Show HOW GREATNESS CANIE CAME I 1 yesterday a gent iolan contemplating the unparalleled display ubach alch Is being made this week in england as asked ked how the tact act could be explained that eliat england in her little king kingdom doin has been able to stand off fr all ene enemies olles all and alli I to beach iw her commanding place among tile nations or 0 the earth whether it vas superior statesmanship or a mole subtle commercial grasp then than wier notions nations natho nathe poss cis w Ah hat atthe the secret Is tho the result la Is due to many causes the first ne lie take it Is jhb tUnell sh intelligent idea of 0 berly ll jl liberty eray under tinder the law lair coupled with a det erm illation to main fain absolute personal pera onal liberty slid and absolute tree free thought this spit spalt it had been broming fial tor several leveral cent gentles les when if crystallized into fonn in the lle bleat th shalter tha iter Alter vat mas v at 2 years ago next to ilia th chatas atas t as sit BI inherent na llonas integ integrity lity u and nd that spirit ot of self which mit mas sum ilent to uie clie her people tile the I 1 to lo subdue themselves even P the or abound till if favl an lit wand island kingdom and brine being dependent upon trade naturally irom front tile first theril they jiava axe been a building and ad ship balling naso when the new 11 world orld was discovered england seized upon the best part pan ol of north america she he puked up I 1 sands grids here and there alic re then australia malthe and the cape of good hoie tell fell to her ter site ie took india and all al the cigne looked 0 out ut for or strategic egle points tor for both commerce and war thon then came cam the ot of 5 team steam and she ehe tras swift to kutlus e IL 11 AH it tile the I 1 time lime sh he had led the horld lit 1 manu far r s anna and la this site sc vas it as immense I 1 y d by her great grant it fion on and tin and I 1 cout mines JQ lonii aal iid d joaie to t her r sea a I 1 I 1 ports all the th I 1 lime ime too alla h was ready 1 to flight either cither for a principle or for ap 0 ila then again she has ha been blessed by two eras crag of great men the shakespeare era when she founded a new literature anil and the era of 0 the ile last century and ill the beginning of 0 this when she perfected laws that all the world accepts added immense stores to in her literature and when pitt and fox and burke and a host ot of only a little inferior stars made a elaey to 10 awe and charm chann mankind her supremacy dat dalos from waterloo but her great material advancement dates date from 1851 1851 england mas in a pitiable condition condl llon in the twenties and thirties and not much better in the hie fort leg but she had by trade made all her colonies coloni g and the united states heavy debtors debtor to 10 her lie do naturally culturally the gold of california and ot of australia gravitated to her our great war came soon after which life h reb restored to her the or of tile the sea and ever since she really has been busy cutting off coupons coupon the causes that have so retarded our progress tor for twenty years have lidded added immensely to her wealth she has been a creditor nation ours a debtor nation while our have refused to undo the wickedness of 1873 she bhe has been pat tins them on the back ck but she hea haa been collecting interest in dollars each worth two dollars and buying food and textiles wt at CO 60 cents on the dollar silo she has dono done exceedingly uell wc 11 then angland has gained immense pr 1 res ealise Lige by some events not costly in ili a national sense but rounded full with fame such as the defense anti and rescue of duchnow Luc Luch linow now the storming of the fastnesses fast nesses of tile the abyssinian mountains mountain and jungles to 0 a savage kang tor for indigent indignities ties inflicted upon a british citizen and the charge ot of the six hundred the beffeat that these and many a lesser achievement has haa hall had upon the aehl ml peoples of the earth has haa been to fasten the impression that great britain as a military power is invincible today her ter place Is a most enviable one and she him has earned the place no american envies her rather americans exult with mith her but bu there Is a regret that our own statesmen cannot bro ailon their heir horizons and so direct the gifts that have been upon our land as aa to make even great britain by a second rate pon er in the next quarter ot of a century |