The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-16

at a fabulous cost. The New York Central railroad changes it's terminals l in the heart of the greatest city on the continent, where land is worth it's cov- ering in gold, and substitutes eleetrici- ty for steam as a motive power, and there is simple announcement of its plans in the daily press. There are men here who remember when our own road was small and insignificant, but 1t has gone on buying and leasing lines till it has become a vast trunk system;
 after spending millions in Boston, oth- CT millions in Bridgeport and still other millions all along the line, it coolly pur- chases five hundred miles of trackage to give it entrance to the anthracite re-
 zion and the great lakes, and all this
 causes comment, but no surprise and
 does not disturb values or dividends.
 One can only comprehend the immense figures involved in these operations
 when he remembers that, of the four hundred billion dollars of the worlds wealth, the United States holds a full < quarter!
 Consider some of the facts. One need
 not go very far back; take the year
 1850, We then had thirty-two states
 with 25,0O0,000 people. 'part slaves and ! part free;" now we have forty-five l states with S0,o00OO0 freemen. Take
 the growth in the post office depart
 ment; last year the Chicago office alone collected more revenues by nearly a ] million dollars than the whole depart ment collected in 1860 Think of the
 railroads. In 1850 we had 9,021 miles in
 operation. In 1903 we had 207, ,6O9 miles. ! and only 229 miles went under receiver
 ships and $50 miles were sold under foreclosure. That is test of financial
 strength. Here is another. In 1850 ] there were 251, S54 depositors in the say .l ings banks, with s4S, 4Sl, ,1SO of deposits.
 in 1903 there were 7,SO5, ,228 depositors
 with S2,9S5,2O4,S45 to their creIit. And
 all these years we have been erectine
 splendid national, state and municipal { buildings, churches. schools, colleges.
 hospitals and libraries, we have been 8 nghting and conquering illiteracy, and making stupendous advances in art I science, literature, invention and dis. covery The man who is not a proud ana grateful patriot must have unsee- Ing eyes, a calloused mind, and a heart of stone. Out upon the Anglomaniacs < and other lunatics who affect to de- spise America and adopt foreign man
 ners and an English accent! There is no so sure and speedy cure for an at. { tack of Anglophobia or Gaulonitis as q few weeks of open-eyed travel about the country or a few hours study of our statistics. If the dolorous peopla who are fretting the air with their carp. I ing criticisms and pessimistic com- plainings would devote a little time to such travel and study they would get a new light and a better spirit.
 ] It has been my fortune just now to take q short trip through some of the great middle-western states. As I saw the busy cities, with splendid public and private buildings, the gigantic 1 manufacturing plants, and the evil dences of prosperity, I was amazed at the development. As I rode through miles of rich, black soil without a stone through miles of cornfields, and other miles of other grains, and noted the still sparse population thought Uncle Sam is still rich enough to give us all farm" No state has a finer exhibit in the exposition than Missouri l and Missouri boasts that she can raise anything that is grown anywhere in the United States, while under her sol are mineral deposits sufficient to mako < the country rich. But as I stood in these exhibits, and remembered the bar ren, rocky New England hillsides, the most joyous thought was that, the mid- { dle west owes all it's progress and pros perity to eastern pioneers, and school teachers and missionaries. The middle west Is rich, strong, prosperous, she only needs to recognize her obligations and give as she has received and she will become the New England of the future. Her lands were opened and subdued by eastern pioneers, her schools were founded and maintained by eastern money, her religious insti- I tutions were established by eastern mis- sionaries; let her now join the east in carrying that higher development of our people which shall make us in all things the foremost nation of the world.
 1 15 put aWHdL OA lHS aLuIuTS. we stTe IO be the great missionary nation of the l world, not only by the proclamation of l Christian doctrines, but of all those l truths and precepts of life which devel- op manhood and enrich social and pos l litical conditions. We are to do this by an active propaganda, but more by I the example of our own achievements. l Already we have outgrown the methods of the fathers, but we shall never out- grow their principles; those principles were missionary and aggressive and l had behind them a solemn, ceaseless sense of obligation. Part Of our miss l sion is being accomplished in that mar yelous process of reception and assimil- 1 ation of all nationalities, which is the I wonder of the age, and the greatest I missionary and civilizing operation of all ages. Let me give you some testi- monies. Tn 8 recent address at Pitts burg, MT. John Morley said. ''The per- l seyering absorption and incorporation l of all this ceaseless torrent of hetero- I geneous clements into one united, sta I ble, industrious and pacific state is an achievement that neither the Roman nor the Roman church, neither Byzan- l tine empire nor Russian, nor Charles I the Great, nor Charles the Fifth, nor