Show WEALTH WAITS THE GARNERING to every man there will come hla his dally daily bread in answer to his dally daily prayer though it come from the mill ing of wheat or be the salmon caught at the falls ot of the spokane without let or hindrance from any power of 0 earth if there Is food in plenty in one region as by the fall fal af t an avalanche down a mountain it will cc certainly seek consumption in another region and this the american boy and girl owe to the good providence and to the brave men who made this country one and have kept it one L it Is too much the blindness of our time to speak as if such a simple business a dally daily food came to us as a matter of course there Is indeed a careless habit in which americans often speak fourth of july orators and street corner braggarts brag garts mike alike talk of the natural products of this country almost in the tone of the emigrants who expect to pick up a doubloon upon the sidewalk one Is tempted to ask such braggarts brag garts why the country did not produce such wealth years or years ago why was dakota then a desert why were the hills of alabama only a hiding place for a few thousand creek Ind indians lans why did they not forge the iron under their feet why did not the iroquois in western new york pick from their trees the peaches and the pears such as have been growing there this autumn the answer Is this all the wealth of america comes to her from the work of her men and women the victory which yields it Is their victory it Is the victory of spirit con matter it comes in the dally daily miracle of dally life where children of god led by god taught by god alive in his life and fellow workmen with him carry out his designs and subdue the earth it Is ne neither ither sensible nor grateful to speak of teeming gra granaries narles of increasing trade of new mines of oil of iron or of gas as if these s were wealth in themselves they are only wealth when man strikes the rock and its waters flow and this man must be not the savage man who cares only for his own personal appetite it must be man the child of god cod seeking a future bettor better than today determined to bring in a nobler age than that which he lives in edward everett hale |