The San Francisco call., 1898-04-23
ATTENTIONl FORWARD, MARCEL

| 'ENAClI4 and courage are the often proved characteristics of Americans In three foreign
 wars of magnitude arms have been vic torous. No other people have made such record ot military success shown greater se-denla and sacrifice Americans are bred and trained in per sona independence During the Civil War it hap pened time and again in action that when all the commissioned officers of formation had fallen a private would spring from the ranks and give the order for another charge.
 Walking in the ways of peace for generation, our people suddenly put on war harness and, when their fighting blood is up, tactics occur to them spon- taneously and they subject themselves to military discipline and acquire the art of war; that they to be seasoned soldiers before their faces are bronzed by marches and battles.
 The military enterprise at whose beginning the country stands sternly at attention" is of such a nature as to make prospectvey the greatest in his tory as its purpose is the most unselfsh. Refusing to acquire territory by conquest to recoup our selves by any reprisa whatsoever, we are entering struggle to vndicate the principle that when na- ton ceases to govern well it shall govern at all, and shall withdraw its flag fleets forces and jurisdiction, and leave the people to form their own government, with freedom to enjoy mans inalenable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
 Our fleets the and the land thunders to the tread of our armies, to enforce in the world enlarged view of the rights and responsibilities of nations. If we win, we will, will have written into history something that will never die The principle that government, whether 1t derive its just power from the consent of the governed or not, must found 1t at least in the happiness of its people will have been established and along with it the right of strong people, governing themselves, to strike down flag that represents the misgovernment of others without absorbing them itself
 This is the first purely altrustic military enterprise the world has We are not going to the help of people who can help us, whose help we will ever need. We are not raising up ally against future in which our strength will need supplementing We don't want an inch of territory dollar of indemnity. Our high purpose IS to emancipate man from evil government. We do not even say he shall be clothed with right of self-government, but that, under whatever form, he is entitled to good government.
 This stupendous enterprise has the solid backing of our people, the providential mission of this republic What prophet standing by our cradle six score and two years ago would have dared foretell what is? Out of the stubborn courage and silent suffering of our Revolutionary sres has come this evolution of the right to compel justice among tue nations, but how the change from that time when
 "In their ragged regimentas
 Stood the old Continentals
 Yielding not"
 to this, when of their steadfast tracks rise ten millions of fighting to vindicate the right of man to good government!
 Compelling forces which none can resist have out lined the cause in which take up arms Our re- sources are vast, but the struggle may consume them IL so, the sacrifice will not be in vain for we Can not fail In failure would be the retrogression of government in every land on earth While our columns march to rendezvous and our fleets walk the waters in this high cause men bend to their tasks under the banners of the nations in every zone Pre- scriptive right claims the fruit of their toil For ter ritorial aggrandzement dynastic expansion they are played as pawns in the gory game of war and if their bones not left to bleach unhonored tbev may go to their huts and turn their faces to the ground again, with profit in conquest and no view of the glorieS they have created
 The crusades were undertaken to recapture for the Christian world the custody of the holy sepucher This enterprise of is to gain for man the right to himself. The republic salues its high mission and ten millions of men drop blow and plane, look to the flag and follow where it leads