The St. Louis Republic., 1902-06-15

! loosei When one great wave subsidized an
| other followed II was ten minutes before
! order was restored. while CASTOR stood
/ calmly surveying the storm.
Just before him sat General Worth pale
and trembling with excitement. The au-
! dacity of those resolutions had swept him
| for moment off his feet and back into the
| far-of years of his own daring young man
| hood. He could not heip admirng this
! challenge Of the modern world to stand at
I the bar of elemental manhood and make
good its right 10 existence. He was about
TO summon his messengers and rally his
1ieutenants when CASTOR began TO speak
and his first v. ds chained his attention.
While the tu!..IIt raised by his resolutions
was in progress he lifted his eye carelessly
toward the gallery, and there just above
him, where * curved toward the platform,
sat his beautiful secret bride! His heart
leaped. Her face aAame with emo
tlon, her eyes flashing with love and pride.
She slyly touched with her lips the tip of
her finger and blew 4 kiss across the inter
vening space He smiled into her soul a
look OF gratitude, and. with every nerve
strung TO its highest tension, resumed his
place by the speakers stand. When the
tumult died away he began speech that
fixed the history Of a State for thousand
years
His resolutions had wrought the crowd to
the highest pitch OF excitement and mis-
words, clear, penetrating and deliberate,
thrilled his hearers with electrical power
Gentlemen" he said. and the slightest
whisper was hushed. THE history of man
is a series OF great pulse-beats, whose food
overwhelms his future and fixes its life
Like the damned torrent on a mountain
side. II breaks the conservatism that holds
II stagnaut for generations and floods the
world with its sweep. Theories, creeds and
Institutions hsllOwed by age are cast as
rubbish on the SCARED hills that mark its
course. The old world is buried beneath its
sands and a new one appears. A peasant
has taken his seat on the throne of a King
and Kings are in exile.
1.-The Anglo-Saxon is entering the new
century with the imperial crown of the
ages on his brow. and he greets this new
era and glories in its manhood. He Joins
his voice In the cheers of triumph which
are ushering in scepter Of the infinite in his
hands.
THE Old South fought against the stars
in their courses-the resistiess TIDE Of the
rising consciousness OF Nationality and
World-Mission- The young S5uth this all
conquering Saxon as the ruler of the world.
Our old men dreamed OF local supremacy.
We dream OF the conquest Of The globe
Threads of steel have knit State to stare
Steam and electricity have silently trans
formed the face of the earth anaihIlated
time and space ana swept the ocean oar
riers from teh path OF man. The black
steam shuttles Of commerce have woven
continent TO continent. There is no more
sea
We believe that God has raised up our
race. as ne ordained Israel of old. in ;hIs
wUrld-crisis to establish and maintain for
weaker races. as trust fo- civilization, the
principles Of civil and religious liberty and
the forms Of Constitutional GOvernms mt
In thin our Of crisis our flag mas Jeen
raised over ten millions of semthasbaric
black men in the foulsst slave pen Jc the
Orient. Shall we haul 1t down and sIo%
these people TO l. hack into the su.f CT
shrall We do for thn-n what We they cannot
do for themselves. establish the forms Of
civic order and take cur places as .ead,rs
of the forces Of progress Or shall We re-
peat the farce of %. reverse the o-dsr Of