The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-18

49,, nh. one, something more than
..i5way between the ages II and 10,
yb:cl limits Constitutes the ages of
-. ioy> who viii fight out this wal
-, ,pain. have talked to South
io,, before about manufactures
.,,u, agriculture, and the economic
,,i;tionS we have to meet in the
.,n,] 1t is no lingo, therefore, who
addresses you, but one whose parents
.u,ht {. instill into him from early
.bldhood horror of war and all that
,.r,ains to IT, and made him believe
,la, ;r arts of peace were far more
notable, far more clevatiDg, far more
worthy of Il Christian gentleman than
The ar,- Of war
The conclusions which | have
reached in reference to this Spanish
war are the result Of cold logic and
careful thought, contrary to, not in
accoricncc with my prejudiccs.
If ever there was just, righteous
and holy war from the foundation of
the world to the present time, this is
that war
In the little pocket Testament pur-
chased to-day and which I mean to
carry into battle with me if it is my
10, to 20 into battle, l find a few
verses which l am going TO quote.
Firt. | would remark that carrying
this Testament is not so mu b a sign
Of early piety as a ope that If any
bullets strike me they will strike this
Testament at one of those hard texts,
harder than my bullet we all know
arc in the Bible
And Jesus went into the temple of
God md cast out all them that sold
and bought in the temple
and said unto them. It is written my
house shall be called the house of
prayer, but you have made it den of
thicy $.
What have the Spaniards made of
Cuba; Not merely den of thieves,
but desert, slaughter house, a
place where men, women and children
have been nuddled together and pois-
caed by foul odo. and vile sanitatio n.
Bu, there are those who will say that
{ la is not God S temple; that the
earth aft all is ,niy his footstool.
If it i then the other side of it is
the me he uses and Spa the partic-
ular spot he wipes his feet on.
believe no such .octrine. | be-
lieve thc earth is God S temple and
Christian nations are charged With the
solemn duty of preve ting such de-
Element of it as the Spania. d have
practiced in Cuba. aIf the. meek and
gentle Jesus, the one who came to
bring peace and good will on earth had
the srunk mean no ilreverencc:
am talking to boys in language they
understand) to whip, perhaps knock
down and drag out, literally cast out
those who were doing things which
would have been perfectly legitimate
elsewhere: shall we Americans who as
anation a;e not holy to hurt any how,
not Particularly auiet or peaceable by
nature, and with 10 reputation for
that sort of thing, to sustain as Jesus
had, stall we, | say, coolly stand by
when robbery, murder and .arya.ion
are practiccd in place admittedly
more unhappy thar holy; but which
by the grace of God will b.. good
deal holi 81 and happier, too, before we
get through with it?
There are those who say that it is
Iot our bu incss to mcddle in Cuba
and that to 90 to war about the unhap-
py island is crime. Itis useless to
argu, with people who are holier than
Jesus Christ. Turn from the tiresomc
drlFcl of such goody, goody people
anu listen to the words Of the man
who had not one atom of sympathy
with oppression Or hypocrisy in his
composition.
Woe unto -ou, seribes and PIiari-
sees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the
outside of the cups and the platter,
but within they are full Of extortion
and excess. Woe unto you, scribes
and an Pharisees, hypocritesl for y are
IKE unto whited sepulehres, which
indeed appear beautiful outward, but
are within full Of dead men bones
and all uncleanucss. Yc serpents, We
generation Of vipers, how can yc es-
cape the damnation Of hell?'
If there is any single thing in the
whole category Of sins the scribes and
rhaflsees committed which the Span
,ards have not committed and worse,
iall to recall it. Thcgood man says:
Nc serpents, ye generation Of vi
pHrs' The gooiy good say .'Poor
SiIln! Poor ouon,, roconkt Oo..,:4