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

that | am one, something more than
midway between the ages IS and 10,
which limits constitutes the ages OF
the boys who will fight out this war
with Spain. l have talked to South
ern boys before about manufactures,
about agriculture, and the economic
conditions we have to meet in the
South. 1t is no jingo, therefore, who
addresses you, but one whose parents
sought {, instill into him from early
childhood horror of war and all that
pertains to it, and made him believe
that.lhe arts of peace were far more
notable, far more elevatipg, far more
worthy of Christian gentleman than
the arts Of war.
The conclusions which l have
reached in reference to this Spanish
war are the result of cold logic and
careful thought, contrary to, not in
accordance with my prejudices.
IF ever there was a just, righteous
and holy war from the foundation of
the world to the present time, this is
that war
n.the little pocket Testament pur-
chased to-day and which mean to
carry into battle with me if it il my
lot to 60 into battle, | find few
verses which / am going to quote.
Fir,t, I would remark that carrying
this Testament is not so mu b sign
of early piety as 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
are in the Bible.
stAnd Jesus went into the temple of
God and cast out all them that sold
and bought in the temple
and said unto them, 1t is written my
house shall be called the house of
prayer, but you have made it a den of
'thiev S.
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-
oned by foul odo. and vile sanitatio n.
Buu there are those who will say tlat
tCaba is not Gods temple; that the
earth aft all is ,nly his footstool.
If it i then the other side of it is
the one he uses and Spa the partic-
ular spot,,he wipes his feet on.
believe no such 4octrine. I be-
lieve the earth is God S temple and
Christian nations are charged With the
solemn duty of preve ting such de-
flement.,of it as the Spania- d have
practieed in Cuba. fIf the meek and
gentle Jesus, the one who came to
bring pesce and goodwill on earth had
the spunk q mean no ilreverence: l
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
nation a.e rot holy to hurt any how,
not particularly quiet or peaceable by
nature, and with 10 reputation for
that sort of thing, to sustain as Jesus
had, sLall we, say, coolly stand by
when robbery, murder and arvation
are practiccd in place admittedly
more unhappy thar holy; but which
by the grace of God will b. good
deal holi II andhappier, too, before we
get through with it?
There are those who say that it is
not our u-iness to meddle in Cuba
and that to go to war about the unhap-
py island is crime. 1t is useless to
argu, with people who arc holier than
Jesus Christ. Turn from the tiresomc
drivel Of such goody, goody people
and listen to the words of the man
who had not one atom Of sympathy
with oppression or hypocrisy in his
composition.
"Woe unto you, scribes and Phari-
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 Pharisees, hypocrites. for y are
like unto wAited sepulehres, which
indeed appear beautiful outward, but
are within full of dead men S bones
and all uncleanncss. Ye seraents, ye
generation Of vipers, how can yc es-
cape the damnatlon of hell2
If there is any single thing in The
whole category of sins the scribes anc
Pharisees committed which the Span
iards have not committed and worse
| fail to recall it. The good man says.