Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-12
WOULD YOU GO 70 WAR?
Lew Wallace Is Going to See If He
Can Organize a Bragade.
But Depew Isn't So Anxious-Gen-
eral Porter Shifts Powder-Alger
Would Take His Two Sons, but
Most Men Would Rather Not
Fight.
Copyright, 1896, by Ryman Interview
Syndicate.)

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Copyright, 1896, by Ryman Interview
Syndicate.)
For my part 1 feel that every man
should set about getting ready for the
worst. 1 will try if regiment or bri-
gade cannot be Immediately organized
in this State. Indiana must not be
laggard in this emergency. Gen. Lew
Wallace's speech at Loyal Legion OF
Indiana banquet.
Mr.. Cleveland has thrown down the
Monroe doctrine as q glove Of challenge
to all the powers of Europe. While 1t
lies upon the ground waiting TO be
picked up the seconds Of the fight are
doing much debating about the propri-
ETY. of tossing it down and its chances
Of being turned into a belligerency.
There are those who would fight and
who want to fight. And there are 9TH
ers who do not want to fight and who
say they never would do so.
ALGER'S FIGHTING SHOES.
One of the principal men who would
fight is Alger, Of Michigan. When in
| terviewed upon the subject of going to
war Gen. Alger happened to be stand
ing in the lobby of a large hotel in
New York. AT the word of war he be-
gan stepping around and marching back
| and forth as though he already heard
the call to arms.
81 am fifty-nine," said Alger, "but
that's young for a warrior. l would
step right out into the ranks and there
would be three Algers in line. l would
take my two boys with me.
"SOme people talk Of sending their
boys to war. l Would't send mine. /
would take them. Thered be three of
US standing like one man. And three
hearts that would outswell their bodies.
We are loyal to the core.
"The result OF the battle would be
ours. / do not say on account of those
three Algers that would be marching
on as one man. But on account of the
whole American nation. The British
couldn't beat us.
"In fighting us the English would be
at a great disadvantage They would
have too many open ports to attack. We
have an immense sea front, and each
sea hole would be guarded by as jealous
gods of land and sea as ever stepped.
LAS a nation We are very intelligent.
We have no section of our country that
is filled with savages, no seaport man
ned by people by lower intellect. We
are all the same Drawn and brain. The
same blood flows in the North as in the
South, in the East as West.
Il do not say that we are better fight
ers than the English. We are of a diff
ferent temperament. They are grand
fellows. l like them and I am not go
ing to draw od!ous comparisons. They
are brave honest-hearted men. But /
viii say that we could lick them.
mo nation under the sun could send
enough troops over here to attack our
ports and take them.
DO you know anything about the
city Of New York? Well, l do. The
city of New York is the loyalist, the
| keenest, the strongest seaport nation
ever possessed. The city of New York
alone could take care Of all the men
England could send over if all were di-
rected towards this port. Look at our
harbor Look at Liberty, with that
torch telling strangers We live here!
Look at our lovely Islands, each holding
a city Of people, all before you reach the
great city!
con the sea England is better than
we. Her navy is greater. But we
! could spoil her commerce speedily. We
could destroy England's pride. Her
tars know the ropes of war better than
Cursor, should say, there are more
sailors there than here. But we could
hold our own all along the line-yes,
| indeed.
THE diplomatic point at issue is the
| Monroe doctrine. I am not studying
the statute books at this minute, but /
will say that as long as such law re-
mains upon the books it should be en-
| forced. If we don't want to enforce it,
let the Monroe doctrine be declared OBJ
sOlete. 1t must not be written there
| and be treated as myth"
GEN. PORTER'S PICNIC.
Gen. Horace Porter was in the private
offices of the Pullman Company when
approached upon the subject Of another
war. His face wore a beaming smile,
and as he opened his letters he sang the
Star Spangled Banner"
ooh, say! can you see by the Gqwn's
early
beg pardon. Can You see a caller
about the Venezuela trouble?'
Can I see a caller? I can, and I viii!
See a caller? I should say so! I'm
happy this morning. I'm thinking
about fight. Do you remember that
march down the Shenandoah when we
all ate mule hash? No, you don't, but
your uncle does.
I'm happy this morning because
see fight again. Do you know" lean
( ing forward confidentially, that there's
one point that has escaped everybody
yet, and that is that we have a million
men alive to-day who know all about
war. You cant teach war to a class OF
young men. They have got 10 go
through it to know about it. There are
thousands and thousands Of men alive
to-day who have been to war and who
know all about getting up a regiment,
marching the boys on and fighting the
other side
There isn't another nation in the
world except the japanese that has this
knowledge. Their wars are too long
past. Ours is recent.
I'm the battle field we Americans are
great men. Yes, great men. If a Yam
kee sees the enemy approaching and
finds himself under fire, what does he
do? He gets down and begins "a
scratch up the dirt, and he makes him
self an ambush. In little while he Is
picking off his men as he wants 10. anc
the poor, unhappy enemy are looking
around for him.