The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-28

IN Che race and say TO mem. L Qld tle
best could to save my fellow-ctt1zens
from these disasters and these burdens
when 1 hear men complain that the
president has given his party in this crisis
a tin1d and hesitating leadership. l cannot
forbear expressing my own satisfaction
that he was great enough in heart and
brain and conscience in che presence OF
public danger to think of his country as
we'll as of his party. and instead Of strut
ting before the world, was willing to be-
come in a real sense the servant OF the
American people. IN that view of our
present surroundings there Is satisfaction
also in the fact that our case, as finally
stated by congress, ds good both in law
and in equity.
II do not predict the size and the cost
of the undertaking in which we are en-
barked, but my conviction is that we will
gain all that we lose and infinitely more.
Two things we have already gained, and
one is the outspoken sympathy of this
great English-speadng race Of which We
are part and another is a larger sense of
the unity of the American people. unity
that has already killed the spirit of sec
tionalsm. taken the poison out Of partisan
strife and brought in the better era Of
American patriotism.
Nor do think that our people will ever
regret the part they have assumed. There
are times in the life of nations when they
move upon impulses so pure that the APP
probation of the national conscience is a
full reward for sacrifices. however griev-
Gus.
such an hour has come to the people
of the United States. putting to silence,
let US hope. the passion OF party politics,
/ and lifting the whole nation above the
/ care of stocks and bonds and lands and
| offices. into the upper atmosphere where
! the hidden things of liberty and civiliza-
ton are brought to light.
''After more than fifty years OF patient
federation, the time had come at last to
make an end to the state of anarchy in
Cuba AS the moment for action ap-
proaches every emotion was subordinated
in the national purpose to the high and
patriotic motivees which mankind every
where must approve.
1--WE have not acted upon a sudden prov
ocation, great or small. Again and again
the nation has ignored it's interests. con-
quered it's sympathies and restrained its
wrath.
1--WE have not coveted SPANS territory.
We have not obstructed her administra-
ton. We have not withheld from her
dynasty or from her people the Offices of
international courtesy and good will.
I'VE have citizens there whose property
has been totally destroyed, their business
broken up and they themselves cast with
out trial into the military prisons Of Ha-
vana or left to beg among the miserable
refugees about Matanzas. Yet we have
consented to negotiate for their relief and
have feebly tried to do with diplomatic
correspondence what other countries are
accustomed to do with shot and she'll
Continuing. Mr.. Dolliver paid an elo-
quent tribute TO the patience and courage
and forbearance Of President Mckinley
under trying circumstances. and declared
that the nations foroearance. the anxiety
to keep peace. born OF neither weakness
nor fear, presented record of nationa
self-restraint that had not escaped thC
attention OF the world at large.
In conclusion. after referring 20 the de-
struction of the Maine and the testimony
taken before the naval board Of inquiry
. the Iowan said:
That testimony. including the unan
swerable witness of the wreck itself. +
now before the world. and II the nationa
indignation has not long since avenges
the CHASTITY crime, it is because ali hearts
have been stirred BY the revelation Of th
crime. sun more ghastly-the atrocitl
which deliberately planned the extermna
ton Of an innocent community. and with
in sight Of our own shores. has turne,
the faIrest landscape of the earth into
hideous spectacle OF cruelty and torture
The despair OF women and men, th
bitter cry % starving children. the ago1ie
OF the living the skeleton OF the dead
these Incredible realities In Spanish var
fare, have driven from the minds OF IN
American people All thought Of them
selves. of their commerce scattered 10 n
winds. Of their property's destruction o
their countrynen cast into dungeons. O
their seamsn entrapped and asssssiuated
ali thought evan Of TIE ragged little arm
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heart Of the great republic with sens
OF its divine mission OF hope and Terc
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