The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-30
"Time for Gods FOrce.0

Subjoined are the closing paragraphs
of Senator Thurston's remarkable
speech in Congress, continued from page
three. After declaring that the Amer
lean people would never consent to the
purchase of Ethe freedom of Cuba, Mr..
Thurston said
"Mr. President, there is only one &C.
ton possible, if any is taken that is,
Intervention for the independence Of
the island (; Intervention that means
the landing of an American army on
Cuban soil, the deploying of an Ameri-
can feet off the harbor of Habana in
tervention which says to Spain, Leave
the island, withdraw your soldiers,
leave the Cubans, these brothers of
ours in the New World, to form and
carry on Government for themselves.
Such Intervention on our part would
not of itself be war. 1t would undoubt-
eddy lead to war. But if war came it
would come by act of Spain in resist
ace of the liberty and the independ-
ence of the Cuban people.
"Mr. President, against the interven-
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cause, there is but one voice of dissent.
That voice is the voice of the money
changers. They fear war. Not be-
cause of any Christian or ennobling
sentiment against war and in favor Of
peace, but they fear that declaration
of war, or the Intervention which might
result in war, would have a depressing
effect upon the stock market.
"Mr. President, I do not read my
duty from the stock ticker l do not
accept my lessons in patriotism from
Wall street. l deprecate war. 1 hope
and pray for the speedy coming of the
time when the sword OF the soldier will
no longer leap from its scabbard to sci.
tie disputes between civilized nations.
But, Mr.. President, it is evident, look
ing at the cold facts, that a war with
Spain would not permanently depre.
ciate the value of single American
stock or bond. War with Spain would
increase the business of the earnings of
every American railroad it would in
crease the output of every American
factory 1t would stimulate every
branch of industry and domestic COM
merce it would greatly increase the
demand for American labor, and in the
end every certificate that represented
share in an American business enter
prise would be worth more money than
it is to-day. But in the meantime the
spectre of war would stride through the
stock exchanges and many of the gam
blers around the board would find their
ill.gotten gains passing to the other
side of the table.
"Let them 60 what one man loses
at the gambling table his fellow gam
bier wins. 1t is no concern of yours,
it is no concern of mine, whether the
bulls or the bears have the best of
these stock deals. They do not repre-
sent American sentiment they do not
represent American patriotism. Let
them take their chances as they can.
Their veal or woe is of but little i'm.
portance to the liberty loving people of
the United States
"Mr. President, there are those who
say that the affairs of Cuba are not the
affairs of the Emitted States, who insist
that we can stand idly by and see that
island devastated and depopulated, its
business interests destroyed, its COM
mercial intercourse with US cut off, it's
people starved, degraded and enslaved.
1t may be the naked legal right of the
United States to stand thus idly by. l
have the right to pass along the street