The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-10


found the robin and the blue-bream
of the Pee Dee, I am afraid that
South Carolina would to-day be a
British colony, for they would have
concentrated every man and gun to
hold a territory through which flow
ed two such rivers as the Pee Dee
and the Edisto.
The World Repubicanized.
In the year 1900 there was not a
nation on the earth where the mass
es had a voice in it's government.
They were subjects not people. In
one century the example and influence
of these United States has been such
that there is not a nation in the af-
fairs of which the people have no
voice. They have now a constitution
and a vote even in cruel Russia.
Europe has six republics, and the
new born Balkan States will ultimate
ly constitute the United States of
South Europe, and the republican
spirit born of freedom spread into
Austria and Germany.
China has thrown off the shackles
of 5000 years and 400 million people
modelled a government after ours.
In Africa the status left by the
Boer war cannot last, and in time
will come the United States of Africa.
The undeveloped resources of that
vast continent will surely attract the
young, ambitious, and strong of all
the nations, as did the Unites States
in the last century. In Mexico, with
the military despotism of Diaz over
thrown, Madero murdered, and one
revolution succeeding another, we
have just such condition as obtain
ed in Cuba. The strong, firm hand
of Uncle Sam must be put forth, not
for conquest, but to restore peace
and civilization. We are doing the
same work in the Philippines, and I
have never doubted that as soon as
those people could stand alone and
maintain self-government that the
United States would withdraw, re-
tanning coaling stations and with
them affection, good will, and trade;
making it the basis for opening the
markets of China to the cotton of
the South. The whole world is being
republicanized: the great monarch
les left are only standing to-day by
reason of their recognition Of the
right of the people to rule, and even
the Imperial War Lord of Germany
has to consent to wider and wider
voice of the people in the affairs of
government. After 1877 years the
United States stands as the beacon
light, showing the road first pointed
out by the Carpenters Son, and then
forgotten for eighteen centuries. 1t
means the dealing together of the
nations of the earth to their mutual.
profit, the advancement Of civilization
and the promotion of the material
welfare of mankind everywhere.
The statesman who looks at mate
rial things sees only the Monroe doc
trine, a billion dollars of American
money and as much more British and
German capital in Mexican mines and
railroads needing protection, but he
who believes in higher things must
see the hand of Almighty God, using
US as His instruments in spreading
human liberty and Christian civili-
zation. Many good people oppose ex-
pansion, because it increases our
national obligations. They forget
that no nation or individual ever ac-
quired power and influence without
a corresponding increase in respon-
sibility. A shrinking from response
bility is cowardice, and the American
people are not towards. This does
not necessarily mean in every case ac-
QUESTION of territory. Standing as
the United States does to-day, the
largest exporting nation, with the
heaviest balance of the worlds trade
in her favor, the wealthiest and most
resourceful, she is the dominant in
fuence for progress and civilization,
our diversity of production is mar
velous, our versatility in science and
mechanics is the wonder of the world.
With our vast wealth we cannot shut
ourselves up and allow the redun-
dance of our products to make US
poor; we must have ever widening
world markets for the surplus, and
in doing this we carry with US the
lesson of our civilization, with all of
it's mighty potentialities. If We right
ly use our opportunities, no imagi-
nation is sufficiently gifted to FORE
cast the future of this country. If