The Dickinson press., 1898-04-02


sertiou, but I do know this-that unless
congress acts promptly, meeting this
grave crisis % Il should be met, No viii.
30 swept away. and We ought to b
swept away. By tho tidal wave Of Amer.
loan indignation.
The pseaddsnt hAs not been carried OF
his feet.
The administration has been doing its
whole duty. With rare foresight and
atateamanahip It has fastened 60 make
every possible Weparatonifor my emer-
The. RisAs Of Might.
Nj. President, there are those who
say that the affairs Of Cubs ars not the
affairs Of the United States, who insist
that we an stand idly by and see that
island devastated and depopulated, its
business interests destroyed, its CONNER
otal intercourse with rs cut OF, its peo-
pie starved, degraded and enslaved. Il
may be the naked legal right Of the
United States to stand thus idly BY.
I have the right to pass along the
street and see a helpless dog stamped
Into the earth under the heels Of . ruff.
ian. I can pass by and say that IL not
my dog. I can sit in my comfortable
parlor with my loved ones gathered
about me and through my plate glass
window Q a fend outraging a helpless
Woman moan hv s~d n.u Io~>015 49,
this is no affair of mine-it il not hap
pening on my premises-and I can turn
away and take my little ones in my
arms and, with the memory Of their
sainted mother in my heart, look up to
the motto on the wall and read, "God
bless our homer"
But If I do ! am q coward and q cur,
unfit to live, and. God knows, unfit to
die. And yet I cannot protect the dog
nor save the woman without the exer-
oise Of force.
We cannot intervene and save Cuba
without the exercise Of force. and force
means war; war means blood. The low.
~ Nazarene on the shores Of Galilee
preached the divine doctrine Of love,
"Peaee on earth. good will toward
men," Not peace on earth at the ex-
pense Of liberty and humanity. Not
good will toward men who despoil, en-.
slave, degrade and starve to death their
fellow men. I believe in the doctrine Of
Christ. I believe in the doctrine Of
peace, but, MI. President, men must
have liberty before there can come abid.
ing peace.
A Lesson In Patriotism.
Mr.. President, against the ~interven-
tion Of the United States In this holy
cause there is but one voice Of dissent;
that voice is the voice Of the money
changers. They fear wari Not because
of any Christian or enrolling sentiment
against war and in favor Of peace, but
because they fear that a declaration Of
war, or the intervention which might
result in war, would have q depressing
effect upon the stock market.
Mr.. President, ! do not read my duty
from the ticker; + do not accept my
lessons in patriotism from Wall street.
! deprecate war. I hope and pray for
the speedy coming of the time when the
sword Of the soldier will no longer leap
from it's scabbard to settle disputes be-
tween civilized nations. But, Mr.. Presi.
dent, it is evident, looking at the cold
facts, that q war with Spain would not
permanently ~depreciate the value Of .
single American stock or bond.
Let them 60; what one man loses at
the gambling table his fellow gambler
wins. 1t ia no concern Of yonrs, it is no
concern of mine, whether the "bulls''
or the ''bears" have the best Of these
stock deals. They do not represent
American sentiment; they do not repre-.
sent American patriotism. Let them
take their chances as they can. Their
veal or woe issof but little Importance
to the liberty loving people of the Unit
ed States. Let the men whoselQyalty is
to the dollar stand aside while the men
whose loyalty is to the hssSoome to
the front
There : some whoSlift thasirsyoices
in the land End in the open liihti of
day insist that the Republicanssmny
will not act. for they nay ii soldSaatsn
the capitalists and the monsySSphangears
at the last national election.
It is not 60. God Forbid Tho 1000.
600 freemen who voted for the Repub-
lican party and for William MCKINLEY
did not mortgage the honor Of this q
tion for a campaign fund, andsit the
time ever comes when the Republican
party hesitates in: its course of duty be.
cause Of any undue anxiety for the well
fare Of the accumulated wealth Of the
nation then let the Republican party
be swept from the face Of the earth and
be succeeded by some other party, by
whatever name It may be called, which
will represent the patriotism, the HON
esty, the loyalty and the devotion that
the Republican party exhibited under
Abraham Lincoln In 1851.
Intervention means force. Force means
war. War means blood. But it will be
Gods force. When has q battle for hu.
mainly and liberty Q been won az
oept by force? What barricade Of wrong,
injustice and oppression has ever been
carried except by force?
Force Compels Freedom.
Force compelled the signature Of I'M.
willing royalty to the great Magma
Oharta; force put life into the Deolara-'
tion Of Independence and made effective
the emancipation proclamation; force
beat with naked hands upon the Iron
gateway of the Bastile and made re-.
prisal in n awful hour for centuries
Of kingly crime; force waved the flag
OF revolution over Bunker Hill and
marked the SHOWS Of Valley Forge with
bleod stained feet; force held the breken
line at Shiloh, climbed the fame swept
hill at Chattanooga and stormed the
clouds on Lookout heights; force march
ed with Sherman to the sea, rode with
Sheridan in the valley Of the shenan-
doah and gave Grant victory at Apo.