AMERICA'S FUTURE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1908, Page 4

AMERICA'S FUTURE.

President Roosevelt has a sublime belief in the future of v the United States. Addressing the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal J Church recently, he gave utterance to j the following notable sentiments: — "No nation in tha world has moro right than ours to look with proud confidence tdwarda the future. No*where else has the experiment of democratic government, of government by the people and for the people, of government based on the principle of treating each man on his innate worth as a man, foeen tried on so vast a seals as with us; and on the whole the experiment has been more successful than anywhere else. Moreover, on the whole, 1 think it can be said that we have grown better and not worse; for if there is much evil, good also greatly abounds, and if wrong grows, so in even greater measure grows the stern sense of right, before which wrong must eventually yield. It would be both unmanly and unwarrantable to become faint-hearted or deppairir.g about the nation's future. Cleareyed and far-sighted men, who an 1 both brave of heart and cool of head, while not for a moment refusing to see and acknowledge the many evin around us, must yet also feel a confident assurance that in the.struggle we shall win and not lose, that the century that has just opened will see great triumph for uur people. Prosperity such as ours, necessary though it be as the material basis of national greatness, inevitably tends to undue exaltation of the merely mate-ial side of the national character; and we must largely rely on the efforts of such men and women as those I am addressing to build up the spiritual life, without which the material life amounts to nothing."