Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1915 — Looking to the Future. [ARTICLE]

Looking to the Future.

We are to consider that nations like Rome, France, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, hare gone forward* by the TniiiAnntwm—the thousand years. We hare not yet grown into our name. We are a nation in our small cloth ea. America! It is already—(dating from 1898) —something bigger than the United States, tWe are even more fortunate than Rome, for if It be nature’s Intent to widemour hire, and if it would in any way conciliate the In-dlan-Spanlsh and Indian-Portuguese of the South, we could wisely and without humiliation abandon our’shipdark Vespucius and accept our captain’s name of Columbia for our huge portion of the western world. Columbia may become the gem of the oceans. Six seas may lap her beaches. —John McGovern, in National Magazine.