Show I i t 1 I I J EXRASION r t I I EXPANSION I I j 1 The most unanswerable argument I against nntc pension is in the hearts i of the American people and It loses none tOt its potency because It l Is un I svoken When n poor boy brains a life of thrift and Industry and pursues his o work until at middle age he has a full competency enough to provide for all who arc dear to him and to live all his 1 days on a tithe of his Income he does I not stop and devote himself to Innocent Inno-cent enjoyment l He keeps l at work and continues to save because to Tabor and to save have become second nature to him Again it Isn habit of many dogs to turn around four or five times before they Ho down This is because their greatgrtatgTa nc fathers were wolves and had lo tread down the grass to male ml themselves beds Well tho second nature that comes of habit and heredity I ty are both Impelling the American i people onward Tho fathers began on the seashore Behind thorn were but the rolling waters before them l wore only the forest In which the wild beast and still wilder man lurked but with a sublime faith and an energy that only age could tame they went to work Slowly the forests melted away and homes and gardens appeared but I thctoUwas incessant while seven generations gen-erations of great men and women wore out their splendid lives Then they emerged from the forest and entered upon the prairies and then their western west-ern march was accelerated Pioneers pushed through the waste to Oregon others pushed their way to the Salt Lake valley and two years later the great exodus to the Golden coast begun In the meantime new agents had como to their support The deep respirations of tho steam engine were heard first upon the water and then upon the land then laborsaving machinery I ma-chinery began to multiply then the electric telegraph began to make the nations that had been separated by I oceans and mountains near neighbors the perfecting press was a natural evolution evo-lution and appeared because the peo pies of the earth wanted every day the history of the previous day then the electric light began to illuminate the world and the electric motors began to help man in his toll In the meantime 1 the population had from a little nucleus nu-cleus of people multiplied lo 75000000 I the settlements from a little fringe along the eastern sea had encompassed n continent and every mountain top had become n signal station of civilization civiliza-tion The Impelling of the race onward has become hereditary the reducing of means to ends ha become an exact science and to push onward now has j become second nature Can anything stop the progress of such a people Ought anything to stop It The orators will In decrying expansion talk to deaf ears the newspapers that swell notes of fear will be unread And they should I be Skirting both ea oceans and producing pro-ducing the food the textiles the steel of c world offering the example of n system of government which interferes with no man In the exercise of any legitimate le-gitimate right we do not many of us realize what we are to the worlds hopes what place we fill among the worlds peoples Who would clip the eagle wings of such n people Who would stop such a career at the oceans woull slol I shore We have our work to do the limits of the Nations achievements will be bounded only by its courage and the only thing to guard haLt is the doing do-ing of any wrong 7 |