The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-04
requires blood-letting; and blood let

requires blood-letting; and blood let
ting 1t will surely have.
mot until man ceases to litigate will
he cease to fight, When courts Of law
are abolished and lawyers are turned
into darninG needles; when journalists
exhcange their functions a. preachers
sometimes exchange their pulpits: when
rival merchants will not permit one an
other to undersell their wares; In short.
when the lion and the lamb have con-
cluded to pool their issues and to lie
down to pleasant dreams, we shall have
that peace on earth, good will to men.
including, Of course. free trade and SAIL
ors' rights, so ardently invoked on this
side Of the ocean by Mr.. Golden and
Mr. Bright, and, on our side. by Mr..
Cleveland, to be applauded and denied,
when opportunity has offered, on both
sides.
WAR NOT THE GREATEST EVIL.
war is certainly a dreadful alterna-
tive. He who has seen 1t. and who
knows what 1t actually means, can
look upon 10 only with horror. But
there are yet greater evils to mankind
than war. whose elimination from hu-
man experience makes the emascula-
tion Of the human species simply a
question Of time: 1t was the heroic
spirit Of the Anglo-Saxon races which
placed England where she Is today, and
her warriors are no more to be for
gotten than her sages-forgotten If at
all at her peril. 1t is to this same mar
tial spirit that the American union
owes all that it is, and on which 1t must
! rely to maintain all that 1t has. 1t Is
certainly true that these two great ma
tions occupy a position strong enough
to rule the destinies Of the world: but
they are not likely to agree upon terms
until Englishmen find as much to thrill
| and exalt them at Mount Vernon as
Americans find to thrill and exalt them
at Stratford on Avon. TIL then.
thanking God that am an Anglo-Sax-
on. and gforying in the achievements
| Of my race. visible everywhere IN this
wondrous land, I must rest upon the
| answer made by John Adams to George
| Ill.,, when the king reminded him that,
having been born an English subject,
| he ought to love England: Sire" said
the sturdy old Republican, "Sire, love
no country except my own"
GREAT AMERICAN FIGHTERS.
II beg that you will forgive me II I
| overstep the limitations as to belliger-
ency-in my case purely abstract-of-
ficially fixed upon an association dedi-
Gated to the noble arts of avarice and
peace. But something may be allowed
to certain peculiarities of the occasion.
Your guest this evening is general. I,
myself, being Kentuckian, have some-
times been called colonel.
If, inspired by the heroic dead, to
whose memory we have drunk, take
leave to hoist the national bunting a
little higher than the Duke Of York s
column, I trail it also in pious homage
toward the dome yonder where lie the
mortal remains of wellington and Nell
son. I certainly do not mean to beard
the lion in his den, nor to twist the
name or the tail Of the noble beast,
when I remind you that We, too, have
in Grant and Sherman and Lee, in
Farragut and Stonewall Jackson.
Anglo-SaxOn soldiers whom English
men should delight to honor Upon
the basis Of that honor, mutual. recipro-
cal, spontaneous and sincere, may Eng
land and America always be, what they
Of right are and ought to be, bone Of
one bone and flesh Of one flesh."