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Show A Winsome Picture. Could the picture of our country just now be made Into a panorama and exhibited to the outside out-side world It would supply to those nations the strongest argument to keep the peace with us ever presented. Thousands of locomotives, over 200,000 miles of railroad, would be seen carrying the season's harvests to market. Oceans of grain, millions of bales of cotton moving east, to feed our people in tho Eastern cities, to supply textiles to tho Eastern, mills, and the surplus emptying Into the holds f "BB6tCiHBhipiro"do like service to the outside needy world. How impressive wotha be this long, endless procession upon tho ploture. Next, long lines of great steamers would be descending the lakes carrying ores to the great smelters and steel works, and the legend written under this would be that our country makes one-third of the world's steel. On the picture should be represented the relative rela-tive size of our country and the countries of the strong nations of Europe. A good feature would bo a procession of the states, one after the other, from Maine to California, with the figures of their annual produots below them. Maine would show her lumber and fishing yield; Massachusetts Massachu-setts and Connecticut their manufactures; New Ydrk her multifold products; so would Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Ohio; Indiana, her coal and grain; Illinois and Iowa, mountains of corn; Kansas, her millions of wheat; Texas but Texas would simply sim-ply reveal an empire bigger than France or Great Britain and ' loaded with all the products of a soml-tropjc zone. Then us they climb tho Rockies beyond, the respiration of hoisting engines would be heard; shining metals would load the trains; the roar of irrepressible life would fill the air. On tho West coast tho picture would bo ot rare fruits, unequalod forests; broad acres ot fertile fields; fishing fleets, and scenery so beautiful beau-tiful that tho Eastern world would stand In awe before it. And tho legend would read that all these people peo-ple speak a common language; with all their diversified di-versified interests and industries they have a common pride in and common hope for native land, knowing that no other land was ever so blessed as ours, no other land was ever so panoplied pano-plied in power. The only wonder would I that such a land I1 . '1 should stop at the ocean's shore; that year after iH year he should depend upon tho outside world to :H carry hoi;; exports and imports; that In foreign 9 ports tM 'flashing of our sovereign flag should bo !H so seldom seen. Sorely tliltr hi our nation's reproach, especially . H when from Paul Jones to Captain Clark of the H Oregon tho world has never shown more splendid sailors than ours. |
