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Show Our Opportunity WE are told, and can easily understand that it is true, that the president has some most perplexing questions confronting him. One with Germany, one with Austria, one with Great Brlt ain and the everlasting Mexican muddle. There is still another more important than all the rest. That is how to so adjust national affalis as to permit the swiftest, safest and most effective advancement of our own country. It is the central government's business to remove all possible obstacles ob-stacles from the enterprise of the people; to put no obstacles in their path. Peace will come in Europe after a while and with a weight of debt which will be a mortgage on the toll of the people for quite two generations genera-tions to come. Perhaps one or the other side will emerge triumphant tri-umphant and aggressive, but the prospect is that it will eventuate in a drawn battle and a long contention over the settlement. In the meantime eastern and southern South America is expanding very rapidly and to secure the exchange of trade with those states should be the real struggle on the part of our country. We ought not only to obtain that trade, but to obtain it in a way that would amount to a much closer walk between those people and our own Within the coming ten years a full hiilllon of our young men should find homes there and profitable occupation, and could this be brought about they would not fail to obtain a directing influence in affairs there. Men learn mostly by example and experience what to do. Germany has not naturally a rich soil and but limited resources. At the close of the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war she was poor in money, and had neither a navy nor merchant marine. Thousands ,of her people were emigrating to foreign countries coun-tries annually. But her schools were fine and many of them most practical and some of her factories were turning out most finished products. Her statesmen used the great Indemnity obtained ob-tained from France to establish a merchant marine ma-rine and to build more factories. She promised her merchants that if they would establish trading trad-ing posts in foreign lands, German ships would visit them regularly and that they need have no fear that this promise would be broken. Her trade was at fir- mostly barter, but she managed with the ba to secure likewise the surplus money of the countries she traded with. In1 the meantime she trained all her young men o be H soldiers, which was at the same time the. 'best H possible training of them for all the duties of'clt- H izenshlp. She laid a tariff on what her people H raised, reasoning that if because of 'the tariff H some articles were made to cost a little more than H they otherwise would, the money would all be H spent at home and remain at home, and more of H her people would have work. B Then more factories and ships were needed B and though her population was rapidly increasing, B fewer and fewer of them were seeking foreign B lands for homes. B She founded valuable colonies and built a navy ! B and in the meantime acquired such wealth that B last year she looked upon the conquest of Europe B with confidence. "All that she accomplished in forty years, on a territory, a little larger than Call- M fornia, a little smaller than Texas. H It seems to us that if anything can be learned i from experience and example, Germany's . work H during the past forty years ought to point the way for our president and congress to follow.' H |