The record-union., 1896-04-05
ADMIRAL MEADE.
Ringing Words Of a Distinguished Amer.
iCan Patriot.
Duty of This Country in Regard
to the Policy Of England
and Spain.

| Before large audience in Chickering
Hall, New York, Rear-Admiral r. w.
Meade, u. S. n. (retired), delivered his
| lecture on 1.-The Caribbean Sea. the
Mediterranean of the Western World
The lecture was held under the auspi-
ces of Lafayette Post, G. A. r., 140, of
which Admiral Meade is Commander
Admiral Meade advanced the PROPOSE
tion that the political future of the Ca
ribbean was menaced unless the steady
and quiet aggressions of Great Britain
were met with firmness by the United
States.
Look at the map" he said, and a map
of the Caribbean region was thrown on
| the screen, ''and see what The Meteor
Flag of England controls in this vast
region. Commencing at British Guiana,
we have the important delta of the Or
| inoco, draining with its hundreds of
affluents an immense region of country,
| teeming with yet undiscovered wealth;
Barbados, Demerara, Tobago, Trinidad
| and st. Lucia stand as sentinels and
| outposts on the great skirmish line to
the east, to say nothing of st. Vincent
and Dominica. What is there left down
| there for the rest of the world? You
will suggest that Venezuela controls
the Orinoco River, but England, owning
| the fertile island of Trinidad, and the
| wide stretch comprising the noble Gulf
| of Paria, virtually controls the mouth
of the Orinoco, and, of course, the fu-
ture commerce of this immense region
| of country
VENEZUELA NOT I'm IT"
Venezuela, indeed. Well, up to date
Venezuela isn't in it,, for what Presi-
dent Crespo may do still remains to be
seen. If you want to get good idea of
the situation, just imagine John Bull
holding New Orleans and Louisiana,
at the mouth of the Mississippi, and
! ask yourself honestly what this Yankee
nation would be likely to do under the
circumstances
But the territory is in dispute, I
hear someone say. Not at ALL Eng
| land has it, the Monroe doctrine and
| arbitration to the contrary notwith-
standing. Who does not know that
England never arbitrates where her an
tagonist is weak? Did you ever know
this old lion to take his paw off any
thing he wanted? He will yield to such
convincing arguments as we urged upon
him between 1915 and 1852, or say
| from 1872 to 1915, but he won't yield to
any other arguments. and don't you for
get it, am not jingo. The Briton
has monopoly of the jingo business.
Jinsp is a word coined in Great Brit
ain, and it expresses the bluff bully
grab when-you-can idea.
FORTIFYING AGAINST UNCLE
SAM
What is at present the political con-
dition of the Caribbean? England
holds all eastern approaches worth hav-
ing, and is fortifying st. Lucia as
coal station-against what Power?
Can't you guess? Do they love us or
our institutions? When they had the
| opportunity in 1861 to show love and
sympathy did they do so? Ask the men
who served in the civil war. Study the
small facts that crop out in any COM
petition or international question, be it
never so small, whether it is a prize
| fight, boat race, an athletic contest or
| even such a fiZZle as the yacht race be-
tween the Valkyrie III and the De-
| fender. They love us children of our
| amiable old stepmother! Oh, yes!
They love our stocks and bonds when
they pay dividends and interest They
love our Western lands when those
| they hold rise in value. Oh, yes, they
certainly love US! And they will just
DIS CeIldiuly take everything WITHIN
their reach.
THAT FAMOUS SHOT.
Great Britain may thank her lucky
star that she first commenced with us
ber game of grab and extortion, and
that there was manhood enough in
America to fire that famous shot that
was heard around the world AS
suredly she will never take anything
on of hnt. p1, bY,t -la{ ID,-
need to know is that all additional ter
ritory on this continent is out of her
reach so long as the United States Of
America continue to exist and the mem
ory of James Monroe is not quite for
gotten.
NO man can be more opposed to war
for mere wars sake than I am. but
there are many things worse even than
war, and loss of national self-respect is
one of these things. God forbid there
should be a war between Great Britain
and the United States, but one or the
other must surely give way. I am
neither a prophet nor the son of q
prophet, but / dare to predict that,
should war come between Great Brit
ain and the United States, the first shot
fired in anger will sound the death
knell of the British Empire
THE WAR IN CUBA.
Cuba next claimed the AdmiraPs at
tention. Cuba" he said, Should stand
in the same relation to Spain as Canada
does to Great Britain. This is a rea-
sonable and just demand, and our Gov
ernment should favor it. Our entire
fleet should be mobilized in the waters
Of Florida Bay; an army of $4,000 men,
regulars and volunteers, should be
called out and mobilized in our Gulf
ports, ready to sail at moments
warning. Then the United States Gov
ernment should notify both Spain and
the insurgents that this bloody and
savage butchery at our doors should
cease; that, right or wrong, we intend
to act as police to suppress dread
full nuisance in our immediate vicinity,
and that an armistice should be i'm
mediately declared by both sides and
autonomy granted to Cuba by Spain.
But if Spain should resist this humane
demand then our fleet and army can
take Havana and proclaim the inde-
pendence Of Cuba as a territory under
the protection of the United States"
1.-The Badge" a song composed for
Lafayette Post, No. 14O by DR.. G. E.
Conterno, was sung by chorus of
male and female voices.
He Took the Credit.
"What magnificent sunsets they have
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