The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-06-09


the great empire OF Rome. II was rot
death which came. but transformation.
Both Holland and Italy teach us that
races that fall may rise again.
Danger Of Race Suicide.
There are questions which we of the
great civilized nations are ever tempted TO
ask OF the future. IL our limo OF growth
drawing to nm end? Are we as nations
soon to come under the rule OF that great
law OF death. which is itself but part OF the
great law Of life? None can tell Foraes
that we can see and other forces that are
hidden or that can but dmly be apprc-
heudcd are NJ work all around us. both
for good ana for evil. The growth IN lux
ury. In love OF ease, IN taste for vapld
and frivolous excitement, IS both evident
and unhealthy, The most omnous Sign
Is the diminutiOn In the birth-rate. In the
rate Of natural increase. now to larger
or lessor degree shared BY most OF tho
civilized nations uf central and western
Europe, of America and Australia. n dim
mutton 50 great that II II continues foI the
nest century at the rate which has OBJ
tanned for the last . years. an the more
highly civilized pcopl" VIII nu stationary
or else have begun 10 Eo backward Ia
population while many uf 'Hnw will have
already gone yor% far backward
Their" Is much that .NrGI1 sIyc US con-
Germ for tho future I'.r there f. much
ALSO which should give Ue hpu" No m1n
is moro apt 60 b" uis'u,un than fh"
prophet Of evil ! believe with al my
Agart thHt a great future remains COR I..
hu' whether ~ docs or d.,E mot, uGr
duty &C. mot altered However the 1.t-
'ir may 50. TIC soldier war'Nv 90 tie
rlwn will with utmost yivur 1p DTS H..
'1iHl task. Hrd bear himself n- valiant
?" 100 defeat MS In Victory, Como what
WILL we hnl0ug To peoples who have not
yielded To tho craven fear 81 hr.nE great.
Tn the ugcs that have gone by. tho
great nations the nations that ltyo "N-
paui,l and that have played "a mighty
part In the world. have I'm the end
grown old and weakened and vanished.
but so have the nations whose only
thought wns 10 avoid All danger. MI ot-
fort who would risk nothing. and who
therefore gained nothing In tho end the
Same fate may oycrWhrlm all alike, but
the memory OF tho one typo purishcs with
II while the other lerHc8 its mark deep
on the history Of all the future OF man
kind
4 nation that seemingly dies may ha
born again, and even Though I'm tho
physical sense II die utterly. It may yet
hand down n history Of heroic achieve
mcnt and for all time to come may pro-
foundly influence the nations that arise IN
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