Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-27
SPIRIT OF THE WEST
ExempIified in Speeches Of
Senators on the Cuban
Question.
Remarks OF Cannon Of Utah
on the Senate Reso-
luton.
He Arraigns the Money
Changers in the
Temple.


Changers In the
Temple.
One Of the best spssches in the United
STATES senate on the Cuban resolution
vas mads By Senator Frank Cannon Of
Utah. The western senators were the
most active in their efforts TO get the
resolution through and the spirit Of
thsir discussion was self reliant, brave
and truly American, in strong contrast
with the commercial, hesitating and tory
like actlon Of some OF the New England
senators. Mr.. Cannon, among other
things. said:
III it be Jingoism to desire that the
United States shall stretch out the arm
Of its power and seize that mad dog
Wsyler, the captain general of Cuba, the
rasisher of women, the assassin Of men
and the crucltier of children; if it be
Jingoism to hope that no longer will We
write words of oowardlce in chapters OF
American history, then u ,OOO, 900 Ameri-
cans are Jingoes The remaining 263,-
600 Of our population are some Of them
engaged in trade and in counting houses;
. few Of them, q very few. thank heaven,
are IN newspaper Offices, and few, still
fewer in number, but alas, greater in
power, are in the senate OF the United
States.
.This building should be the very
temple Of human liberty. Yet the
money changers, Judging from the
speeches Of Senators Wellington and
Hosr, we're 10 the temple.
1--WE are told we cannot stand alone.
Then We have fallen into doddering old
aes. We could stand alone more than
i century ago. We cannot stsnd alone,
bnt must bs enmeshed by the monarch
- q Europe for the support Of our falt-
erin1 and senile steps to the grave? II
we Sannot stand alone, we had better
blot ont the stripes Of white from the
flae and put In the yellow Of Span. We
had better blot out the ground of blue
and put IN the black of Germany. We
cannot stand alone when We are the
most prosperous, the most intelligent,
the most industrious nation under the
sun! The only thing needed:to enable
Dc to stand alone pstrloticslly, politically,
commercially, financially, ls little more
Of the Jingoism which has fallen into
disrepute in this body since the 4th day
OF last March. We cannot stand alone?
Yet Mulhall. the English statistician,
indulges In our behalf in little OF that
bluster condemned on yesterday. He
says we are the greatest nation under
the sun; that we have more energy than
Germany, Great Britain, and France
combined. We had better stand alone,
weak though we may be, until the end
of our work, when God will blot US out
as in His providence he has blotted out
other failures.
"What We need more than tariff laws
or currency reform in this country, is q
revival OF the spirit of unity among the
people. This would come with the de-
claration that the United States is para
mount in this hemisphere, consecrated
to human liberty.
"Mr. President, there is higher ground
than even our right to pass the JOINT
resolution. There is the ground OF our
duty to pass it, The senator whose utter
ances IN this body concerning the army
are usually accepted as conclusive tells
us we are not prepared for war. We are
better prepared tor war in the measure
OF the generation today than We are pre-
pared for that deadly silent dlslntegra-
tion Of the republic which follows fast
upon cowardice. II Spain were to declare
war again4 US because OF any act OF
justice on our part we would be twice
armed. We owe a duty to this hemis-
phere and toward all the worlda duty
which We must pay. Above lnternation-
al law, above presidential prerogatlve.
mercial interests of the United States
stands the immutable law OF retribution.
The people OF this country, the lnheritor
OF tOo IEe0 GuOuSQt VI HiA tuo dkeS TOiieu
and crystallized into one for our we'll
being, cannot aviod the solemn obliga-
tion which they owe. Senators may
plan and man may plot for commercial
advantage, but il We fail to discharge
the duty which we owe behind US will
stalk unerring vengeance.
Mr.. President, Cuba is lost. to Spain.
The first place on which the Italian nav
igstor landed will be the last on which
che will set her clovep hoof. She will
be banished from the island, and with
her will 60 the last tyranny that infests
the Western hemisphere. It We shall
do our duty We shall aid Cubs in throw
ing Oh the yoke. Spain has violated
every treaty obligation to us. She has
made war upon our citizens. That which
che hss done BY one citizen in the dark
ness Of . dungeon she would have done
by oil our citizens il she bad had the
power.