New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-05
THE DUTIES OF THE WAR.
ST. CLAIR M'KELwAY AT GLEN Sum
NIT, PENN

Glen Summit. Penn July CspeciaD.-At the
Fourth OF July celebration here to-day 81. Clair
Mckelway OF Brooklyn, spoke. He discussed the
radical and conservative forces that have worked
together in the National development. pointing out
the service that each had done. and then spoke
OF the present In closing HI said:
et US not discard or belittle the mserles and the
duy O. war o let US n1s deny or abandon d our
10 our hand. And that i may BE- briet. let us see
let that II is waged with ali Inc appliances
TO make preponderance OF force as effective pos
sible without needless recourse to its employment.
and that it may be- as benign as possible let US
surround II with all the aids Of succor az sympathy
and OF service that IAN be supplied. And let us
be as true to duty As our fathers were. As
Washington never lowered the American nag where
ne had raised it, so let rs resolve that shall not
no lowered by Government and by our armies
wnere has been raised as he conqgerns sign Of
tutions for those IN whose behalf We have gone
and jefferson did not fear that our institutions
could not expand from where the MISSISSIPPI
ing no sound save It's own Gashings. so !et US not
Despair n the expansihly and OF ne applcs oiity
cline or 10 any race providentiai!y paced within
And LEI us cultivate a spirit OF moderation and OF
kndness. even for those who cannot live the pace
o. our National NJ. They DO love their country
though they have never said 50. They have been
50 pusy guarding II or occurring II that they nave
pied with the instruction Of the rising generation
that the generations which have arisen and gone
fpg, 70 90 men SoIk S have been so ccas
toned to the simulated difference OF ingenious and
polite youth that they have converted II into the
coin Of scholastic infaliibillty and have made II
pass current among them They are shocked az US,
and they a'e surprised NJ us. hut we shouh ne
neither shocked nor surprised at them. We are
growing and they VIII grow. and they VIII counsel
US I'm our enlargement rs sereney as trey thought
TO cheek ia the process itself
And now friends. let Us admit our DEBT. Doth
the radicals and - the conservatives In this Ma
tonal movement and in All National movements In
the past. We Americans al. Some or US are
for small America and some % rs FOR large Amer
tea. Some 81 = for old America ana some o,
us re forever young Americans. The young Amer
leans are the masters % the future. The old Amer
leans are the worshippers 81 the past and the fear
ors OF the present The wheel goes round. Inc
world moves and the nations move with IL. our
has just Joined the march.
A century from nov our conservatives IN ,uoa'
In Porto Rico Hawaii. in the Ladrone II amos,
In the Carolnes and in the Philippines VIII pe
preaching 10 that moderation when we dis-
cardeI 10 attain them. and VIII he sublecting w,
happily IN vain. 20 the hypnotic suggestions WIN
which they would hold rs a. Tampa ana tie US az
San Francisco to-day. tn" true hghi ~ the past
illumcs the way wider future. The true ms.
sion of the present il - ircpar" ourselves ior Iha
future Every Yesterday Is n lhcraio- ~ To-Day
Every to-day holds In solution the hereafter LIN
erty means progress Progress means Tomorrow.
and every anniversary Of our Declaration ~ Inde-
pendence should itself register dec afaloh OF our
INDEPENDENCE from any apprehension that THIS
provideniiai Nation will not be adequate anu obed-
en-, - the purposes Of Providence In all the ann
versares that are yet - come