Show the C citizen I 1 tiOU of 1110 T J states 0 I 1 over fifty millions T thia h 0 e aa to eine little or nothing fifty rift millions ot of niKi inna indicates the bihy ability to raise raise in a a crude cruda way kouo ot of the staple irti clea ol of life ulle an plucky fighting force wo art aro speaking ol of the manses ritty fifty millions mil liona ot of citizens citizen ot of tho the united states signifies anti hero here wo ate aio again thinking of the body of the people in it tho the kaat east intelligent mechanical skill well directed industry forethought axil and pru douce in in the west weak productive pro justna power addressed in the main to tho the development of af natural resources and aad a love of liberty guided by a reasonable knowledge of 0 rod mil an almost universal to the morall moral anil ana political oal law in the th main anu domed from an it is in still by the principles and traditions of tho the last east iu tho the bouab a population which taken as a whole is n industrious as an piling materially moro more valuable than the same bame lin cimbora tabors to puro pure agriculture ri in ia almost any part of tho the world not only Is in there miyo mental and industrial activity horo hero pvn else elme where bat the opportunity tos for progress la is indefinitely greater perhaps in ia no country other this is tho the small landed proprietor more independent or of comfortable than la in Frat fration ioe bat in france the land iona laws prevent that final accumulation of capital which tile farmer in ia tho the united states is ia so BO casily capable ot of obtaining tho the farmer of england scotland and ireland is merely a tenant in england and Irelan dj a tenant at will thre there is no comparison save BATO one in favor of tho the man ma iu III the tha united lits stites des who owns la in lea fee simple his ono one hun dred and sixty sores aares of land anil and the british larmor farmer who pas rent and a rent bond bona upon taxes ps paid 6 d by the tha landlord tor for the tha support of the poor the army and navy and aad institutions tho the Amez american ican farmer does not nob carry it u soldier on his back again the ho american Amor ioan citizen who is earming his iia daily broad bread by his bis daily labor is encouraged to effort and economy by the ibo knowledge tat his hia were support as to living of his children will enable thorn to obtain an edco education aaion at i a merely nominal expense to himself tho the idea in a his mind is that hij hii will be better prepared to grapple with tho the world than ho be was when he bo started out oat to a life whatever mistaken mista kea moy may have been made or whatever inordinate expect eions here hera and there entertained true it is that material and montal mental progress Is ut at once desirable and attainable their is is no sullen bullon despair there is no fiina feeling of oppression of the tb government no age banao bonao of the uselessness of en deavor on oil the other othar hand band the air cam stances aro are such snob that very naturally wo we are tempted to a sanguineness of disposition which sometimes Bome timea leads ind ISM nal failure fifty milto lions of people sach much as this nation contains situated tail as we are with the continent as a homo home and such a continent with the varied races of europe represented by their most moat enterprising mea mas with the doctrine doo trina of equal political at rights rights imbedded embedded im bedded in tho the popular mind and heart with education edno ahon as the corner stone atone of the social governmental fabric with religions sentiment Benti ment diffused among nil all the people however diverse in its ita manifestation uro aye the vanguard of a people whose numbers camb eiB wealth and influence upon the nations ot of the earth may be vaguely imagined but cannot be compates com computed patey grateful arid and earnest and honest ought we wa to be journal |