The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-05

hemispheres there is only one great sphere,
and find ourselves on this globe with Tur-
key and Russia and England, whether we
would or not. We have passed our teens
and we have entered our manhood. The
crudities. the imperfections the audacious-
ness of our youth still cling to us: we have
yet great deal to learn none the less we
have entered on our national manhood.
And we are to carry into this new phase
of national development the qualities
and characteristics Of our national history
in the past. God grant that we may leave
back OF us the perSecutingS, the corruption,
the lawlessneSs, the lynch law, but may
carry into the future the love of liberty. the
confidence in men, the belief in conscience,
the determination that all men shall have
an equal chance, the desire to give to all
men an equal education. the resolve that
religion shall be free from prosecuting DOM
ination on the one side and from every kind
of coercion on the other.
THE issue seems to me to be the old issue
In new form. do not wish to take this
day and this platform to glorify my country
on the one hand, nor would | take 1t to
vilify Spain on the other. I have no hate
for Spain. / hope for her long life and her
national prosperity. l hope yet to see her
take her place among the nations of the
earth, where she ought to take it. march
ing with the nations of The earth toward
larger liberty and a nobler life. would not
Witty Spain; but still, when l consider what
the issue is, and put these two nations side
by size and see what in their history, in
their constitution in their laws, they stand
for, this seems to be very clear: On one side
self-government, and on the other despot-
ism. traditional and still maintained
though under forms of constitutional law;
on the one side public school system pro-
viding education for all the people, though
not yet adequately, and on the other side,
/ believe, the greatest illiteracy of any state
in Europe; on one side progress. the nine
teenth century, by quick step into the TWEEN
tieth, and on the other side the sixteenth
century, with scarcely a flower of the nine
teenth blooming on 1T; one one side the doc
trine that religion and irreligion are abso-
llltelV a
church still in control.
Il hope these reporters will not mSreport
me; You will not misunderstood me, know.
The church of Rome is not the prosecuting
church mean. l believe to-day that relig
ious liberty would be free in the hands of
the American Catholic as in the hands of the
American Protestant; in the hands of Car
dinal Gfbbor end Archbishop Ireland in
the hands o. ny minister in the land. But
the church Oh spain is prosecuting church
still and the church of America, Catholic
and Protestant, is a church that loves liber-
asue Tor b SeT1 de1ppotsm
chance, caste, public school system, igno-
rance, nineteenth century, sixteenth GEN.
fury, freedom of religion. religious perse-
cution-it is the same battle that was fought
between Drake and the Armada it is the
same battle that fought between Will
liam of Orange and the Duke of 'Alva in a
new form.
II must try and hasten to my close In
this issue faced we cannot halt or turn back.
| do not discuss the question whether we
have entered into this battle in the most dig
nified manner possible. l think we have not
| do not discuss the question whether we
could have avoided the conflict by diplo-
macy; ] do not believe We could have avoid
ed It by diplomacy l do not debate, the
question whether it ought not to have been
settled by arbitration; questions of right
ought to be settled by arbitration; question
cation to stand still while cruelty and rapine
and starvation did their work just across
the border was question for the American
to settle, for himself. not to be settled for
nlmSelf other
on the globe But l do not discuss these
questions. We are in the war and we are
despotism on the other. What then? 1t is
to be pushed forward with all vigor nor any
halt nor any step backward till the end is
reached. believe in peace. but do not
believe in peaceful war. (Applause) And
when there is war then the more Vigor
the more strength, the more expedition the
more terrible fire put into it. the more mer-
cy, for the quicker the end.
COMING RESPONSIBILITIES.
we did not mean to free the Philippine
islands, but we have done it, and the re-
sponsibility of the Philippine islands is upon
us. whether We like it or no. The respon-
sibility of Cuba and Porto Rico will soon
be upon us whether we like it or no. We
must accept the responsibility with all that
which it involves: nor, l think should we
sheath the sword nor stop a gum until the
Spanish flag is hauled down from every
foot of territory on this side the globe Nor
can we be partner in giving back a foot of
territory OH the other side of the globe
which has been taken from under her
power. To do it would be for st George to
give back the maiden to the dragon after
the maiden had been captured from him.
We can be recluse TO more. We can
no longer say we will live on this side of the
sphere and other nations shall live on the
other side the sphere. We have taken our
place among the nations of the earth. God
has, as it WERE taken us by the shoulders
thrust OaU
equipment for foreign policy. We shall
need educated consus. We shall need edu-
nize that this Nation is a nation and that
the foreign policy Inaugural ted by one adj
ministration is not to be flung to the winds
by another We shall need to recognize the
fact that the Nation has it's own contin-
uity of history in dealing with foreign ma
tons. We may need a larger army; we may
reed a larger navy, but not chiefly that
We have built this Nation up on the
faith that there is a conscience in humanity
can build international amty up on the con-
tinents and we can appeal to it. There is
a conscience in other nations and we
appeal to 1t.
Cuba, Hawaii the Philippines do not
advocate annexation, I do not advocate
i do not discuss on this platform on this
day, methods do say this: Wherever our
flag floats, wherever our responsibility be-
ciples that are wrought into the very struc-
ture of our Nation-self government. peace
falr chance Tor every man. justice, mercy.
And in this campaign that reaches into
history we have found an ally where two
years ago we thought we had an enemy
Our institutions have been borrowed from
England. She is our motherland. We have
gone beyond her in some respects She can
learn some things from us; we can learn
some things from her. But we are of the
same race, with the same institutions, in
spired by the same great spirit. 7 know it
1t said this is not an Anglo-SaXon nation
What determines nation? The men who
make it's laws. the men who shape it's
thoughts. the men who inspire its direction
men who guide its destiny and the insttu-
tons which it possesses and these are
Anglo-Saxon. Look at your lists of Presi-
dents, look at your list of generals. look
at your your list of senators, look at your
list of writer's and authors--the great men
of this Nation, who have shaped and directed
it have been, with very few EXCEPTIONS
Anglo-Saxon men. And our cousin across
the sea is an Anglo-Saxon race and Eng
land and America joining hands together.
not for ACKNOWLEDGMENT not for acqui-
sition of territory, for glory by war;
but joining hands together for the kingdom
of conscience, the kingdom of justice the
kingdom of equal chance, the kingdom of
universal education, the kingdom of free re-
ligion in one word the kingdom of God on
the earth. shall lead if they will the pro-
cession of the nations down the future. time
till the end shall come