Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-21

| lantic seaboard all will share in the
great forward movement of industry and
commerce that will result and it is prob
able that the coming thirteen years will
thirteen.
Wireless electricity. opening the door
10 realm of thousand possible wonders.
has been taken from the land of fancy
and placed in the kingdom Of fact The
hy1ng machine thirteen years ago was
only dream today a census of the
people who have not seen one would be
interesting by reason of its small pro-
portions The submarine boat was then
non-existng thing; the automobile had
progressed but little beyond the realm of
toyland; philanthropy was comparativelv
In its youth. as compa red with the present
day The Sage. Rockefeller and Carnegie
endoWments, with their possibilities of
good Tor the race, were yet intangible
ideas in the minds of their creators.
Pure politics was then non-existent.
The previous presidential campaign had
conclu 81 V ely
Purity in Politics proved that
Comes to the Front. t tae. bu. s since e
has followed for the publication of cam
paign expenses and other purifying ex-
pedients. So. too. has the country awak-
ened to the fact that graft is iniquitous
and city governments have come to be
run for the good Of the inhabitants
rather than for the benefit of the office
holders. Everywhere one turns he may
find evidence Of the civil upllft that has
taken place. The temperance cause has
been transformed from a prohibition SEN
t1ment held by few people into a great
principle that has swept over half the
eccuntry. Child labor laws, EMPLOYERS
liability laws-a hundred statutes tell of
the rise OF humanitarian spirit which
va Was am put Unknown when Congress said
the word which meant that Spain should
step aside from the western world, a
world in which she had figured so largely
Tor centuries.
The expansion of medical science has
kept pace with everything else in these
croWning thirteen years Of our national
existence. When the solemn appeal to
the arbitrament of the sword was signed
1t meant not only the liberation of the
people of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines from the CALLING yoke of Spanish
dominion. but it was destined to mean
the emancipation Of the tropical world
from the thralldom Of its greatest
brought such benefits to humanity as our
trouble with Spain. through the boon of
the discovery of the method Of yellow
fever transmission. 1t has brought about
new epoch in public medicine, and
when the world obeys every lesson that
is based on the medical lessons taught
by the Spanish American war epidemic
disease will be banished from the earth.
The entire world has watched the
growth of the United States since the
beginning Of the Spanish American war
Its advent into the realm of world DOW
ers has brought great responsibilities, but
they have been assumed with confidence
In no other thirteen years of American
history has our diplomacy so affected the
diplomatic history Of the world 1t was
America back of President Roosevelt
that ended the Russo-Japanese war, and
perhaps other wars have been averted by
the timely interposition of word OF
friendly International council. The move
ment for international peace has borne
its richest fruits since Americas war
with Spain. The proposed establishment
Of an international court Of arbitration to
which all nations will be compelled to
submit their differences is an American
idea. and If it ever becomes a fact II will
be another contribution to the notable
thirteen-year period just closed-a thir-
teen years that has been to the expansion
of material and more things in America
what the Elizabethan age was to- litera-
ture in England.