Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-23
THE BENEFITS Of TIE WAR
Congressman Dolliver Says
We Gained at Home
and Abroad.
RENEWED SEAF-RESPECT.
The World Will Fe Slow to Make
Quarrel With a Nation
Like This.

Which Can Raise Tw0 Hundred Millions,
without the Aid of syndicate Within
Two Weeks, by a Popular Loan; Which
Within Five Years NiiI Have "A Splendid
Steel Fleet; Which. No Longer Knows
Sectional Prejudice.
In a lecture at Ocean Grove N. j.,
Congressman j. p. Dolliver, of Iowa,
said:
we have gained ny the war infinite
ly more than we have lost, and the un-
erring instinct of the people at large
whose sovereign purpose overruled the
judgment OF the statesmen in the
initial stages of the conflict has given
us new National prestige at home and
abroad-to ourselves a new basis of
self-respect; to the nations of Europe
a new and healthfil insight into our
resources and power. The world will
be slow to make a quarrel with COM
munity that can raise two hundred mil
lions of dollars without the aid of a
syndicate at home or abroad within
two weeks by a popular loan.
THE Cabinets of the Old World will
hold a long session before allowing
themselves to be drawn into collision
with a nation which, within five years,
will have at it's disposal a steel fleet of
which the Brooklyn and Oregon are
only the types and fore-runners. The
war has perfected our strength at home
by the total obliteration of the lines of
sectional prejudice marked upon our
map by the great struggles of the last
generation. Gen. Joe Wheeler, in the
thick of the fight at Santiago, stands
for the larger patriotism, North and
South which has turned its back upon
the past and opened its vision to the
sublime destiny of q reunited people,
THE same Influences that have re-
stored the perfect union of our country
have brought back also the harmony to
which broad minded men of both coun-
tries have long looked forward in the
relations of the English-speaking
world. At the Outbl eak of the Spanish
war the restless diplomacy Of Europe
was circumvented by the prompt notice
of the English Government that any
constraint placed by the powers upon
the Government of the United States
would have to count on the disapproval
and active hostilities of the Govern
ment and people of England, and thus,
by simple act of national fellowship
the worn and thread-bare prejudices Of
century yield in both countries to a
recognition of the common cause which
the English race scattered throughout
the earth is now to make for liberty
and civilization.
The peace which is now at hand
imposes upon our Government prob
lens vastly more difficult than the
prosecution of the war. 1t puts the
destnies of the Spanish Weat Indies at
once in our hands. 1t gives us Puerto
Rico-the government of which will
us to establish a stable and orderly
! Government in Cuba agreeable to the
people of the island. We have already
raised the flag of the United States over
the Hawaiian Islands, now familiar
with republican institutions. Admiral
Dewey, in the harbor of Manila, by the
most notable exploit in the history OF
the navy, brought us face to face with
the problem of the Philippines.
From the beginning to the end OF
the war it is evident to the devout
student of history that our people in a
strange way have been subject to the
guidance of powers wiser than any hui
man foresight, and that we have come
to our present situation in the provi
dence ofGod Without our knowing it Of
intending it, we have been caught in thu
current-in what our fathers used tc
call the course of human events. VI
to this hour we have discharged every
duty with heroism and a self-sacrifict
that has taken no thought for our.
selves.
1T cannot be doubted that the Presi
dent of the United States, secure in The
confidence of all the people without re-
gard to politics, will go forward in the
discharge of every duty which arises
out of our new relations to the civiliza
ton of the world; aud behind him viii
stand the united millions of our people
ready for their duty, as old Bismarck
once said: In the fear of God ant
nothing else