The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-26
GREAT GRAND ARMY DAY
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stay in America? What has become of that suit of small clothes worn in our nations boyhood? Where has it gone? What September Gale has blown it away? And what Holmes shall sing over it's flight through the air, My brooches! Oh my breeches!" Alas! It burst out at the back at Ma nila on May 1. Both knees went at Cuba and Porto Rico on July 3, and the seat went out at Honolulu on Au- gust 12 and out of that outgroWn suit of boys knickerbockers there sprang full-groWn man six feet In his socks, shapely and athletic, with a sword in one hand and an olive branch in the other, and the seer-like look of lofty inspiration in his uplifted eye and brow; and the nations of the earth be- held his Stature, his strength, his wis dom and patience, and they said the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elijah, and they bowed in respect and awe before him.
 My friends, do we know that a new America is born into the society Of the nations? The first America was born free from the yoke of foreign despot- ism. The second America was born free from the direr curse of slavery. And now a third America is born Tree from the shackles of juvenile tradl- tion, and stands up in his full and man ly majority and says, T have the right to do whatever work the God ot na- tions gives me to do anywhere on the face of the earth, and am ready to do it''
 How strangely swift, sometimes, are the dealings of God for the enlighten- e No of X- alton to the United States has been, for years the only manifest and proper destiny for Hawaii. But too many of our statesmen were still in their politi- cal small clothes until Dewey's guns at Manila scared them out of them; and then they saw, in an instant, that we must accept Hawaii-that it was abso- lutely indispensable. And so Hawaii was annexed, via Manila. Dewey s guns did it. The longest way around was the surest way home. And there are yet other ways in which Dewey shells flew far beyond their Spanish targets, and blew up more than they were aimed at. And so Dewey's vic- tory at Manila was an epoch making one, in the history and attitude of America, far beyond the more trench dous one, in a naval and military sense, of July at Santiago.
 And another thing this war has shown and the old world has recog- nized At the outset of the war they said: The United States has no trained army. They must mainly depend on volunteers. But they can't meet Spain trained troops with only volunteers. But they whipped and captured one- third more men than their own whole number, and now the world says: With men of such intelligence, education and individual resources from which to or ganize her armies, America can do all most anything. Such men drill and train themselves. They are not the same material as that from which we have to make our armies. We have no such material of which to make our armies. And as to their valor in actua battle, the saying of the Spanish sol diers captured at Fl Clancy is likely tc become historic. They were utterly amazed at the charges of our mer across open fields upon their strong in trenchments, and they exclaimed: "We shoot at Cubans, he run away. We shoot at Americans, he come on al the more!' But so it has ever been So it was in our great-grandfather days, yours and mine-S1meon Taylor of old Woodbury, of the Second Con necticut infanry, who served through the whole seven years of the Reyolu tion and received his honorable dis charge and badge of merit from Genera Washington.
 So 1t was in the civil war of the six ties. The naughty southerner, accus toned to regard all manual labor al befitting only slaves, called our fret working masses northern mudsills, and expected to whip us five to one But he was astonished to find that tn man behind the Springfield rifle wa more than his match in both intelli gence and dogged grit, and so, by tn rude introduction of battle, the boy in blue and the boys in gray found on another out, and have respected one an other ever since.
 But when this Spanish war brok out men said the grand veterans Wh fought so valiantly in the sixties ar now too old to fight. They are white haired. and stiff with age. Will thei grandsons fight as they fought? Vel the world has found out that the fir of the old dogs is still in their pups The wolf-hound and the mastiff ar here yet, ana ready to pun uoWh LII bull or the stag when called on to so The fire is in the Anglo-Saxo blood. It is well-trained and docilt and expends it's energy in useful la bors by preference, but woe to the flo that provokes it too sorely and to long. for the Saxon Cerdic and Aell and Cissa of fourteen centuries ago ar here yet!
 .J1 o1I fJT,ao i,,t ty-N11 lie awake nights worrying as to wha is to become of the United States. Thi country has now attained it's majorit among the grown-up nations, and ready to do a mans work in the Worlt and just beginning to get at it.
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