The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-15
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nation. Sectional strife has been buried
forever beneath the trenches at San
tiago, where the sufferings OF the blue
We're anguish to the gray.
Our political history from 1865 TO
1885, it is useless to recount. II is
enough to say that during this period
time has swept the Revolution of 1916
down the dark stream that seaward
creeps.' An English speaking brother
hood is no longer an ---------- dream,
and the day when America shall become
the guardian of the nations no longer
a thousand years.
ITO our country all religious sects come
and all welcome. And this practice some
say is a menace to our republic, but re-
lying on the history of our grandsires and
their enlightened descendants. main
tain that forever, Professionalism shall De
our motto, and Professionalism shall be our
standard.
THE education of the people stands
re-eminent as the cause OF our develop
ment--the prime factor i'll the develop
ment of a government where every citi-
zen is a ruler, the ballot a sceptre, and
every tattered hat a kingly coronet.
During the last few years men have
walked up 10 the realization that we OF
this generation occupy the Gibraltar of
the age which commands the worlds flu
ture, and their gifts for the education OF
our boys and girls-boys and girls who
are to make the men and women of the
future have been more liberal than ever
before in the annals of man. Today we
have a university in every State De-
nominational and non-sectarian colleges
alike are welding a mighty influence,
and with the sound of the bells of the
public schools ringing from every hilltop.
there is just cause TO believe our nation
has noble destiny awaiting 1t.
Again our superiority lies in our COM
mercial characteristics. There is almost
nothing that the United States does not
possess except political purity, and moth
ing an American cannot do except rest.
Dotted over our vast country are thous-
ands Of towns and cities-the din of whose
factories never ceases, when the hurry
and hustle OF trade are in perpetual mo-
tion. Into our ports come the ships oil
every nation to pour out their offerings
upon the affairs of our commercial sane
tuarieS. The source of our wealth is not
the greed of gold but honest labor, in
telligenty applied TO rich natural re-
sources and its true incentive, an honora-
BILE determination on the part of liberty
loving men to cfvilize the world, and
truly as Emerson has said: America is
only another name for opportunity; it is
Gods final effort in behalf of the human
race
Two years ago and our responsible
ties were bounded by two great oceans,
but the cry of an oppressed people viler-
ating through the world met an heroic
response in the hearts of the American
people rejoicing that ii lay in their
power to carry the principles so clearly
cherished in the Land OF Liberty to a
people so long oppressed by the hand OF
tyranny. AS a result of our victory, Cuba
and che Philippines, with their miserable
conditions are ended. We have received
the honors, the burden is not ours TO
sEun.s No sooner had We accepted these
responsibilities than the calamity howl
er raised the cry of Imperialism. But
expansion is not Imperialism, and to use
the words Of our late President No inn
perial designs Turk in the American mind.
They are TO American sentiment,
thought and purpose 1t is the policy Of
our Government to expand 1t is and
ever has been the genius of the republic.
1t is one OF the characteristics OF the
Anglo-Saxon.
But with these new possessions have
come grave responsibilities. Already
destiny has summoned America to the
counsel board OF the nations, and her
mission is now plain, To proclaim liber-
ty throughout all the land One more
the statesman has seen his prophecy
overshadoWed. The star OF empire no
longer hovers over the embroidered
strands of our Western States, but
CLEANS fitfully above a Pacific Archipela-
go where, intermingled with Christianity,
il sheds its rays OF liberty over the broad
expanse of trackless ocean, carrying
civilization and life to dark and heather
worlds.
'Nopolean pointing to the Pyramids.
commanded his soldiers to remember
that from yonder heights forty centuries
look down on YOU But Edward Locke.
mourning not for vanquished ages, COM
brands Americana thus: Men OF this
generation from the pyramid top of OPP
portunity on which God has set us, we
look down on forty centuries We stretch
our hand into the future with the power
to move the destinies of unborn millions.
And therefore has kipling puts it:
mobOdru hlnmnoXa' rs -wie Olpu G. g
=" Go to your work and be strong, hailing
not in your ways.
Baking the end half for an instant OF
praise
Stand to your work and be wise, certain
OF sword and pen,
Who are neither children nor gods, but
men in q world of new
Truly the law of life is progression.
The watch words Of the American nation
are onward and upward and there is
no reason why we may not look confident
~ forward to the picture and assert that
through this nation all races shall be
blessed
''The responsibilities we are facing and
the achievements we expect TO complete
are UNNECESSARILY greater than those
that have crowned the success of our
experiment If our problems be mighty
they grow out of our might and have the
mighty to deal with them. This land is
already the radiant centre of Anglo
Saxon power, and the world Republic.
with Washington for its capital, is the
vision that grows brighter and brighter.
Ere long and our national hero, i'm
b,- for han no