The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-02
THE PULPIT IS FOR WAR
Butte Volunteers Listen to Ser
mons on the Crisis.
A JUST AND RIGHT CAUSE
Intervention Is a Plain Duty-America
Will Emerge From the War as
the Champion of Freedom
Throughout the World.

Several pastors of Butte preached SER
mons yesterday in regard to the Gu
ban war and the coming departure OF
the Montana soldier boys.
Company @ Of the Montana National
guard, Captain Wynne, attended serv-
ice in a body yesterday morning at the
Mountain View NJ. +. church. a SER
mon appropriate to the occasion was
preached by the pastor, Rev. T.. B.
Lounsbury. Mr.. L%ounsbury said:
The uba world. struggling for ex-
%istence. is pre-eminently the question of
the hour. Why so? IL is not of US. Ii
may be. as stated by A. q. Lawton. that
we have suffered heavy pecuniary loss.
for half the industry OF the island is
controlled by American capital. We
have been spit upon. ill-treated and en-
viously allude To by Spanish power
because Of our expressed sympathy, but
hone of these things moved US. But.
having been brought to see that the
Cuban people have been u~njustly OPP
pressed by the government of Spain,
this great republic has pronounced the
procedure of that power barbarous.
We have seen multitudes of her Gu
ban subjects rapidly xterminated by
starvation, fire and sword. But this in
humanity is nothing new for Spain. In
justice. oppression, cruelty, robbery and
butchey have marked her course for
more tina 400 years. while, at the same
time, she has claimed to be the most
Catholic N Christian of all nations.
Her wars are a record of perfidy and
cruelty. worse than was ever practiced
by the most degraded savages Her re-
ligious crusades have been marked by
all the torments which the imagination
J Of a damon naiuhf inx.epf Enr hundreds
OF years her historical pathway is
, stained with a trail of blood. Why is
the inquisition termed Spanish inquisi-
ton? Because Spain so increased its
tortures that IL took that name. Ana
here we are. on the eve of conflict with
her. solely because of her inhuman
treatment of her own child.
That struggle may be likened unto
our struggle for independence. When
we recount the disadvantages under
which the colonies won their unparal-
leled victory il seems a miracle. But
We're they greater than the ~disadvan-
tages of the Cubans? No. The most
terrible shackles have been upon them
ignorance and an iron creed. The
church has so accustomed Cubans To
obedience to unjust authority that their
present resistance has not been as eff
fective as il might have been. The
very troubles which now promise war
between the republic and Spain are
Romanish fruits. The church raine
Spaniards in the cruelty against which
Cuba now revolts. | would that we
knew half that Maceo knew of the des-
peration and bloody struggles of his de-
termined band. We have not begun To
honor him yet. We refer with COM
mendable pride TO our heroes of IS
Patrick Henry. Washington, John
Adams. What OF Maceo? Like the
memory OF American heroes to Ameri-
cans. so will the memory OF Maceo be
perpetuated i'm the hearts of the people
of Cuba. If reports be true. how foully
he was brought To death! 1t is said:
DIR. Zertucha. for O,000. betrayed him
to his death.' General Weyler was COM
PEELED To issue a denial of the report.
We'll, what Of our delay for many
months of Cuba's implorings and earn
est appeals for American assistance?
We blamed the powers in Europe for
not stopping the slaughter, even If by so
doing they had To wipe Turkey from
the map of nations. But here, within
100 miles of our shores. greater cruelties
have been perpetuated than those prac-
ticed by the execrable Turk. | do not
prsume tn be IN authority on these
/ great national questions, but ! VIII Ven
ture to say il was providential that the
powers or any one of them, did not
III AllNt NV nv Va ~ -
test. At that time their commercial re-
lations were such. national competition
50 keen and the spirit of envy running
so high. that "A European war would
have been inevitable. and the slaughter
of human life would have been appall-
ing beyond a parallel. In our case IT
IL different. We stand comparatively
alone, removed by thousands of miles
from eastern powers. We are independ-
ent. Cuba is our near %neighbor. We
caf stand i'm our door and. with the aid
OF a telescope, almost see her shore. We
delayed long. We respected the rules OF
International law and withheld our
hands. Did we delay too long? We
might have been waiting still but for
the Maine disaster which more than
ANYTHING else opened our eyes To the
inhuman nature of the struggle and our
almost plain duty OF Intervention. our
president was sharply criticised, both
for his delay and message.
That Maine disaster was an appall-
ing affair. Some say IL was an acct
dent. But l believe the general con-
viction is hat its destruction was pre-
arranged. The awful work was DELHI
erately and fiendishly executed. Some
have been daring enough to insinuat,
that General Weyler was the chief spirit
in the hellish conspiracy. What should
be done with such a character"
Rev. Sherman Hill preached To .
large congregation at h Christian
church. His topic was war. and NJ
handled the subject In an able man
ner. He took as his test. He was call
ed faithful and true, and in righteous
ness he doth judge and make war; and
in part. said:
I'VE can arrive at a correct conclu
i. sion regarding the present wal only IA
we view IL from three angles. We mus
consider what Spain. America ana Cubi
, each have one to provoke IL.
I'm the mind of all lovers Of justic
/ Spain stands as the offending party
She has caused the war and against he
must be recorded whatever of i'll ma
5 accrue TO humanity. On account OF he
hardness i'm ~espousing the means q
civilization and enlightenment sh
stands as the most conspicuous exam