The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-09-10

Van Mugs. II got mine in San Francisco.
but 1 think 1t was the only one that APP
peared on Market street, and about de-
cided to call it ln but I find 1t all right
here" and he drew his overcoat more
closely about him as he spoke.
DR.. Talmage looks more than ever like
a successful comedian. His face Is deeply
lined, but beaming with cheeriness and
optimism. He has more nerves than he
ought to have. evidently, for he accentu-
a.es every word he says with constant
movement-feet, legs, arms, hands, head
and eyes tw1tch and move in emphasis or
explanation of his sentences.
In voice, livehness Of intellect and spright-
illness Of person. he is no older than he was
score Of years ago, but now he has to
carefully brush his hair upward, with a
parting just over each ear, and the wrin-
kles are thick about his keen, twinkling
little eyes.
1.-THE soldiers? Alger? Well, I don't
know enough about that to talk" he said,
when asked about the war department scan.
dial. II only know Mr.. Gage personally,
rot as an official, and have found him a
very lovely man. He has the finest family
| In the country. OF course II you send
troops to yellow-fever country in the sick
ly season, many Of them will get that fever:
others will have typhoid, and others mala-
ria, and many must die; but I cannot tell,
with my want Of information, whether or
not the war department is at fault. At the
beginning of the war politics crept into It
| tremendously at Washington, In the num-
Der Of applications for military positions
whether all the appointees were competent
| is, Of course, questionable.
"Of course l am an expansionist I.
would be cruel for this country to abandon
| the Philippines or any other war-gained
possession. Let me tell you, great light
| Is breaking In on all the dark places of the
| world. venture to say that in every ham,
let of China this war of ours has been dis
cussed. 1t is the same in India. The light
of progress and of liberty is spreading
more than ever before in the worlds his
| tory. That disarmament note from the
czar marks an epoch. Reason and right
| liberty and liberalism, are the keynotes OF
the day. We must accept the responsible
tiles that the award of the sword has
brought us. We commenced the war to
stop the atrocities in Cuba, but there is
just as much reason for helping the Fiji
pinos. If you see man committing an out
rage, you will pick UP a club and go for
| him-that is, II you are any kind Of a
man yourself; but when you get through
with him, If you see another man beating
child or abusing a woman you will turn
your club to some use on him. We should
give the Cubans and the Filipinos The priv
ilege Of choosing their own government
after we have made Spain take her heel
from Off their necks."
DR.. Talmage's ideas on Russia are most
novel and impressive, but they must make
another story. He will remain in South
ern California for some days, spending
most Of his time probably at Coronado.
The peripatetic preacher is in excellen,
health, as happy as al man can be, and Sc
rene in the firm belief that the world can.
not be failure-that, according to the
promise Of the Book, it is to be eventually
all "gardenized,"