The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-29

rated by some OF the great railroad
companies Blessed forever be the
name Of the nan who establishes
abiding peace and exact justice be-
tween labor and capital. which should
be not enemies but friends.
| IL in this century u aggregate
wealth increases al the rate O. the
| nineteenth, It will amount % eight
| srillion, five hundred billion dollars
| for the comprehension Of which STU
| penduous sum the mathematical powers
| of the human mind are utterly IN
! equal.
In 1880 we imported almost every
| thing we used-even bricks-vhich
could not be produced by farmers.
| Now we are competing for every spe-
| dies Of trade known among men in
every courty under heaven Within
the last few years w have achieved
at a prft the performance of car
rying Goals TO Newcastle and the ex-
pectarson is not too fanciful for en-
t~ertainment that before the end Of the
century America will be the cont
msrdaI mistress of the world. Free
! ship would give US that proud Z
profitable position in the next twenty
years.
Then will be realized the gorgeous
dream of a great poet when he said:
For 1 dip into the future, far as hu-
man eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, n all the
wonder that would be:
| saw the heavens filled with commerce,
argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight. dropping
down with costly bales
In 1900 our territory was circun-
scribed by the Atlantic on the easl
the Mississippi on the west the Great
Lakes on the north and the Floridas
on the south. Now it extends from
the sunrise side of Porto Rico on the
south TO the frozen ocean on the
north for we are destined to own ev-
cry foot Of the British North Ameri-
can possessions in less than fifty years
In 1900 we numbered sixteen States.
Now we have forty-fve. A century
hence we will number ffty-odd even
if we do not permanently the
Philippines. Should we do prepos-
ferrous thing-which God forbid!-We
will have 1850 or 1850 " 1850 States,
owing to whether there are l.ooo, or
1000 or $500 of those islands One OF
1 I1O ulSC11yluS dAOu41liCo VI toN piSS
emit situation is that no man can
guess except by accident within 500
of then number Of those islands or with
whom we are endeavoring to asslml-
late-on the ana cOnda plan.
Truth to tell. if no antidoue is dis
covered for our omniverous appetlte
for land and people, long before TINS
Young century is old we Will be IN the
condition of the Observation-Disclosures
drunk with both wine and victory, ~
wept because there We're no more
; worlds to conquer. May we nave :
happier end than this!
A FEEBLE FOLK IN 1900.
In 1900 we were a feeble folk;
fourth-rate power-insignifcant in th'
worlds plans and calculations No"
we stand in the front rank of nation.
| and there is not a sovereign or pre-
mier in Europe who is not lying aWak'
I OF nights inducing insomnia by pes
l ter;ng his brain to discover what w
l will conclude to do next A centur.
hence, America will be easily first an'
;. other nations scrambling among them
] selves for second place. Uncle san
has taken the center of 4 world
= stage and for veal or woe shall hoit
j it till the earth shall perish as a scroii
2 Parenthetically, | wish to remarl
that those hilarious and palpitatln;
: patriots who go about asseveratln'
5 that the Spanish war made us a Worl'
Z power. are precisely one hundred AM
j three years behind the times'for we be
e came a world power on April 80, loo5
when Thomas jefferson bought from
e Napoleon for a. song the Loulslan
Territorv-which was the creates
real estate transaction proposed olnc
r the devil took the Sacior to the 10
e of a high mountain and offered I'll
the dominion of the world to fall dow
and worship. him
: GROWTH IN LITERATURE.
h Tn 3 O we had no; literature worth
of the name. Easily within the men
orv of men now living it was sneel
inglv said: Who reads an America
book" Within the last tWenty-nV
N wears there have. been sold in Eurol
=, more COPIES Of General Grants NJ
moirs. of Jefferson Davis RIse an
" Fall of the C~onfedeTacy, n {
BlaineTs Twenty Years OF Congre:
than of n current historical WORK
h an European. Mark Twain, ArIena'
Ward, Bret Harte, Longfellow, 70
j. Hawthorne, Cooper and Emerson ma
become English classics
All of our leading magazines al
II The New York Herald publish Eur
pean editions for the special deiect'
ton of Johnnie Bull n the Partisan
= (which facts very satisfactorily al
- swer the question: Who :
:, , American book?"
n It is not too much to hope tnal U
~ fore the t~wenty-hrst century Is US
in cred in, Boston. New York, Wasnln
g Ton. Philadelphia, Baltimore or
~ LOUIS will by common consent oe r
carded as the literary center OF II
Sc world.
lie Tn his most valuable and renar
able book, Buckle avs
,r a condition precedent TO phiiosopn
i research and literary excellence, al
~1o+od uroalth 10 q condition ORE