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r \ kidney r Specialist* m The Discoverer of Swamp-Root at Work la HI* Laboratory. There is a disease prevailing in this roantry most dangerous because so decep tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by it—heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack - the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves ^ break down and w •< ,e away cell by cell. Then the richness of the blood—the albumen —leaks out and the sufferer has Bright’s Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp»Root the new dis covery is the true specific for kidney, bladder and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases, after all other efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent and dollar sixes. A sample bottle sent free by mail, also a bso* telling about Swamp- Root and its wonderful cures. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co . Birghamton, N. Y. and mention this paper. m: [woman's RELIEFl A really healthy woman has lit tle pain or discomfort at tne menstrual period. No woman needs to have any. Wine of Cardui will quickly relieve those ^ smarting menstrual pains and, the dragging head, back and I side aches caused by falling of the womb and irregular men«es WINEo'CARDUlj has brought permanent relief to' 1,000,000 women who suffered every mouth. It makes the men-' strual organs strong and healthy, It is the provision made by Na- ture to give women relief from the terrible aches and pains which blight so many homes. T ^ . Greenwood, La., Oct. 14, 1900. X have been very sick for tome time. I was taken wilh a sovere pain in my side and could not cet any relief until I tried a bottlo of Wine of Cardui. Be- ! fore I had taken all of it I was relieved. 11eel it my duty to say that you have a [ wonderful medicine. Mrs. M. A. Yount. I For.vlyireiill.l Hiefaturo,address.pW:iu;*ymp. I 11 "' 1 Advisory Department, Tue [ Cnaiunooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Do You Want Insurance ? I am prepared to furnish poli cies in the very best companies at the lowest rates. If you want a bond I can make it for you. Soe me before you insure. F. G. STACY. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleflon’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. {onea ft Co 'a Stor*. O&n be tuund at office sii days In the week G. W. SPEER, A'TXOI* NI3Y-AT-L,AW. GAFFNEY, S. C. office over J. W. Tolloson's Store. N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice Jn ah Courts and all branches of the Law. ^ Office over J. W. Tolleson’s Hore. Office hours from 9.30 a ni. to 3 p. m. every day in the week. WALLACE & OTIS, LAWYERS. YrtfW apsialra, between U. A. Jones and Davenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney- Office In Court liouse. (Probate'Judge ■ office Gaffney City, S. C. Practices In all theooortfl. Collec tions a specialty C. JEFFERIES «h (JAFFNEY, S. C. anercial l.aw. Corporation I4IW Kent KaUat* Lww. ry to loan on approved security. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNKY AT LAW. Ci A I- r H* JM Y . *t. O. ^ y Public In office. Prompt attention ah biiklnoss. over K. A. Jones ft Co.'s store. It MtiuMU U. P.Sanders, W. 8. Hall. Jr Dl'HCAl, SANDERS ft HALL, Attorneys-at-Law, u**» J. u. Toils oa* 0o.‘e Mom. IT SPARTANBURG **Hro e Koe'* IIoiiihI Coast of Maine to the I’aciflc (.olden (Jat<; From Superior’s Crystal Waters to the Kvergreen Shores of the Mexican bea, Urol hers Are We All**—“And the thoughts of .Men Are Widened.’* While the 4th of July, 1773, was the date of the Declaration of Iudependence, the 4th of July. 1«01. was the time when it was carried into full effect by the es tablishment of the capital, so that this country is really but a century old. Union and independence forever is today the watchword of 7et million American free men. When the nineteenth century was born, there was not a nation In which the Hiibjects had a voice in the afTairs of gov ernment. The influence of the United States has been such during the past cen tury that there is not a civilized nation in the afTairs of which the people have no voice. They vote even in Russia. There are now live republics upon the continent of Europe. There are no nations that are not republics in the western hemisphere, and there are two republic* in Africa. Having republicunized the world and made every nation recognize, at least to some extent, the principles outlined in our declaration of independence, we now open a new century, as the beacon light of the world, in bringing about the nat ural sequeu-es of this universal brother hood of manhood, taught first by Christ when upon the earth, and forgotten through eighteen centuries, the dealing together of the nations of the earth to their mutual profit, in the advancement of civilization, the promotion of peace and the enhancement of their material welfare. Our forefathers pledged in a revolution their lives, their fortunes and their sa cred honor to secure for us this boon. They forecasted the future, and btillt the foundations of our free government upon broad and patriotic principles, which in their triumph would secure a perpetual union of states and an enduring inde pendence of the nation. > The crises through which we have passed, while menacing the stability of the union, have never imperilled onr freedom. The civil war was a severe shock to the unity of the states, but we have passed through the fiery ordeal, and today have a Uoion stronger and a patriotism broader and deeper than ever. In all this Iftud, from Maine to Ciliforuia, from the Lakes to the Gulf, there is but one heart, one country, and one people, all cemented together, by the ties of true patriotism and the love of human freedom. Well may the American people, North, South, East and West, glory in this day, hal lowed as it is by the associations and triumphs of the past, and magnified by the bright promises of the future. Our past as a nation is safe, but it is gone for ever: we cannot recall or change It. We can, however, seize the present, and wise ly use the opportunity to make our future the realization of the wildest dreams of the most optimistic American. THE LESSONS OK THE PAST. I propose today to emphasize our pres ent splendid opportunities as a nation and the grand results to flow from their full appreciation n: 1 utilization. We ire standing today with the vanishing shad ows of the last century playing about our feet, while the dim light of the dawuing new century kisses our brow. From the top of Time’s highest peak we can look backward along the great highway that all nations have traveled, we can see the steady footsteps of the human race, as it. has plodded on and on, making epochs in earth’s history and rearing monuments to mark human progress. Ijet us, my feh low-citizeus, learn wisdom from the past. Its follies, crimes and blunders may bo turned into sublime stepping stones, to lift our generation to a higher plane of existence. Along the highway, where we have passed, hate, sectionalism and blind partisanship show where the road has dropped off into many an abyss, ragged and deep. The torn garments and the whitened bones we see far down below should warn us to turn and seek the bet ter path, at whose summit lie sweet pros perity, liberty, peace and justice. Step by step the procees of education and ad vancement has proceeded. Each century bus shown some progress in a certain di- recth n in human thought, in human en deavor and in human improvement. “I doubt not thro’ the ages one increas- ing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.” The thought so beautifully expressed in the parable of the sowers is true of na tions as well as ofiindividuals. ••‘Behold there went out a sower to sow, and he sowed, some fell by the wayside and the fowls of the air came and devour ed it up.” This was true right in Jerusa lem. ‘‘And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth and imme diately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth, but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.” This was true in Rome, where Christians were put to dsath in the Coliseum. "Aud some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.” This was true in Persia, which at that time led the civilization of the world. We get our common school system from Prussia, who got it directly from Persia. ‘‘And others fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased, some thirty and some sixty and some an hundred ” It fell upon good ground In Germany and brought forth tbs Lutheran reformation. It fell on good ground la England and brought forth the full estab lishment of Protestantism. It fell upon good ground in New England and brought forth th* largest degree of religious and personal liberty ever known. It might b* said that the good ground upon which It fell all belonged to the Saxou races. Th# human ays cannot look suddenly upon « dazzling light without being blinded; when tbs Hon of (Jod flrst preached th* doctrine of the Kingdom of Hesven, In which all who eubjected themselves to the dominion of the divine Ruler should be equal and all should be brothers, human eyes were dazzled at the prospect, and the flrst sight of this splendid liberty was followed br a period of darkness so intens* that it has always been known In history ms ' the dark ages,” Then the light of liberty flickered through the clouds, and some men saw it, and keeping their eyes upon it followed |t| beckoning to th* western hemisphere, the \3louds were dispelled and the light broke forth, destined to illumin ate the world, never again to be darkened. Thlt was recognized in a happy way by the people of France, who had groped for the light and fought for a glimpse of it until the wreels of Paris ran in blood. I thougtit of this two weeks ago, as 1 sat on the deck of a steamer and saw the mag nificent statue of Liberty, which in her gratitude France presented to the nation which had hewn the way for liberty to become possible. That statue now adorns the harbor of New York, holding a torch in its hand to light the way across the seas, that those in distant climes may view the light which shines from tbe shores of America. Upon this statue is Inscribed “Liberty enlightens the world.” In its band is the wreath of peace. It en lightens the world, not by the clash of arms, or the frowns of despotism, but by the light of liberty, which, when it shines in the breast* of men, causes them to obey the only commandment ever given by the Son of God, “That ye love one another.” MORAL ADVANCEMENT GOD’S PURPOSE. No nation in the past has bad such a government as ours, and hence the results accomplished by us up to tbe Ifcth century was nothing but a preparatory work. Th* nations of the present day have utilized this preparatory work and founded their governments upon a code which recognizes God and his moral government of the universe, and man’s responsibility in carrying out tbe designs of this moral government in tbe elevation of the tace. And of all the nations we have established *a government combining all tbe excellen cies of all others that have ever existed. It has for its foundations the indestructi ble principles of true religion, human freedom and general human progress. The United States are for this reason destined to play an important and con spicuous part in the future history of the world. Isolated in tha Occident, as the earliest of the race were in the Orient, she is to become the center from which light, knowledge and civilization are to be dif fused over the whole earth. The events of the last half century have been pregnant with world wide conse quences. These have conspired to make us as a nation of far more importance to the human race and its future history than ever the chosen nation of God was in the infancy of the world. More progress has been made in science, the arts, dis- ooveries, &ud in all intellectual achieve ments, during tbe last century than had been made in sixty centuries. It seems as if the human mind was suddenly re lieved from the incubus under which it had labored for tbe ages, and with some thing like inspiration entered into the vast field of the occult and undiscovered ele ments of nature aud made them subservi ent to the phenomenal advancement of the race. Since th* morning st irs sang together at the creation, the atmosphere and all nature have had diflused in them the element of electricity, and yet its presence and utility escaped the attentiou of all the sages and philosophers of an tiquity. It was left for the christianized mind of the 10th century to comprehend its mysterious power and nature, and to make it a potential and useful agent in the practical affairs of life. In the Held of discovery the mechanical inventions of the last half century have revolutionized agriculture and all indus trial conditions, and furnished substi tutes for the labor of man which accom plish all the wonders of the human will and intellect. For the ages, tbe principle of these inventions lay dormant in the vast storehouse of nature, and human in genuity failed to comprehend it aud make it a factor in progress and civilization. It was reserved for the inquisitive intellect of the 19th century, quickened by the in spiring influences of Christianity, to ex plore this rich mine of nature, and to har ness the forces there stored away in ma chinery which has given an impetus to the progress of the world auch as has not been seen in any other era. But in the development of the princi ples of government the most rapid strides have been made. It has been discovered as almost a revelation that man was not made for governments but governments exist for man. Tbe idea of the ancient world was to organize political society and enact laws to keep ite subjects under restraint#, and to exact perfeot obedience aa the only virtue of government. The laws of.Caligula, posted so high that no one could reach them, of Solon, Lycurgus, Draco and all other lawgivers, were codes intended only for the physical and Intel- lectual development of man. His moral sense was repudiated and the education of his moral nature entirely neglected. He was treated as a creative of time aud circumstances, and no account was taken of bis immortal destiny. In this consist ed the pre-eminent infirmity of all the monarchies and republicr which existed in ancient times. The decalogue, which should be the foundation of all organized political society, as promulgated by the greatest human lawgiver thn world has ever seen, was ignored, and there was sub stituted for this enduring basis tbs sandy foundations of pagan philosophy and heathen mythology. For this reason all these governments in time tottered and grumbled into ruins. THE ERA OK WAR SUCCEEDED BY ERA OF COMMERCE. Ever since the foundation of the civil ized world the nations of the earth have conducted their warlike expeditiona against other nations either through pure love of couquest, or from motives of plunder. Within recent years, the civil ized nations have begun to recognize that these methods are not in consonance with the principles of humanity. Their con quests have as a rule been peaceful ones during the past few years, made for the purpose of extending their commerce. The flrst department of com me roe es tablished by any country was inaugurated by Germany, and since that time all of the nations hav* recognized th* propriety of making tha extension of commerce a national object. This new protection giv en to commercial interest has lesulted in a large extension of such interest. Th* International trade of the world to day is over twenty times as great as it was a century ago. It has increased out of all proportion to the increase of population. It has caused a corresponding increase of wealth. This condition has brought about a new ere in the world’s history, which might be termed the era of commerce, aud this bids fair to succeed permanently to that of war, which has lasted throughout the centuries preceding the opening of the present on*. This has caused th* uiualgs inatlou of large corporations into still larger ones. It has caused commerce to be conducted upuu a scale never dreamed of by our fathers. While trusts are dangerous to ths pub lic welfare by reason of their purpose, wliich is to increase prices by preventing com |>< til ion and limit production to the point of the greatest possible profit, the hgltimate corporation, however large its capital, having for its purpose a great in crease of production and the extension of trade instead of the stiffing of trade, is distinctly beneficial and assists in the dif fusion of general prosperity. The opening up of new markets will create new lines of employment and in crease the number of men required to conduct the old lines of business, thus affording to the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow the opportunity to keep constantly employed and insuring him against periods of enforced idleness. It is a happy condition which benefits all and is not a condition which should array one class against the other. Trusts should be stamped out wherever they may ap pear. whether their capital be large or small, but the employment of large capi tal, if used in the creation of new trade, cannot fail to confer benefits upon the entire people. LABOR AND CAPITAL- And these ancient governments too made the mistake of treating labor as a commodity, without reference to the laborers. This mistake was made solely in the interrst of the employer of labor, and from the most ancient times the na tions of tbe earth have treated the laborer, with relation to his labor, as a personal ity. They have comp.'lied to dispose of his labor and have eve:, times, by etatiitory enactments, compelled all young men to learn a trade. But while treating the labor as inseparable from the person ality of the laborer, they did nothing to protect him in his labor. Under the prin ciples of equal justice to all, the laborer will be protected in Ms labor, as t he em ployer is in his capital. The interests of the laborer and his employer, if properly understood, are reciprocal. They are in terested to bring about one result, the profitable employment of labor to the good of both labor and capital. It is to the in terest of capital to have efficient and con tented labor. It is to the interest of labor that capital should be profitably employed in order to increase tbe demand for labor. Under the principles of equality and jus tice, this relation will be so well under stood that it will bring about a system of legal arbitration, similar to the principles governing court* of equity, that will de termine questions arising between labor and its employers in such a manner as will advance the interests of both. It was reserved for the christianized in tellect of the 10th century to repudiate the unchristian governmental systems of pre vious ages, and to construct an organized political system of government which re cognized the truth that governments were made for man, and intended to make him a responsible moral as well as intellectual subject; that they were intended to secure human freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of intellect, and freedom of ac tion; that they are to be founded on the great moral law proclaimed from Mt. Sinai, aud that nations as well as individ uals were to be subject to its commands, aud that they weio intended to be the hu man agencies not only to bless their sub jects but the world. The republican gov ernment of the United States is the most perfect the world has ever seen. It is a government based upon the rock founda tion of the people’s rights to govern them selves under the sanctions of an enlight ened conscience and of ths moral law. Perfect individual and national liberty is guaranteed by it, and its great purpose is to promote the general welfare. Truly the hand of God has been in this wonder ful age of human progress, and has been instrumental in raising up our republic as a beacon light to the world and the gov ernmental instrumentality which is to spread the blessings of human liberty and civilization. OOD’S PURPOSE IN EXPANSION. With this heaven appointed destiny, what splendid opportunities are afforded us as a nation. Home are disposed to talk flippautly about the advent of the United States into the arena of the struggle among the great piwers of the earth. They oppose the extension of our terri tory, of onr commerce, of the blessings of our political institutions and Christian civilization, because it increases our na tional obligations. They forget that no nation ever acquired power and influxes without inviting increased responsibilities and marching forward with unflinching boldness towards its destiny. A shrinking from responsibility is cowardice, and the American people are not cowards. Carthage, with the richest merchants and the finest shipping in the world, at tempted to extend her commerce without extending her territory, and the result was her destruction, because there was no unity between her and th* people with whom she dealt. Our own great city of New York oould not continue to exist if all the states except New York were for eign territory. London's continual pros perity rests upon the intimate relations be tween Great Britain and her colonies. Paris, although numerically great, has no power as a commercial city of the world, but contents itself with leading only in fashion and scandal. What would RoMe have been, without an extension of her empire, but an iusig- Bificant city on the banks of the Tiberf Without her expansion the pages of his tory would have never been blazoned with the glories of the eternal city. Without the expansion of her empire, Greece would have been a little speck on the map of the world, and the splendor* of Athens and the gloriM of Marathon would never have beeu recorded as tributes to human learn ing and valor. In all ages nations have bad national obligations imposed upon them, aud, when discharged, they have flourished for a time, but they finally per ished because they were not equal to ihelr increased responsibilities. Shall we, with the experience of ths past before us, shrink from our obligations as a nation and prove recreant to the high trust of being sponsor for tbe Christian religion and beraer of the glad tldinKsof great Joy to all iMples? Khali we fail in this suspi cious hour of opportunity to enjoy aud strive to perpetuate the freedom which is the birthright of the race, and to work for its universal enjoymentf Shall we foun der on the rock upon which all other na tions hav* founderedf Away with such unpatriotic aud unchristian objections to the expansion ot our political institu tions. The Hue of duty marked out for us as a nation is a straight and narrow way. There is no need for us to mistake it. We have the “pillar of cl*ud” by day and the “pil lar of tire’’ by night to guide us. If ws watch thoae with steady gaze ws will safely pass through th* “Red sea’’ of dan ger before us, and at last reach the goal of our national aspirations end oppertun- Ula* _ . Our land is tbe most favowd of earth. We have a diversity of soil mnl climate unequalled. Our diversity of production is marvelous. Our versatility of scien title and inventive genius is the wonder of the world. We are able not only to feed our millions of population but tbe hungry of all nations. We can clotlieibe hun dreds of millions of people in the Orient. Our wealth is fabulous. With all these advantages can we afford to shut up our selves iu a “pent up Utica,” and allow tbe very redundance of our products to make us poor? No other nation ever bad the grand commercial opportunities we enjoy. Our harvests make our fields smile with joy and loudly call us to reap and enjoy rich rewards by supplying oilier nations and still have an abundance left. As a return of gratitude to the Ruler of na tions for our unparalleled prosperity and advantages, it is our national duty to grow, expand, and go forth to contest with other nations for commercial suprem acy. Nations like individuals must be inter dependent. In the past tbe nations have ignored this doctrine, and have destroyed each other in their strife for dominion and suoremacy. It was never intended in the great plans of Omniscience that any na tion can exist without being a blessing or curse to others. This idea of interdepen dence in the last half century seems to have become the settled conviction of all the nations. The recent troubles in China made all the great civilized powers neigh bors. It brought them iu unison for their own betterment and the welfare of heathen China. Why then criticize our President for the attitude of the United States in this Chinese complication and for acting in concert with the other na tions as a neighbor? It was one of her national obligations as well as a great op portunity to exemplify her readiness to help and to bless all other nations. For 1800 years the human race has been struggling to obey tbe divine command, “Go ye into all tbe world aud preach the gospel.” But little progress was made for centuries upon centuries. Seas of blood have been shed in this evangelical work. The progress has been slow, but the fire has been kept dimly burning upon the sacred altar. It was left to tbe mys terious Christian influence of the nine teenth century, when the human mind was liberated, to commence anew this gos pel work, aud its light has blazed in every land, and tbe bible has been published iu every tongue. We are on the eve of a new Christian era in the world. Our na tion with its free government and its ag gressive Christian civilization is in a posi tion to inarch forward and convert the world. With the isles of the Pacific in our possession, with the confidence of the millions of heathens in the East, and with our wealth and commerce, and Anglo- Saxon love of liberty, we can raise the banner of the cross and accomplish the heaven designed work of having the gos pel preached to every creature. Our republican goverument, with these mighty potentialities for progress, civili zation and human freedom, is well fitted to challenge the admiration of the world, and to scatter everywhere the blessings of man’s liberty. Standing as the United States does today, as the largest export ing nation, the wealthiest and most re sourceful nation, they can exercise a con- aful MT! trolling influence in the affairs of thu world, and ultimately become dominant in them. Their political institutions have given them this prominence, and if thu people wisely use all the opportunities of the present, they will become the great factor iu the world’s future progress and civilization. FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. If we patrioticalty utilize our present opportunities and fulfil all of our national obligations, no one can speculate too ro mantically about our future as a nation. For one to have looked forward at the founding of Rome, and predicted all the glories of the Roman empire when in the zenith of its splendors, he would have i>een hailed as a dreamer and his prophecies as fairy tales. For one to have stood on the barren shores of Britain when Cuesat landed there with his legions and por trayed in story the glorious Suture of the British empire, he would have been mock ed as a prophet with a distempered im agination. So if one standing on the great eminence of time, the beginning of the twentieth century, should predict the fu ture glory of the American republic, it would be only a story hair written or a picture dimly painted, with all the splen dors of coloring left out. I do not believe that any mind can have even tbe faintest conception of what our nation will be and will accomplish in the coming centuriis, if we are true to ourselves and our heaven appointed destiny. When we look backward to the 4th of July, 177t>, and see thirteen colonies struggling with the most powerful government on the earth for independence, and consider the great odds against us, and contrast our condi tion then and now, we can scarcely credit the evidence of our own experience. Tbe progress we have made, the government we have built up, the nation we have crj- ated, all seem like fancies, and we are really lost in amazement at the contem plation. Today seventy-six millions of American freemen bow down at the altar of liberty erected by our forefathers and pour out their labations of praise. A cen tury hence, if we are true to constitutional government and human liberty, two hun dred millions will gather around theallar. And as the centuries roll on thousands of millions will celebrate this anniversary, and their hosannahs of freedom will echo and re-eeba throughout the earth, and all nations will be prepared t*R take up the refrain. The day of man’s deliverance has come, liberty aud Christianity, now and forever. The promised land, flowing with milk and honey, was the encouragement held out to the Israelites in their desolate wan derings in the wilderness. Without this they would have faltered aud fallen by the wayside and never accomplished the divine purpose of their deliverance from Egyptian bondage. As a nation we have reached a crisis equally as important ns that which confronted the Israelites, and the encouragement offered us is the world as our promiaed land, where we are to plant the seeds of freedom and Christian ity and labor to fructify and enrich them, until they ahall grow up ami the nations shall lie down in peace under their shade. The same power which brought the wan derers at last out of the wilderness is sus taining ua. and If we are true to duty and destiny it will hi ing us into the promised land of our hopes a id rew ards. Such a contemplation is bewildering, and yet if we read the si^us of the times correctly, we are us a nuliou moving on to such a destiny. The great e\eut# ip tltf future of our .republic cm be piiaiTcteiU with some de gree of cert unty. «)neof the pre-eminent events will bo a union of the English-' spunking race, in which Anglo-Saxon • ideas of liberty and ebristiau civilization will become predominant, and finally control the politics, the policies and com mcrce of the world. There may not be any political alliance between the republi can United States aud monarchical Great Britain, hut there will lie a unity of pur pose which will link them together in the bonds of a common interest and race af filiation. With such a combination of resources and power, it will lie possible to disseminate throughout the earth the spirit of lilierty now permeating the entire Anglo-Saxon race. In time the prophecy of the last century tiiat Europe would be- ome republican or Cossack will be ful filled. The Eastern question of today is the beginning of the final struggle. With a union of the English speaking psoples the despotism of Russia will be destroyed, and all the nations will be forced into the crusade for liberating mankind from the blighting tyranny under which it has suf fered for centuries. What an entrancing picture—the unity of all the nations iu one common and patriotic purpose, to secure universal human freedom and through it to unite the race of man m one national brotherhood. Let it be un derstood that in any future alliance, either implied or explicit, the United States is the master of the situation. That this is true is evident to any business man, who will consider for a moment the trade situ ation of the world. All of tlie nations of Europe, inclu ling Great Britain, have so dense a population, that every foot of area, if cultivated to its fullest extent, would not produce sufficient food to sup port the people. The United States, upon the other hand, produces vastly more than it consumes. It controls the food of the world, and any retaliatory measures by foreign nations intended to curtail the products of commerce or industry in the United States could beeffectually stopped by similar measures as to our own food exports. The retaliatory measures now threaten ed by Russia will not be carried out for this reason. Russia made a bluff and when the United States called the bluff. Russia, instead of carrying out its threat, placed the entire matter in the hands of the minister to the United Stages, and it is now a question of diplomacy, which is solved so far as the threats of Russia are concerned. The time was when Ixuidtin and Liverpool as jobbing centers practi cally controlled the trade of the world. That trade has practically passed from Great Britain to the United States. The balance of trade in favor of this country during the past three years has been a lit tle over a billion and one-half dollars. Had the United States not been a debtor country, this amount would have been added to the surplus gold In this country. A billion dollars of this has been used in buying up American securities held abroad until our railroads, which were controlled by English capital, are now in American hands. We have now purchased the control over our own industries. Notwithstanding the fact that this caused the exportation of vast quan;ities of gold to Europe, the bal ance of trade has been so greatly in excess of the payment of such indebtedness that the gold r. serves of the foreign nations are decreasing, while the gold reserves of our own banks are increasing. Foreign nations for the first time in history have come to American banks for their gold. If properly handled, this balance of trade will increase from year to year. As the total gold outside of the United States now iu existence is only about three thou sand million dollars, if we sell for gold all that we sell, and buy for gold all that w« buy, it would take only a few years to drain the world of its entire gold supply. England held precisely this position as to the world’s trade when it demonetized silver and by that action transferred the control of the world’s finances from the Hague to the Thames. As the United States now holds this position, she is rap idly transferring it from IauhIoii to New York. When this transfer is oompiete, England will be the flrst country to com plain that there is not sufficient gold with which to conduct the business of the world, and will ask to hav* resto red a bi metallic basis. Anotherevent will be the assumption by the United States of the obligation of ar biter in all international disputes. Her commanding political and commercial in fluence wilj insure the concession of this prerogative. In China, during the present convocation of the great powers, the United States supported by Great Britain have controlled to a considerable extent the negotiations. Last year Russia pro posed the establishment of an interua- tional peace tribunal, and actually led in the delilierations at the Hague. In Hits world’s pacific convention t e govern ments representing the English-speaking peoples exercised a controlling influence. This pacific action on tbe part of Russia aud other nations was a recognition of the coming ascendancy of ths United States in the affairs of the world. To-day were it not for the conservative interven tion of our nation, supported by Great Britain, China would be dismembered and her territory partitioned among the European powers. The inevitable ten dency of this recognition of our growing power and influence as a nation is to make the United States the arbiter in the international disputes of the near futaro. When this consummation, devoutly to be wished, is realized, tbe peace and rapid progress of mankind will lie assured. The Anglo Saxou peoples have always pro moted tlie cause of human liberty and ad vancement, and with their control of the destinies of the race the near future will hail the early dawn of tne promised mil- leuiuni. Another event of the future will be the complete commercial supremacy of the United States. The Pacific will become the great highway upon which her teem ing products will be boras to every land. With the Atlantic and Pacific Joined by the Nicaraguan canal her sails wiil whiten every harbor, and aea, and ocean, and lake, aqd her commerce will Ite thn com merce of the world. With her natural advantages, her undeveloped resource and her hundreds of iiillllona of inventive and progressive population, she can defy efforts of the other nations to rival her productions aud trade, and to snatch from her the crown of commercial auprs- niaoy. Another event of transcendant import ance will ho the complete triumph of the gospel of Christ through the achievements of the Anglo Saxon race With tlie star spangled Imnner of the United States iu consort with the (lag of the British empire floating iu every harlsir and ocean of the glc»>e. all peoples wiil tw aroused from their heathen sleep of sixty centuries and brought to a knowledge of the trim God. These flags represent ail the snlstautiai human magmas in th^ >gr| ..*,t hlgties! MTi*ITe»' Vrvlllz3»Tlofl the moral law, governments t| ft' i ever imtii uled, and the true! human freedom. Before th* aggressive power and influence they exercise effet* systems of civilization and religion will crumble and fall, and all the heathen nations will join in aosaunaMi to the one true and living God. It was never designed that individuals should tight singly the battles of the cross. All they can accomplish by individual ef forts is to convert individuals to tbe true faith. It is tlie mission of nations to achieve fruitful victories under th* ban ner of Hie cross and spread Christianity. Paul labored and preached all over the known world in his time, but it was the conquering banner of Constantine sup ported by nil tbe power of the Homan em pire that crystallized results and made effective tlie preaching of the great apostle of the Gentiles. It seems that to our nation is committed the work in these latter days of planting the banner of the cross in the isles of the sea and among all iieathen nations, aud fulfilling tlie prophecy that all peoples and tongues shall how and worship the true God. This work of the evangeliza tion of t lie world was not ready for accom plishment after Paul’s preaching and Luther’s reformation but was reserved for one of the era-making events of the 20th century. If as a nation we are true to duty, opportunity and our appointed destiny, we will lie the favored national instrumentality to fight the decisive bat tle of Armageddon, and to achieve the final aud complete victory for Christi anity. We cannot as a nation avoid these aac- red obligations imposed upon u*. We must go forward and meet the grave re sponsibilities of the future. They can be discharged, and when they are, what a glorious future there will lie for our nation and for the Anglo-Saxon race, with one language, one civilization, one chria- tiauity, and our perfect political institu tions spread all over the habitable earth. Then the pages of history will be nothing but the entrancing story of the glorious achievements of our republic. The world will be wrapped in a mantle of peace, the race of man will have achieved all it was designed to accomplish, aud the nations will pursue in hrrmouv the arts of peace and the path of happiness, and thus enjoy the full fruition of the efforts of man for six thousand years. ▲ PRESIDENT NOT AFRAID TO TRUST EX- ^ CONFEDERATES. Fellow-citizens, one more word and I am done. This is not the place or time where politics and persons should he discussed. The war with Spain, if it meant nothing more, has been worth ten times the blood and treasure it cost in reuniting this coun try. We had a President in the White House who was uot afraid to trust ex- Confederates. He not only spoke lovingly of our dead. Upt he trusted the command of the armies of the United States aud the honor of this country to ex-Confeder- ates. Lee, Wheeler and our own gallant Butler were honored equally with Grant, Logan and Harrison. 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