The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-06
M'KINLEY AT EXPOSITION.
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(Continued from First Page.) the people, and recognizes the efficacy l or high quality and new prices to wifi their favor. The quest for trade is ar
 incentive to men of business to devise
 invent, improve and economize in the
 cost of production. Business life whether among ourselves or with other people, is ever a sharp struggle for suc- cess. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would
 be clinging to the clumsy and antiquat-
 ed processes of farming and manufac-
 ture, and the methods of business of
 long ago, and the twentieth would be no
 further advanced than the eighteenth
 century. But though commercial com-
 petitors we are, commercial enemies we
 must not be-
 The Pan-American exposition has
 done it's work thoroughly, presenting in
 it's exhibits evidences of the highest
 skill and Illustrating the progress of the
 human family in the western hemis-
 phere. This portion of the earth has
 no cause for humiliation for the part
 it has performed in the march of civili-
 zation. It has not accomplished every
 thing; far from it. It has simply done
 it's best, and without vanity or boast fitness, and recognizing the manifold
 achievements of others, it invites the
 friendly rivalry of all the powers in the
 peaceful pursuits of trade and com
 merce, and will cooperate with all in
 advancing the highest and best inter- ests of humanity. The wisdom and en-
 ergy of all the nations are none too great for the worlds work. The suc- cess of art, science industry and inven- tion is an international asset and a common glory.
 Isolation No Longer Possible.
 After all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern in- ventions have brought into closer rela- tion widely separated peoples and made them better acquainted. Geographic and political divisions will continue to exist, but distances have been effaced Swift ships and fast trains are becom- ing cosmopolitan. They invade fields which a few years ago were impenetra- ble. The worlds products are exchang- ed as never before, and with increasing facilities come. increas- ing knowledge and larger trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical precision by supply and demand. The worlds selling prices are regulated by market and crop reports. We travel greater distances in a shorter space of time and with more ease than was ever dreamed of by the fathers. Isolation is no long J i,,, portant news is read, though in differ snt languages, the same day in all The telegraph keeps us advised of what is occurring every where, and the press foreshadows, with l more or less accuracy, the plans and | purposes of the nations. Market prices | If products and of securities are hourly | snoWn in every commercial mart, and | he investments of the people extend | beyond their own national boundaries nto the remotest parts of the earth. Vast transactions are conducted and exchanges are made by he tick of the cable Every event of [ interest is immediately bulletined, The uick gathering and transmission of ] lews, like rapid transit, are of recent rigin, and are only made possible by he genius of the inventor and the cour- ge of the investor.
 It took a special messenger of the overnment, with every facility known t the time for rapid travel, nineteen avs to go from the city of Washington 0 New Orleans with message to Gen. ral Jackson that the war with Eng and had ceased and treaty of peace ad been signed. How different now. Ve reached General Miles in Porto Ri- 0 by cable, and he was able through he military telegraph to stop his army n the firing line with the message that he United States and Spain had signed
 protocol suspending hostilities. We new almost instantly of the first shots red at Santiago; and the subsequent of the Spanish forces was nown at Washington within less than n hour of its consummatio The first nip of Cervera's fleet had hardly merged from that historic harbor when le fact was flashed to our capital, and le swift destruction that followed was immediately through the onderful medium of telegraphy. So are, we to safe and easy with distant lands that s temporary interruption even in or mary times results in loss and incon- enience. We shall never forget the . ays of anxious waiting and awful sus- ense when no information was per- l fitted to be sent from Pekin, and the ( plomatic represents lives of the na- ( ons in China, cut off from all commu- cation, inside and outside of the wall ( capital were surrounded by an an- { y and misguided mob that threaten ] their lives; nor the joy that thrilled [ e world when a single message from c