Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09

no dissecting without his consent. ne
dishes out all the supplies.
our commerce is going everywhere
over all seas and into all ports. The
streets of London are lighted with gas
from Alabama coal. SO that we are
actually carrying Goals to Newcastle
The financial center of the world
has been transferred from London to
New York and the political center from
Winds ,r Castle to the White House;
and today we have voice in the solu-
ton Of rational problems and IN the
adjustment of spheres of International
influence and control.
SO YOU see we are expanded ana II
is too late to fight against it. The ma
tons of the Earth are all strung IN one
telegraph wire; the antipodes OF the
Earth arc only the opposite sides OF
narrow street. We know in the mora
ing about Europe what Europe only
knows in the afternoon about itSclt. we
are eEtaugled with the ends IF the
Earth. commercially. politically and re-
Igicusly What concerns England,
France, Germany, Italy. Belgium, Aus
tria. Russia, China, japan or any other
nation concerns us. We are bound by
ties of ccnsanguinity; "Our lines have
gone out through all the Earth" and
we dare not shirk our responsibility or
be careless in the hour of destiny.
What awaits us we know not but We
do know that the descendants of Wash
lnston and Jefferson, Lincoln and
Grant. Cleveland and Mckinley are not
afraid to follow in the wake of their
craftsmanship, guided by the Constltu
ton and the Flag. our "Cloud by day
and pillar of fire by night"
Great have been our commercial
achievements in the past, but the fu
ture finds no measurement in the past
Yesterday the Atlantic was the solitary
field of our commercial greatness. but
tomorrow the Pacific shall whitcn with
the sails of an eastern commerce, the
statistical story of which will be the
pride and glory of future years.
Manila is the strategetic point Of this
new era o; CONNIE rcial conquest. When
China aWakens from the slunIber of
forty centuries and calls for the uten-
sis and appliances of modern civiIiza-
tion. tner through our Pacific occuran-
cy Of the Philippines. we shall he on
such intimate and friendly terms with
shall be the opportunity to supply the
vast demand which we shall have done
50 much to create; and when the two
civililati tons. separated on the plains of
Asia four thousand years ago. shall
clasp hands across the Pacific anC; the
keynote of human brotherhood enCi:-
cling The clobe. is sounded then the
story of American expansion and tn,
achievements of American statesman
ship will be recited as the secret of our
Influence among the wondering nations
Of the Forth.
That will be the Golden age of Amer
lean commerce and civilizat ton an ag.s
big with the commercial fruit of the
Reciprocity policy of James G. Blaine
and lustrous with the jewels of civ
'hHation. enlarged. expanded and en-
throned through the wisdom. patriot
ism and StateScraft of Mckinley, and
Hay, Roosevelt and Taft.
blessed twice blessed the Roman
Who saw Rome's brightest day,
Who saw the long victorious pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way
And through the believing Forum.
ANA round the suppliannts
Up to the everlasting haunts Of Capitol
But thousand times more blessed
the citizens of this favored land who
snail behold the fruition Of those.
a. cams and hopes, which are certain of
the age when the des-
pntism of greed is dethroned and the
rule OF gold is supplanted by the Golden
Rule; when suspicion. selfishness, aver
ify CHI
tsty, Hope and Love shall become the
guardian angels of peace and prosper
ltN' when person and property. life and
nhert% stall be inviolate; when capital
ana Iab"r snail walk hand in hand
through field ana forest and factory:
"hen the scales of justice shall stand
between want and wealth, weakness
and strength and guarantee the simnle
rights of all and when the freeman of
this great Republic shall stand he.
meath the Sheltering arches of a temrIe
OF government. round which shall flow
the river of abundance, from which
shall go forth streams for 'the heaIin.,
of the nations" ami above which shall
float in stainless beauty the Flag We
love and adore.-a flag in the omn1c
in'"s Ut which shall be written. "Iyon-
est BUSINESS" Honest Money" "Hon-
EST Politics" Honest Principles" and
Honest Men"
MY friends. with this vision splendid
9r'sing across the near horizon we must
not falter nor fail in the discharge of
our political duty; but remembering
the words of William the Silent
Events are the stepping stones If
God,' let US keep in league with events