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tfUM'S SPEECH AT SPABTANBUi zsmFrom the Rode Bound Coast 3faine to the Pacific Golden Ga C; , ITroni Superior's Crystal Waters ; tito Evergreen Shores of the Mexk Sea, Brothers Are We All'*-"A ?tte Thoughts of Men Are Widene< "While the 4th Of July, 1775, was T:- ?ste of the Declaration of Independec the 4th of July. 1801, was the time wi it-was carried into full effect by the tablishmeat of the capital, so that t f0? -country is really but a century old. Uh ?ad independence forever is today 1 ?watchword of 75 . million American fx TBf"- When the nineteenth century v IJOTE, there was not a nation in which 1 subjects had a voice in the affairs of g< ?rament. The influence of the Unit -Boites has been such during the past o ?Jsay that there is not a civilized natl ia the affairs of which the people have voice. They vdte even in Russia. Th< ?re now five republics upon the. contins ?? ?nrope. There ara, no nations that i ?ot republics in the western hemisphe sad there are two republics in' Af ri < : . . 13aving republicanized the world a fc-?yJna?B every nation recognize, at least some extent, the principles outlined uar declaration of independence, we nc ?opee a new century, as the beacon lig sf the world, in bringing about the ni taal sequences of this universal broth? ioodof manhood, taught first by Chri ?hen upon the earth, and forgott through- eighteen centuries, the deal ii c together of the nations-of the earth their mutual profit, in the advanceme -cf civilization, the promotion of pea ?od the enhancement of their materi ?<?vr". "welfare.' Our forefathers pledged in a revolutic their lives, their fortunes- and their s rred honor to secure for us this boo - 3H*ey forecasted the future, and built tl loundations of our free government upc ; ^?jroad and patriotic principles, which i - their triumph would secure a perpetu union cf states and an enduring ind pendence of the nation. ?The cris? -ftrough which we have passed, wh? - ^menacing the stability of the union, ha* ;v viever imperilled our freedom. The civ h: "war was a severe shock to the unity < ^ t3? states, but we have passed throng the fiery ordeal, and today have a Unio i-'r. -stronger and a patriotism broader an ?eeper than ever. In all this land, f roi 3?aine to California, from the Lakes t ' the Gulf, there is but one heart, on country, and one people, all cemente i together, by the ties of true patriotisi sad the love of human freedom. We" anay the American people, North, Soutt :'; v . 32asx and West, glory in this day, ha] .; ; 3owed as it is by the associations an triumphs of the past, and magnified b; .?e bright promises of" the future. On past as a nation is safe, but it is gone foi cesser: we cannot recall or change it. W ram, however, seize the present, and wisc -ly use the opportunity to make our futur '.- the realization of the wildest dreams o : ti? most optimistic American. THE LESSONS OF THE PAST. I propose today to emphasize our pres eat splendid opportunities as a natioi ?sod the grand results to flow from thei : "foll appreciation and utilization. We ari ; Standing today with the vanishing shad ?ows of the last century playing about otu ~; lie?t, while the dim light of the dawninj C.- ?ew century kisses our brow. Fromth? :;?:r. tap of Time's' highest peak we can lool ."; l?ckward along the great highway thal all nations have traveled, we can see the steady footsteps, of the human race, as il -has plodded on and on, making epochs ir earth's history and rearing monuments .tc - ?aark human progress. Let us, myfel low-citizens, learn wisdom from, the past Its follies, crimes and blunders maybe turned into sublime stepping stones, tc ".lift oar generation to a higher plane ot existence. Along the highway, where we U luye passed, hate, sectionalism and band partisanship show where the road has dropped off into many ah abyss, ragged ?aid 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 has shown some progress in a certain di rectic n in human thought, in human en? deavor and in human improvement. **Ijdoubt not thro* the ages one increas? ing purpose rans, . And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." The thought so beautifully expressed fa the parable of the sowers is true of na? tions as well as of jin di vi duals. **Behold there went out a sower to sow, sad he sowed, some fell by the wayside and the fowls of the air came and devour? ed it np." This was true right ia 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 ?oct it withered away." This was true in Some, where Christians were put to death ia the Coliseum. "And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit." This iras, true in Persia, which at that time led the civilization of the world. We get our common school system from Prussia, who SOt it directly from Persia. **And others fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased, ?orne thirty and some sixty and some an 3mudred-" It fell upon good ground in ISexmanyand brought forth the Lutheran ?formation. It fell on good ground in .Xngland and brought forth the full estab? lishment of Protestantism. It fell upon good ground in New England and brought iorth the largest degree of religious and -personal liberty ever known. It might be said that the good ground upon which it 3dl all belonged to the Saxon races. The human eye ctn not look suddenly upon a dazzling .i .-nr with ur- beim: blinded: when T'-'-S .> ?r ? frr?t pr ached the -^=-~l?T - _vi iir.tvee. ia which all who subjected themselves to tJ dominion of the divine Ruler should 1 equal and all shoald be brothers, humi eyes were dazzled at the prospect, and t] first sight of this splendid liberty w; followed br a period of darkness so inten that it has always been known inhisto] as "the dark ages." Then the light of liberty nicker* through the clouds, and some men saw i and keeping their eyes upon it follow? its beckoning to the western hemispher where the clouds were dispelled and tl full light broke forth, destined to illumii ate the world, never again to be darkene Thit was recognized in a happy way I the people of France, who had groped f< the light and fought for a glimpse of until the streets of Paris ran in blood, thought of this two weeks ago, as I sat c the deck of a steamer and saw the maj nificent statue of Liberty, which in he gratitude France presented to the natio which had hewn the way for liberty 1 become possible. That statue now adon the harbor of New York, holding a torc in its hand to light the way across tl seas, that those in distant climes ma view the light which shines from th shores of America. Upon this statue 5 inscribed "liberty enlightens the world. In its hand is the wreath of peace. It ei lightens the world, not by the clash c ??rms,W the frowns of despotism, but b the light of liberty, which, when it shine in the breasts of men, causes them to obe the only commandment ever given by th Son of God, ^That ye love one another." MORAL ADVANCEMENT GOD'S PURPOSE. No nation in the past has had such government as ours, and hence the result > accomplished by us up to the 19 th cen tur -Tas nothing but a preparatory work. Th nations of the present day have utilize this preparatory work and founded thei governments upon a code which recognize God and his moral government of th j universe, and man's responsibility ii I carrying out the designs of this mora government in the elevation of the race And of all the nations we have establishe< a government combining all the excelled cie3 of all others that have ever existed It has for its foundations the indestruct? ble principles of true religion, humai freedom and general human progress The United States are for this reasoi destined to play an important and con spicuous part in the future history of th.? world. Isolated in tho Occident, as th? earliest of the race were in the Orient, sh? 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 mas? us as a nation of far more importance tc the human race and its future histor? than ever the chosen nation of God was in the infancy of the world. More progress has been made in science,, the arts, dis ?sover?s, and in all intellectual achieve ments, during the last century than had been made in sixty centuries. It seems as if the human mind was suddenly re? lieved from the incubas under which it had labored for the ages, and with some? thing like inspiration entered into the vast field of the occult and undiscovered ele? ments of nature and made them subservi? ent to the phenomenal advancement of the race. Since the morning stars sang together at the creation, the atmosphere and all nature have had diffused in them the element of electricity, and yet its presence and utility escaped the attention of all the sages and philosophers of an? tiquity. It was left for the christianized mind of the 19th 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 field of discovery the mechanical inventions of the last half century have revolutionized agriculture and all indus? trial conditions, and fnrnished substi? tutes for the labor of man which accom? plish all the wonders of the human will and intellect. For the ages, the principle of these inventions lay dormant in the vast storehouse of nature, and human in? genuity failed to comprehend it and 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, andi to har? ness the forces there stored sway in ma? chinery which has given an impetus to the progress of the world s nen 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. The idea of the ancient world was to organize political society and enact laws to keep its subjects under restraints, and to exact perfect obedience as the only virtue of government. The I laws oflCaligula, posted so high that no one could reach them, of Solon, Lycurgus. I 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 creature of time and circumstances, and no account was taken of his immortal destiny. In this consist? ed the pre-eminent infirmity of all the monarcliies and republics which existed in ancient times. The decalogue, which should be the foundation of all organized political society, as promulgated by the greatest human lawgiver th? world has ever seen, was ignored, and there was sub? stituted for this enduring basis the sandy foundations of pagan philosophy and heathen mythology. For this reason all these governments in time tottered and crumbled into ruins. THE ERA OF WAR SUCCEEDED BY ERA OF COMMERCE. Ever since the foundation of the civil? ized world the nations of the earth have conducted their warlike expeditions against other nations either through pure love of conquest, 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 ~rs? department of commerce tablishedby any country was inaugural by Germany, and since that time all the nations have recognized the propr? of making the extension of commerce national object. This new protection sr en to commercial interest has iesulted a large extension of such interest. T international trade of the world to-day over twenty times as great as it was century ago. It has increased out of ; proportion to the increase of populatic It has caused a corresponding increase wealth. This condition has brought abo a new era in the world's history, whi Imight be termed the era of commerce, a this bids fair to succeed permanently that of war, which has lasted througho the centuries preceding the opening of t present one. This has caused the amalg matioh of large ? corporations into st larger ones. It has caused commerce be conducted upon a scale never dream* of by onr fathers. While trusts are dangerous to the pu lie welfare by reason of their purpoj which is to increase prices by preventu competition and limit production to t point of the greatest possible profit, tl legitimate corporation, however large i capital, having for its purpose a great i crease of production and the extension trade instead of the stiffing of trade, distinctly beneficial and assists in the d: fusion of general prosperity. The opening up of new markets wi create newlines of employment and i crease the number of men required conduct the old lines of business, th\ affording to the man who earns his bre? ?by the sweat of his brow the opportunil to keep constantly employed and in surir him against periods of enforced idlenea It is a happy condition which benefits a and is not a condition which should arra one class against the other. Trusts shonJ be stamped out wherever they maya; pear, whether their capital be large < small, but the employment of large cap tal, if used in the creation of new trad cannot fail to confer benefits upon tl entire people. LABOE AND CAPITAL And these ancient governments tc made the mistake of treating labor as commodity, without reference to tl laborers. This mistake was made solel in the interest of the ? lover of labo: and from the most an^i -it times the ni tions of the earth have treated the labore: with relation to his labor, as a persona ity. They have compelled him to dispos of his labor and have even at times, b statutory enactments, compelled all y o un men to learn a trade. But while treatin the labor as inseparable Irom the persor ality of the laborer, they did nothing t protect him in his labor. Under the prir ciples of equal justice to all, the labore will be protected in his labor, as the em j)loyer is in his capital. The interests o the laborer and his employer, if properl; understood, are reciprocal. They are in terested to bring about one result, th profitable employment of labor to the goo? 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 labo that capital should be profitably employe< in order to increase the 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 o: legal arbitration, similar to the principle.' governing courts of equity, that will de termine questions arising between labo: and its employers in such a manner a? will advance the interests of both. It was reserved for the christianized in teliect of the 19th century to repudiate thc 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 hin: a responsible moral as well as intellectual subject; that they were intended to securi human freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of intellect, and freedom of ac? tion; that they are to be founded on th? great moral law proclaimed from Mt. Sinai, and that nations as well as individ? uals were to be subject to its commands, and that they were 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 au enlight? ened conscience and of the 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 ag a beacon light to the world and the gov? ernmental instrumentality which is to spread the blessings of human liberty and civilization. GOD'S PURPOSE IN EXPANSION. With this heaven appointed destiny, what splendid opportunities are afforded us as a nation. Some are disposed to talk flippantly about the advent of the United States into the arena of the struggle among the great powers of the earth. They oppose the extension of our terri? tory, of our 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 influence without inviting increased responsibilities and marching forward with unflinching boldness towards its destiny. A shrinking from responsibility is cowardice, and the I 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 the people with whom she dealt. Our own great city of New York couid not continue to exist if all the states except New York were for eign territory. London's continual pros? perity rests upon the intimate reiaiions 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 insig? nificant city on the banks of the Tiber? Without her expansion the pages of his tory would have never been blazoned wi the glorie* )f the eternal city. Withe the expansion of her empire, Greece wot have been a little speck on the map of t world, and the splendors of Athens a the glories of Marathon would never ha k been recorded as tributes to human lea] ing and valor. In all ages nations ha had national obligations imposed up them, and, when discharged, they ha flourished for a time, but they finally pi ished because they were not equal to ih increased responsibilities. Shall we, wi the experience of the past before i shrink from our obligations as a natl and prove recreant to the high trust "-being sponsor for the Christian religi and bearer of the glad tidincs of great j to all peoples? Shall we fail in this aus] cious hour of opportunity to enjoy ai strive to perpetuate the freedom which j^the birthright of the race, and to work f its universal enjoyment? Shall we fon der on the rock upon which all other r tions have foundered? Away with sn? unpatriotic and unchristian objections tte expansion of our political instit tions. The line of duty marked out for us as nation is a straight and narrow way. The is no need for us to mistake it. We ha? il e "pillar of eland" by day and the "pi ?lar of fire" by night to guide us. If \ watch those with steady gaze we: w] sa fely pass through the ''Red sea" of da ger before us, and at last reach the go. of our national aspirations and opportu ities. Our land is the most favored of eartl We have a diversity of soil and clima unequalled. Our diversity of productic pis marvelous. Our versatility of sciei tifie and inventive genius is the wonder < the world. We are able not only to fe? our millions of population but the hungi of all nations. We can clothe the hm dreds of millions of people in the Orien Our wealth is fabulous. With all thef advantages can we afford to shut up on: ;selves in a "pent up Utica," and allow ti very redundance of our products to mai us poor? No other nation ever had th grand commercial opportunities we enjoi Our harvests make our fields smile wit joy and loudly call us to reap and en jo rich rewards by supplying other nation and still have an abundance left. As return of gratitude to the Ruler of ni tions for our unparalleled prosperity an advantages, it is our national duty t grow, expand, and go forth to contes with other nations for commercial supren acy. . Nations like individuals must be intel dependent. In the past the nations hav ignored this doctrine, and have destroyei each other in their strife for dominion an? supremacy. It was never intended in th great plans of Omniscience that any na tfon can exist without being a blessing o curse to others. This idea of interdepen dence in the last half century seems t have become the settled conviction of al the nations. The recent troubles in Chini made all the great civilized powers neigh bors. It brought them in unison for thei: own betterment and the welfare o heathen China. Why then criticize ou. President for the attitude of the Unltec States in this Chinese complication anc for acting in concert with the other na tions as a neighbor? It was one of hei national obligations as well as a great op portunity to exemplify her readiness t< help and to bless all other nations. For 1S00 years the human race has beer struggling to obey the divine command "Go ye into all the world and preach tht gospel." But little progress was mad? for centuries upon centuries. Seas oi 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 the mys? terious christian influence of the nine? teenth century, when the human mind was liberated, to commence anew this gos? pel work, and its light has blazed in every land, and the bible has been published in 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 march 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 preachsd to every creature. Our republican government, with these mighty potentialities for progress, civili? zation and human freedom, i* well fitted to challenge the admiration of the world, and to scatter everywhere the Welsings 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? trolling influence in the affairs of the I world, and ultimately become dominant j in them. Their political institutions have given them this prominence, and if the f people wisely use all the opportunities of the present, they will become the great factor in the world's future progress and civilization. FUTUBE OF THE AMERTCAX REPUBLIC If we patrioticalty utilize our present opportunities and fulfil all of our national obligations, no one can speculate too ro? mantically about our ruture 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 been hailed as a dreamer and his prophecies as fairy tales. For one to have stood on the barren shores of Britain when Caesar 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 wito 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 irlory of the American republic, it would be only a story half writren or a picture dimly painted, with all the splen? dors of coloring left out. I do not believe that any mind can have even the faintest conception of what our nation will be and will accomplish in the coming centurns, if we are true to ourselves and our heaven appointed destiny. When we look backward to the 4th of July, 1776, and see thirteen colonies struggling with the most powerful government "on thc 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. The progress we have made, the government we have built up, the nation we have cre? ated, all seem like fancies, and we are really lost in amazement at the contem? plation. Today seventy-six millions cf 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 the altar. And as the centuries roll on thousands of millions will celebrate this anniversary, and their hosannahs of freedom will echo and re-echo throughout the earth, and all nations will be prepared to take up the refrain. The day of man's deliverance has come, liberty and 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 and 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 as that which confronted the Israelites, and the encouragement offered us is the world as our promised land, where we are to plant the seeds of freedom and christian? ity and labor to fructify and enrich them, until they shall grow up and 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 ns. and if we are true to duty and destiny it will bring us into the promised land of our hopes aad rewards. Such a contemplation is bewildering, and yet if we read th? *>igns of the times correctly, we are as a nation moving on to such a destiny. The great; events in the future of our republic can be predicted with some de? gree of certainty. One of the pre-eminent events will be a union of the English speaking race, in which Anglo-Saxon ideas of liberty and christian civilization will become predominant, and finally control the politics, the policies and com? merce of the world. There may not be -any political alliance between the republi? can United States and monarchical Great Britain, but there will be 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 be possible to disseminate throughout the earth the spirit of liberty now permeating the entire Anglo-Saxon race. In time the prophecy of the last century that Europe would be? come republican or Cossack will be ful? filled. The Eastern question of to-day is the beginning of the final struggle. With a union of the English-speaking peoples the despotism of Russia will be destroyed, and ali 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 in one common and patriotic purpose, to secure universal human freedom and through, it to unite the race of man in 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 the nations of Europe, including Great Britain, have so dense a population, that avery 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 be effectually stopped by similar measures as to our own food exports. The retaliatory measures now threaten? ed by Russia wilmot be carried out for this reason. Ru.^a- 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 States, and it 1? now a question of diplomacy, which is solved so far as the threats of Russia are concerned. The time was when London 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 ia 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;itie3 of gold to Europe, the bal? ance of trade has been so greatly in excess of the payment of such indebtedness that the gold reserves 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 in existence is only about three thou? sand million dollars, if we sell for gold all that we sell, and buy for gold all that we 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 Ha-cue to the Thames. . As the United States now holds this position, she is rap? idly transferring it from London to New York. When this transfer is complete. England will be the first country to com? plain that there is not sudicient geld wita which to conduct thxi business of tLe worid, and will ask to have restored a bi metallic basis. Another event will be the assumption by the United States of rhe obligation of ar? biter in all international d?-putes. Her commanding political and commercial in? fluence will insure the concession of thia 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 interna? tional peace tribunal, and actually led in the deliberations at the Hague. In this world's pacific convention t e govern? ments representing the English-speaking peoples exercised a controlling influence. This pacific action on the part of Russia and other nations was a recognition of the coming ascendancy of the .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 amonte the European powers. The inevitable ten? dency of this recognition of our growing power and influence as ft nation is to make the United States the arbiter in the international disputes of the near future; When this consummation, devoutly to be wished, is realized, the peace and rapid progress of mankind will be assured. The Anglo-Saxon peoples have always pro , moted the 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 "ne promised mil lenium. 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 borne to every laud. With the -Atlantic and Pacific joined by the Nicaraguan canal her sails will whiten every harbor, and sea, and ocean, and lake, and her commerce will be the com? merce of the world. With her natural advantages, her undeveloped ' resources and her hundreds of millions of inventive and progressive population, she can defy efforts of the other nations to rival , her productions and trade, and to snatch from her the crown of commercial supre? macy. Another event of transcendant import? ance will be the complete triumph of the gospel of Christ through the achievements of tue Anglo-Saxon race. With the star spangled banner of the United States in consort with the flag of the British empire floating in every harbor and ocean of the globe, all peoples will be aroused from their heathen sleep of sixty centuries and Drought to a knowledge of the true God. These flags represent all the substantial human progress in the ages past, the highest and best civilization founded upon the moral law, governments the most per? fect ever instituted, and the true spirit of f human freedom. Before the aggressive power and influence they exercise, effete systems of civilization and religion will crumble and fall, and all the heathen nations will join in hosannahs to the one true and living God. It was never designed that individuals should fight singly the battles of the cross; All they can accomplish by individual ef? forts is to convert individuals to the true : faith. It is the mission of nations .ta achieve fruitful victories under the. ban? ner of the cross and spread christianity.1 Paul labored and preached all over the known world in his time, but it was the conquering banner of Constantine sup ported by all the power of the Roman em? pire that crystallized results and made effective the 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 heathen nations, and fulfilling the prophecy that all peoples and tongues sh all bow and worship the true God. This; work of the evangeliza-; . tion of the 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, opport unity and our appointed destiny, we will be the favored national instrumentality to fight the decisive hat- - tie of Armageddon, and to achieve the final and complete victory for Christi? anity. We cannot as a nation avoid these sac- - red obligations imposed upon us. 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 be for bur nation and for the Anglo-Saxon race, with i one language, one civilization, one chris? tianity, 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 lt was designed to accomplish, and the nations will pursue in hrrmony thei arts of peace and the path of happiness, and thus enjoy the full fruition of the efforts of man for six thousand years. A PRESIDENT NOT AFRAID TO TRUST EX COXFEDERATES? Fellow-citizens, one more word and lam done. This is not the place or time where politics and persons should be discussed. The war witn Spain, if it meant nothing more, has been worth ten times the blood and treasure it costin reuniting this coun? try. We had a President in the White House who was not afraid to trust ex Confederates. He not only spoke lovingly of our dead, but he trusted the command of the armies of the United States and the honor of this country to ex-Confeder? ates. Lee, Wheeler and our own gallant Butler were honored equally with Grant, Logan and Harrison. On this anniversary day. we can rejoice not only at the liberty 5ranted us under the declaration made on uly 6th, 1776, but we can thank God that we are now a united people, and that our house is no longer divided against itself. From the rockbound coasts of Maine to the Pacific Golden Gate; from Superior's crystal waters to |the evergreen shores of the Mexican sea. brothers are we all, proud of tb e stars and stripes whether we come from the rising or setting sun, from the bleak prairies of the Dakotas or vtbe sunny slopes of the Carolinas, content to rest beneath its folds from the dawning of the morn, when the earth is wrapped in gray, to the eventide, when the skies don t he blue. A Feast. An old darky who lives in the thick? ets across the river came to Memphis one day to get his pension check cash? ed. After receiving his money, which amounted to $11. the old ex-slave saun? tered down Front street to a produce house and bought three crates of cab? bages. When they were delivered at the wharf late that afternoon, the old man was there and received them with a mouth watering in anticipation of the good time ahead. "Whut yer gwine ter do wid dem cab? bages?" inquired the negro dray ma a who delivered them. "Eat 'em," was the quick response. "I'ze bin free 40 years, and dis is de first time I'ze had de money to buy 'nuff cabbage. I'ze gwine ter eat cab? bage till I furgit de way ter my mouf." -MemDhis Scimitar.