The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-24

| GU SS pTOpu6I WILL - oleWP GU Ah4'
agiaation. So ii one standing on the great
eminence of time, the beginning of the
twentieth century, should predict the fu
ture glory of the American republic, it
would b. only story half written or
picture dimly painted, with all the splen-
doris 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
if we are true to ourselves and our
heaven appointed destiny. When we look
| backward to the 4th of July, 1776, 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 condl-
tion then and now, we caa scarcely credit
the evidence of our own experience. The
progress we have made. the government
| we have built up, the nation we have Gre
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. A CEN
tury hence, if we are true to co0s stitutionai
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 hosaanahs 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 deliTerance 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. ASIA nation we have
reached crisis equally as important as
that which confronted the Israelites, and
the encouragement offered as IS the world
as our promised land where we are 10
plant the seeds of freedom and christian
ity and labor to fructify and enrich them.
until they shall grow up and the nations
shall lie down in peace under their SHADE.
The same power which brought the wan
derers at last out of the wilderness IS sus-
tanning US. aud if we are true to duty and
destiny it will bring Us into the promised
land of our hopes and rewards. Such
contemplation is Dewildering, and yet II
we read the signs Of the times correctly,
we are as a nationlmoving on to such
destiny.
The great events in the future OF our
republic can be predicted with some de-
gree of certainty. One Of the pre-enlnent
events will be 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 republi-
can United States and imonarchical Great
Britain, but there wilpbe unity OF pur-
pose which will link them together in the
bonds of common interest and race af-
fliation. With such, combination of
resources and power, fit will be possible to
disseminate throughout the earth the
spirit of liberty now wpermesting the entire
Anglo-Saxon race In time the prophecy
OF the last century that Europe would be-
come republican, or Cossack will be full
filed.
The Eastern question of to-day is the
baginning of the final struggle. With
union Of the English-speaking peoples the
despotism oDRassis will be destroyed,
and all the nations will be forced into the
crusade for 'libeTating mankind from the
blighting tyranny under which it has suf-
fered for centuries. What an enhancing
picture-the unity tof all the nations in
one common and patriotic purpose, to
secure universal human freedom and
through it to unite the race Of man IN
one national brotherhood. Let 1t be IN
derstood that insanyfuture alliance, either
implied or explicit, the United States is
the master of the situation. That this is
true Isl sevident to any business man, who
will consider fora moment the trade stu
alton of the world. All Of the nations Of
Europe, including Great Britain, have so
dense population, that every foot OF
area. if cultivated to its fullest extent,
would not produce su fhcient food to sup
port the people. The United States, upon
the other hand, produces vastly more
than it consumes. It controls the food Of
the world. and any retaliatory measures
BY foreign nations intended to curtail the
products of commerce or industry in the
United States could be efectuaUy stopped
by similar measures as to our own food
exports.
The.retaliatory measures now threaten
ed BY Russia will not be carried out for
this reason Russia made a bluff and
when the United States called the bluff.
Russia, instead of carrying cut its threat,
! placed the entire matter in the hands OF
the minister to the, United. States, and 1t
Is now a question of diplomacy, which il
solved so far as the threats of Russia are
! concerned. The time was when London
and Liverpool as .jobbing centers, practi-
cally controlled thetrade Of the world.
That trade has practically passed from
Great Britain to the United States. The
| balance Of trade in favor Of this country
during the past three years has been lit
tie over a billion and one-half dollars.
| Had the United States mot been debtor
country, this amount would have been
added to- the surplus gold in this country.
A billion dollars of this has been used in
| buying up American securities held
abroad until our railroads, which were
controlled by English capital, are now IN
American hands.
We have now purchased the control over
our own industries Notwithstanding the
fsct.that this caused the expectation Of
vast quantities of gold to- Europe, the oal-
! ance of trade has been so greatly In excess