The Progress., 1898-05-21

| only remains for me TO place my sword in
| your maJesty's hands. lam, your ma osty,
| your good brother, Napoleon. Sedan.
September, 1870" That monarchy having
ialIen' then the French republic resumed
| It's march.
| A Good beginning.
Another allayiation is TINT tho w mr. opens
| with "A great victory for the United States
| 1t took our government four yenrs to get
| over the tiasco at Bull Run. A defeat ut
the start of this present war would have
beon dishcartening to the last degree and
would have invited foreign Intervention
TO stop tho war before anything practical
for God and humanity bad been accom-
pushed and would have prolonged tho
strife for which va are hoping Il quick
termination. In the most jubilant mon
nor let this victory of our navy be cclc-
brated. With the story of the exploding
battleship fresh in the minds of the world
1t required no ordinary courage to sail in
to the harbOr of Manila and attack the
Spanish shipping. That harbor, crowded
with sunken weaponry Of denth--to enter
IL was running u risk enough to make all
nations shiver. But Manila is ours, and
the blow has shaken to the foundation the |
palaces of Madrid, and for policy's sake |
the doubtful nations are on our side. For |
Commodore Dewey and all who followed |
him let the whole nation utter its most re-
sounding huzza, and, moro than that, let
us thank the Lord of hosts for his guiding
and protecting power. praise ye the
Lord! Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord"
Might Allied with Right.
Another alienation Is the fact that in
this war the might is on the side Of tho
right. Again and again have liberty and
justice and suffering humanity had the
odds against them. 1t was SO when Ben
hadad's Syrian hosts, who were in the
wrong, at Aphek came upon the small regi-
ments Of Israel, who were in the right,
the Bible putting it In one of those graphic
sentences for which the book is remark
able, 1.-The children of Israel pitched be-
fore them like two little flocks of kids, but
the Syrians filled the whole country" 1t
was SO in the awful defeat of the Lord S
people at Gilboa and Megiddo. 1t was SO
recently when gallant and glorious Greece
was in conflict with gigantic Mohamme-
danism, and the navies of Europe hover
Ing about the Bosporus were in practical
protection of the Turkish government,
fresh from the slaughter Of 100, 900 Arme- {
mans. 1t was so when, in 1916, the ID
colonies, with no war shipping and few
and poorly clad soldiers, were
brought into contest with the mightiest !
navy Of all tho earth and an army that
the admiration of nations. 1t {
was so when Poland was crushed. 1t was
SO when Hungary went under. 1t has {
been SO during all the struggles heretofore t
for Cuban independence. But now it is I
our powerful navy against feeble group {
IF incompetent ships, crawling across the I
A tlantic to meet our Hotillas, which have q
enough guns to send them as completely I
under as when the Red sea submerged '
Pharaohs army. 1t Is SO In these times 8
when only few thousand Spaniards at t
most can reach our hemisphere, and we go /
nut to meet them with 1875, 900 armed men, '
% be backed up speedily with 300, 900 more !
f needed. We do not have to ask for any
but only a fair shot at the ships
beaded this way and time enough to de- =
nolish them. This is one of the cases in I
he worlds history where might and right O
ire shoulder to shoulder. {
Crime Must BE Punished. t
Another alienation is in the fact that o
UGH al atrocity as the destruction of 266 II
ives in Havana barbor in time of peace b
annot with impunity be wrought in this
Ige of the worlds civilization. The ques- y
ion to who did that inferDalism is too b
veil settled to need any further discussion. q