The Globe-republican., 1904-08-25
THURSDAY, AUGUST rs, 1904.
FROM JOE WATERS.

FROM JOE WATERS.
The following Is taken from J. G.
Waters speech delivered IN Dodge City
recently at the reunion:
70 down +! !! s., Ieq! VI. and Az Inspect the
Filipino settlement, T'hs lrosotes and
Nsgtitos there may just now know more
about eating boiled dog than they do Of
Constitutional Llbertyi but the yeast b..:s
been put In their Loaf, ibid they have the
opportunity 10 leatn the goodness and
greatness that possess this land, that
crowns each citizen king aud regulates
him by education and law. We will In.
prove the Flliplnos more and sooner than
we will the directory Of Standard OIL.
The road Is short in this magnificent
paradise from breech cloths to decently
clothed, high minded citizenship. We
have no fear Of mendicants; The peril here
10, and always will be, the power that
wealth uses for unlawful purposes and
ends.
BY tile wisdom Of Jefferson we have
come to the crest Of the road that looks
down the long divide. Before us 10 an
illimitable prospect Of Astounding har-
vests, long peace, happy homes, progress,
civilization and brotherhood. A sweep
Of empire beyond the avarioe Of Napolson
or even the prophetic sense Of Jefferson.
Visit St. Louis and read the epitomized
story Of what we ore. See the puppet
cascades leap down their bridled path;
exa nine the work Of human hands; 6oat
on Its logoons, shut your eyes and listen
to the American made gondolier feather
bis blade, and hear 1t drip and then
dream Of Venice, Of Its thousand years
Of empire.
Turn your eye to Ito buttresssd walls,
Its stately columns, Its pinnacles, its
spires, Its domes, Its archltrayes. 10 Ito
marbles, and remember that America 10
cultivatlng the eyes Of Its children to see
In every stone Of the Republics quarrles
as superb images as they. lisa riot Of
education there. Ignorance has no bust
ness togo though Its turnstlles, and II 1t
seeks entrance, lot 1t 60 In 40 an
exhibit. Go down there and watch the
play Of electricity, -that cornicss Its
caves with lines Of lights and films the
somber draperies Of night with phos.
phorscent lace spun by a dynamo. Lis
ten to all the assailing melodies here and
there and far away, that beat and blow
and thunder and clarion and trumpet by
day the greatness Of the United States;
let all the harnessed harmonies Of the
night rush In and possess you; and then,
with your feet wearled and your eyes
aching, go to your bed, shut your eyes
and let slumber break off your admiration
and love for this great land Of ours, ye
men and women of this great Nation!
An hundred years from now, the Past
great as 1t has been, cannot push you to
toe the line Of lite reality. 1t Is beyond
our conjecture. We will have, three
hundred millions Of people, and but one
flag. II there Is more than one, there
will be an hundred. Congress will sx-
pend annually five billions Of dollars.
We will have an hundred states. Cuba,
Porto Rico, Arizona, New Mexico.
Hawaii, Luzon, Oklahoma, Indian
Country, Alaska, and here my geography
and prophetic vision stop short. There
may not be any Carnagie libraries or
Chicago Universities, Is I fondly hope,
but the public schools will be our meat
and drink as they are now. We will have
aNational Guard Of forty millions, with
no use for single musket, There will
be ten millions Of high school scholars
and fifty millions OF scholars In our pub.
Ito schools. There will be ten millions
Of young men and ten millions Of young
women, read! for strstagem, spoils and
marriage. The trail Of our steamers
smoke will cloud the travelled highways
ofall the seasi The worlds ports will be
our harbor. We will have q civilization
that shall starve ayerlce Into phllan-
thropy and coerce greed into brother.
hood. And five are to be good and
great hereafter, II this government 10 to
feel Ito way through the wreckage Of
other republics and survive, we must
have good citizenship, that has no
bosdle ID II, no pursuit Of politics as an
industry Or livelihood and which shall
subordinate riches to merit,
n Ysf $500.