,
American equality of law and American
impartial administration of equal laws
American civilization. in short-will have
done for the world what 1t has done Tor
the American continent. American COM
merce and American missions on every
shore; American teachers in all the human
wilderness of earth; American soldiers in
every quarter blest by our flag IN when
that social order which is the beginning
of our liberty needs to be established; the
ports of the world crowded with American
ships; and on every sea our colors omni-
present and omnipotent-this Will De the
fortune of the earth in the century which
is dawning now and which is ours.
1.-THE future, so far as the eye OF prophecy
can reach. is the age of the American;
and in that future there is hope because
there is opportunity for the young man
and every young woman who is child OF
the Republic. Who would deny that de-
veil To ~ close
futures doors? And who will say that
the present and the coming generations OF
Americans are not equal to such master
full destiny? Are we not the children of
our fathers? And through our veins and
through the veins of our children and OF
our childrens children will there not course
the blood of sires who were mighty in their
day-and not less mighty because now
their day is done?
There is new writing writ, and these
are the words of it: Sufficient unto the
day is the glory thereof. Let us, therefore,
honor the glory of the sun that is set, but
deny not the glory of the sun that shall
rise.
THE CHANGE.
Look at the man of the world at the
end of the eighteenth Gentry and look to-
night, as the nineteenth century is dying,
and behold the changes wrought. And yet
these changes on the map of the globe
and all those great destroyers of time and
space had been we'll mastered by the minds
OF men. Who then can fail to realize that
the twentieth century, with all agencies of
modern communication fully developed.
and with the American people taking to
the sea as the blood within their veins
made it inevitable they should do. is to be
the century of still greater changes in the
map of the world? 1t will not be two dec
AIDES before the American merchant from
his desk in New York, Chicago or San
Francisco will talk to his branch house in
Manila. Shanghai or HongKong by those
wonderful wires of audible speech. Let us
not forget that ten years ago the long
distance telephone was considered by the
wise a madmans folly; and that ten years
before that the telephone itself was re-
garded as a dreamer's fancy. In less than
two decades the time between Sandy Hook
and the Lizard will be three days and less.
Let us not forget the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse and the Deutchand, which conser-
vative engineers but yesterday declared
impossible creations; and then let us re-
member the day before yesterday when
an Atlantic voyage of ten days from land
to land thought to be the realization
of the fabulous. Bombay and Calcutta have
been transformed within the half century
from the very hives OF pestilence to the
strongest citidals of health in all plague
are being made by English discipline into
men and soldiers, and maybe, in the dis
tant future, into citizens perhaps; and the
desert of Pharos is, by the constructive
energy of the parent people from which
we sprang, being this day made fertile for
the seed and the husbandman, that the
millions who in the past have starved,
cursed God and died, may in the future
be filed, praise God and live. Go upon
the bund in Shanghai and you will see
buildings as modern as New Yorks and
streets as well peliced as those of Wash
ington. And now we read in the daily press
that even Picking is learning the blessed
rigor of discipline; that her foul streets
are being cleansed: that her indescribable
places are being filled or burned; and that
civilization, whose couriers are cleanliness
and law, is camping at her gates. And we
read, too, that the cleanest and best MAIN
tanned quarter OF that ancient capital is
the quarter in charge of the American
troops And in that item of the daily dis
patches we behold the beginnings of the
American twentieth century. In regenerat-
ed Manila we behold the beginnings of the
American century. In emancipated Hawaii
we behold the beginnings of the American
twentieth century. In Cuba redeemed we
behold the beginnings of the American
twentieth century.
CIVILIZATIONS HOLD.
civilization will never loose its hold ION
Shanghai: civilization will never depart
lIOIu t1OH5 -hOlS, Tire SdlcS VI ShluS Will
never again be closed against the methods
of modern man. The regeneration of the
world, physical as well as moral has be-
gun, and.revolutions never move backward.
This is as true of the revolutions of
thought, of commerce, of industry and of
the practical methods of daily life, as or
the revolutions of the blood In this tre-
mendous work the American people now are
tor But to do our part; to achieve the
most constructive work in the history of
the world to develop the highest, best
and noblest within us; to best bless the
entire family of man: in short, to realize
ourselves, the American people must have
this for their motto and highest lava
clean future and a free hand-a future
clean from serious treaty entanglemepts
a hand free from the shackles from yestcr-
days legal bubbles. Do not bind the hands
of the coming generations with narrow
constitutional interpretations. Give poster
ity the freedom Of its wisdom Think what
would have been our fate If the narrow
constructionists of two generations ago hal
fastened upon our wrists the manacles Of
their interpretations of the American Con-
stitution.
Give posterity clean future, Stretch
no treaty prohibitions across our tide of
time Clear the way for the coming race.
Give the children of to-day and the chill
dren yet unborn the liberty TO solve the
questions of their own day in their owl,
way. How awful is the egotism that would
fasten about the brow of future genera
tions the steel band of our little thought
We cannot foresee all the problems that