Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17
AMERICAS DESTINY
DIR. UPDikE TALKS OF TWENTi-
ETH CENTURY.
OUR NATION TO BE SUPREME
To Support 1000 Millions of People
Wonderful Advancement in Science
and Observation-Disclosures Develop.
ment in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lam
guage to be Universally Used.

Scarcely seat was unoccupied in
the Congregational church Sunday
morning when DIR. Updike began his
| discourse on The Twentieth Century
| At the beginning of this new era, he
felt that we can predict with some
man is not limited altogether to the
present. AS we look over the past and
reproduce it's experiences we receive
much benefit therefrom, and careful
observer of the moral and intellectual
| forces, who is also familiar with the
history of the past, can look forward
to the future with confidence. The
great statesman is the one who knows
what ought to be and what will be,
and who can marshal his forces so as
| to produce these things. The study of
history is an aid as to what the result
of these forces will be in 100 years to
come, and we study it better now than
formerly and can predict with much
more certainty. Legitimate desire is
kind of prophecy of what is to be.
this leads to impulse, impulse to ten
dency, tendency to habit, habit to
character and from character we reap
destiny.
The circumstances that determine
what kind of civilization we will have
in politics, temperance and in the
industrial world are shaped largely by
desire, and this must be paramount or
the end sought will not come. The
unrest that is prevalent today is de-
sire, and it will be the occasion of a
better civilization than ever before.
Inventions spring up according to
our needs, and one discovery leads to
many others. In the first rs years of
the past century there were 10000 in
ventions, but in the last % years the
number had increased to 100000. The
possibilities of science are just dawn
ing for one eminent scientist now be-
lieves that the inhabitants of some
other planet are trying to commune
cate with us. Another says that with
the aid of electricity we will soon be
able to change the coal that is in the
mines into gas, and then condense the
gas for use where wanted.
| In speaking of the wonders of the
| telephone DR.. Updike said that sci
entific men were now claiming that
the time is not far distant when we
can not only speak with man that is
loco miles away, but that we can see
him as well as recognize his voice, for
as the sound distance has been length
ened, just so can the sight distance be
increased. 1t will soon be possible to
send current of electricity through
the heart of mountains or
the earth, and determine the
message without the aid of wires. AS
we enlarge the capacity of man we al
so increase the desire.
There is practically no limit to the
resources of this country of ours and
few of us understand it's immensity.
1t would make Is kingdoms like that
of Spain, and 81 like Italy. England
and Wales could be spread out ON our
surface 60 times over. The five great
est nations of the earth. including also
Spain, Portugal, Switzerland. Den
mark and Greece, could be laid down
three times west of the Hudson river
before the map of this country would
be covered There are only three
states west of the Hudson river that
are not larger than Spain and one can
ride as far as from New Orleans to
Chicago in a straight line through
Texas. We have three million square
miles of territory not including Alas
ka. and only so millions of people.
Yet China. with less than half the ter
ritory, sustains a population of 400
millions.
This country is destined, said DR.,
Updike, to support 1000 millions of
people and we must plan wisely for it.
Our greatest city will be on the Pacific
coast and our population will reach
800 millions before the end of the
twentieth century.
In agriculture, we have not exhaust
ed the resources of one foot of soil. and
while it now requires from 40 to 100
acres of land to support one family,
science tells us that the time will
come when il will be possible to sus
tain family from 20 square yards of
soil. and 240 men can be fed from one
acre of ground. The time is coming
when our teeming millions will be
thus fed.
Russia's poncy of colonization by
force. DIR. Updike declared to be for
political and strategic purposes. She
already controls one half of the Pacific
coast, and millions of her subjects
crouch in the burrows and eat the
crusts that sustain life. Out of her
100 millions of people SO millions are
unable to read or write. The govern
ment is giving them lands, loaning
money to them without interest, and
furnishing farm implements at cost to
families who locate along the great 81.
berian railroads. And political rea-
SOUS are behind il all.
China is awakening and now has
some miles of railroad. the telegraph
will soon follow and the time is not
far distant when the followers of Con-
fucius will be able to read the philoso-
ply Of their saint under electric lights.