Show A NATION M U einie IlE rilEnT in the tha paris tile the other day bad an article on all the T development ol of the united states and has this exclamation oh I 1 nl at what a paco pace bho goos america tho tha now KOY york it and says true it Is AT sho goes nt at a rapid pact pace but pray take notice monsieur that her pace is steady and turc sure as well as rapid it Is pleasant to see sec how holy that pacer covers tho the field ilela leow bow she looks as she goes and how well assured she Is as sho she bears bean be her head boad aloft Is that true mr sun of courso course v vili hero cro sixty millions of people are at mork in ili a free field bold there must be ba a rapid pace where all are going tuil p 1 I where none ore are curbed cm bed by excessive taxation or by st standing ardIng ar armies inies whore mhora ml all askell of any ono one is that wulla 10 doing i v hat lie ho pleases lie he will please not u with III the right of arid and yet it il seems to vis lis that not lot miny many americans comprehend their country not many of them tho the position lion that ihal that country marples ou mAu ples aad all moro morn or less lass have au an awo of powers which ire aro int in blier imagination beyond abat lilt thy really ire are all around the abo office of uio sun still chero hero onu donld think there are brigil men luen cholla who are capable ca capable palblo business men incisi ct thorn their thoughts are in grooves they have not the spirit to lo lin lift their eyes and nd see that II if wo we as a people would all our resources wo we could in a twenty years move the iho commercial capital of 0 tho the world across the atlantic to that same city the stat hii shines for or nil all there are arci too a great many snobs there who have been across tho the so sea a two or three times and have bave boon been over ever since apologizing for the misfortune of having baying been born americans they have their clothing made beyond the water they boy affect the ways of the mon men beyond tho the water when it they would but turn their eyes they would see sea that there Is more natural grace more apparent manhood hood more character in ili sight more courage and strength and self respect in a single co cow boy of the plains than in ill a dozen doica of those snobs of london wo would not have our english friends discounted they are a great people but they became great not by imitating tile iho weaknesses of other nations but by creating a peculiar strength of their own and that Is what we would lola hat americans do wo we would havo have them look up and say wo ito teed feed our sixty millions of 0 people and have a surplus of food for halt of 0 europe beside we raise a fabric which supplies all our looms and which at the same time half the tha looms of 0 europe depend upon standing ondine st these products product of tho the land the mineral output from our mines is greater la in value than all the tha farmers raise and so with our millions steadily increasing by natural causes and with of the strong mon men and bright women of the old world coming to 10 join us annually it Is a clear caso case that it wo iva are but great enough to fill ell our place in the world it cannot bo be a quarter of a cati century tury more until every other nation of the earth ancient and modern mohorn will bo be but second class compared with ours true we WB are moving on at a mighty pace but wo we are carrying many a deadweight As long as out our children understand the geography of groat great britain bettor than they do that of their own country we wa are distracting their attention from what they ought to bo be considering as long as our strongest business men fall down la in fear the moment anything they please to do Is not approved by the bus business loess men beyond tha ilia soi soa so i so long wo we show that within us ua there Is a weakness which Is unworthy our place and our age it if americans could only once get to understand tho the full significance of what attaches to american citizenship iz enship then we would move on at adoll a hilll more rapid pace and the forwald forlai d march bill il bo infinitely grander than it isnow now Is s |