The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-10
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 teresting paper contributed by John c. Elliott on the subject of Our Next Ice-Age." The most eminent scient- ists are agreed that in what is known as the Pleistocene Age almost one-half of the northern half of the earth was covered by an immense glacier or sheet of Ice of great thickness and solidity. They point out that many evidences of it's existence are to be seen in the Northern States of the Union and in British North America. They may dif- fer as to the causes which produced this condition. as they diner about the duration of the ice sheet and the pe- riod when 1t ceased to exist, and the cause of its disappearance. Amid all conflicting opinions as to cause and dur atiou they age pretty generally agreed that there was a glacial period,'' as 1t is called, and that in this country it extended over all of the northern tier of States of our Union. It Is calculated that not less than 2.0oo.00O square miles of Europe and 100000 Of North Amer lea were covered by this great glacier.
 But the fact that there was such a period is not so important as is the opinion of scientists that there will be time in the future. The deductions drawn by Mir. Elliot from opinions of eminent students Is that "the city of Cincinnati will mark the southernmost edge of the ice-sheet in America but the Southern States will lie in the grasp of an Arctic climate. London and New York, Berlin and St. Peters burg will be no more. The Irish ques- tfon ani other mistakes will be buried forever beneath an icy pail. sunny France will be a Siberia Knowing 10 summer, and Paris frozen solitude of snow-fl1led Streets.
 This is somewhat bad outlook for our fellow citizens up North, but 1t is coming. or the wise men are not as wise as they think. The one consola- ton is that the trouble is coming grad uaIly and many centuries will eiapse before we will be in danger It is surely comingf however. but we will | uOL BO lnNO IlfC dI aSOd tC SaS- tain the position of the learned men .who are predicting period when the iceman will be out of business in most parts of these United States and the coal men will have a cinch on human Iity.
 As to what must be done in the prem- Ises Mr. Ellicct sets forth his opinions in view of the probabilities--or certain
 ties predicted by the scholars. For example, he says;
 1 Obviously tue United States must | carve out refuge for her people in I South America a gaihst the time wher i they will be driven out of the North ern continentA by the irresistible ad- vance of the aH-effacing ice-sheet. Il l is devoutly to be wished that the Latin 1 republics will cheerfully acquiesce in | any scheme looking to their .incorpor- ation in a South American hegemony animated solely by North American In | stitutiens. 0therw wise-might must de- side. The benefieeht power and proved vitality of Anglo-Saxon laws, language and institutions, habits. traditions and 1 ideals must not be impaired by, fnocu- lations alien to their genius. It took centuries of travail by men and wonfen i to bring these to their present stage oi l perfection which we, their descendants 1 enjoy or abuse as the case may be. II I is not expedient for the safety of the l one. nor for the welfare of the world l in general, that either of the two | great branches of the Anglo-S -SaxoT
 family, or which is the same thing the two great peoples actuated solely 1 by the Anglo Saxon spirit, should bt | plotted from the map In the time oi 1 stress about to try all nations, 1t will | become more and more evident thai 1 each is the complement of the other l The continent of South America com | prises about 100000 square miles oi 1 surpassing wealth and most varied re- | sources. If unified and dominated by I one central, progressive sovereignty, sht l will rank as one of the two or three 1 mighty political units or empires into | which the human race will be resolved | under the approaching new dispensa' I ton.
 And so, having pointed out remedy | and a refuge for our own people, thu | writer goes on to show that England Germany and other countries of North
 ern Europe must provide for them
 selves refuge in south America, Soutf
 Africa, Australia or other warm coun,
 tries where the ice blanket will not bt 1 spread ever them. Altogether, 1t is af Interesting article, and while this gen
 eration Is not immediately affected those who come after as may get cold feet and noses.