The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-10-21

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to. cross the Atlantic Reapers and
mowers were still of the most primi-
tive design. Tractors and gang
pIows, and other modern and labor
saving agricultural machinery, We're
unknown to the farmer. Artificial
fertilizers we're not in use, Burbanks
creative genius had not entered the
garden and orchard. and coal tar pro-
ducts had not frightened the earth
with their dyes or darkened it with
explosives. IN the field of medicine,
the germ theory Of disease had not
come into acceptance, and the PathO-
genie germs of dipthheria, tubercu-
iosis and many other menacing dis
eases had not vet been identified and
isolated Surgery had not the effic-
lent assistance that 1t now has of
anaesthetics and the science Of pre-
yentiye medicine and sanitation had
not been so developed as TO make pos
sible the safe dwelling OF millions OF
men women and children in single
city Of the gathering of millions OF
soldiers in military camps or trenches.
Man had not learned to store the cold
of winter for the cooling OF his sum
ner or TO temper his winters with
steam heat And he was not able to
weigh the winds in such scientific
way as to make the weather fore
in every daily paper. The newspaper,
moreover, had no linotype machine
with which to set its news and no
woodpulp on which to print it in such
vast editions. It had no rotary press
es, no sereotyping process, two in
ventions Indispensable for large cir
culation. 2
1t may have been, as Mr.. Watson
says, fine burst of eloquence that
fell from Mr.. Clay's musical lips in
which he congratulated the country
upon having everything that the hui
man family could desire, but it was
not a fact.
II it had been fact and the de-
sire OF the human family had been en-
tirely satisfied the wonderful achieve
ments that we have enumerated would
never have been undertaken.
Man is Unsuitable in his desires
and he will never be satisfied until
nature unfolds to him all her mys-
teries, the key to which has not yet
been found
It IS true that when Mr.. Clay de-
liyered his musical Grafton those then
living were not troubled with the
gaunt fear of want for the woods
abounded in game. both large and
small, but not so any longer. The
most salutary laws are required to
prevent their determination. The i'm.
mense herds OF buffaloes no longer
exist and that animal is now seen
only in captivity and the wild pigeons
that formerly darkened the earth have
thus early become entirely extinct.
The country was SO self-sufficient.
Mr.. Clay IS quoted as saying that it
would never need additional territory.
vet it is possible when that speech
was delivered the United States flag
did not float over Texas and the vast
domain that we acquired from Next
co. it certainly did not float over
Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, the
Philippines and Porta Rico.
Every flower that blooms blooms
for us. and every fruit that ripens
ripens for u.s.
That is so no longer. No nation
can any more exist in isolation. The
achievements of man have united
them together almost as one family.
and what concerns one concerns all.
They are now so closely knitted
together that pistol shot in the
hands Of one half demented in far
Off corner of the earth quickly
brought almost all the nations of the
earth into deadly conflict so it be-
hooyes our statesmen of vision to
bind the nations together in bonds OF
peace and good will in order to pre-
vent the earth from being again in
carnadined with the blood of our
bravest and best