The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-20
FRIDAY, DECEMBER M 1895
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Continued from tho Fourth P1ge)

peet 1t to be conceded without resist ance,
 Or again, are we confronting a great World-robber, a despoilcr of the weak, a menace by her aggressions to the worlds peace and progress? That Is a common but strangely narrow concep- ton of BuJain's place, She has her sins of aggression to answer for--ask the Indian and the negro whether she is the only sinner But taking the great Eugltsh-spellling people as a whole, in both its brapches--its land hunger, its genius and passion for col onl2ation, has been one of the most benelieent forces of history, English colonIsts, our fathers, planted on this continent their laws, their liberty, their religion Roughly they drove out the savage, fercely they Wrestled with France and built the noble sister do- minions of the United States and Can ada. The English merchant and sol dter conquered India, beat France again from that field, and, not without oc- casiOnal harshuess and injustice, has given to its two hundred millions a social order, a safety, a peace, which they never knew before. England holds Egypt, by questionable tenure, but the l Egyptian peasant, for the first time in countless centuries, is ruled by the | law instead of by the lash. The Eng fish colonist has planted 8 great free | empire in Australia, where social ad- vance and the laborer's cause move forward with swift pace. In Africa, in Asia, in the islands of the sea- yea, and in Guiana, the same masterful people are establishing a civilization whose type on the whole is the highest in the world,-the civilization of the self-gov- erning, progressive, serViceable Eng lish-speaking race.
 Our branch of the family has been doing a like work over our own do- main. We, too, have wrought often roughly, sometimes wickedly,--have en- shaved the negro and Wronged the h. dian and robbed our sister republic, Mexico. But or our worst sins there has been stern purging, and broadly speaking, we have built and by God g grace shall go on building, vast. peaceful and happy home for Gods chil- dren. One special and sublime oppor- tunity Is ours,-to lead the world from war toward peace. While the nations of Europe are in tragic entanglement, which over-task the bravest and wis est-While one great barbaric power is oVerSihadowing Europe and Asia, and the unspeakable Turk rends his help less victim, and mutual fears and sus- picions, ambitions and alarms, hold the other powers in a paralysis of inaction which may any day dissolve in a con- vulsion of strife,-the United States with not one dangerous neghbOr at it's doors, with insignificant armament with record of valor which commands the worlds respect, and with a free dom from military burdens which is the envy and despair of Europe,-this, our country, should be the worlds leader in peace as she has been the worlds leader in freedom.
 To justify 9 course which may in. volve the breaking of peace, we should have a cause not only just, but so mo. mentous as to outweigh the horrors the crimes. the savagery, of a grea1 war Assume that England is quite wrong in refusing to arbitrate every thing, that we have somehow got a right to make ourselves supreme judge in the quarrel--is it wise to as sert that right with unsheathed sword Is not a calm protest and a quiet watch fitness of events the course which bes becomes us? If any vast wrong shal be perpetrated. any crime against hu manity which calls to earth and heaver for redress, we shall know it withou any special commission. Time enougl then to strike or to threaten. But Tt one really apprehends any such eX treme provocation. At the most it is doubtful question of a small strip o territory. Back of this trivial question no great principle can be shown, nt vital right that should for a momen be weighed in the balance against tn evils of war.
 The present as a time to challengt . EEgland-and the presidents recon mendation means a direct challenge, blow in the face--the present time i well chosen from a narrowly Selfisl standpoint. England, at peace else where, would have with her superiO armament prodigious advantage Ou seacoast would be powerless agains l IiEI navy, anu filt ilis9 nus htht Lt't | . upon peaceful commerce would be Ou / only reprsal. But England stand tense, with eye and ear and nerve ant muscle strained to meet the pOssibl crash in the east. Do we want t avail ourselves of such an opportunity
 When the only European power whicl shows any strong motive of humanit, ! toward Armenia, the one people whicl | visibly shares with our own the com
 mon thrill before great Wrong-whe 1 she is begirt with jealous rivals, an
 sore tasked and perpleXed. is this
 time for this nation to bark at he heels? "Blood is thicker than water, . seid the American captain, when h laid his ship into action beside a Brit
 sh warshp against a barbarian fot
 Has the blood of our common civiliza
 ton and Christianity grown cold in ou
 veins?
 All the bad passion of false glor! 0 lust of conquest. vanity to ruffie anon - the fighters, partisan spites and riva
 ries, have been rousing an evil feve
 among our people. Some too narro
 interpretation of the occasion, some lac
 of statesmans broad vision, has cal
 ried the president suddenly to the fror - of the aggressive movement. Let tH
 better sense of the whole people |