The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-08-18
COL. Balm ON THE WAR.
The Kentuckey Temperance Orator Draws
Lessons from the Conflict

The Kentuckey Temperance Orator Draws
Lessons from the Conflict.
Col. G. w. Balm, the noted temper
ance orator of Kentucky, delivered
an address on lessons Drawn From
the War with Spain" last Thursday
evening at the auditorium at Noun
tain Lake Park.
"Centuries ago." Col. Balm said,
"the Jews settled in Spain and grad
ually accumulated immense wealth.
Suddenly prosecutions arose. Span
ish hobs followed the Jews whenever
they appeared in public. In BARGE
Iona the seat of Jewish culture and
wealth, the persecution was intense.
Then came the edict that the Jews
were to leave. They left the land in
which their ancestors had dwelt for
1000 years, and they left behind them
the millions they had accumulated.
They went out beggars. The years
passed and Spain forgot her treat
ment of the Jews, but the Jews had
not forgotten it.
"When the war broke out, Spain
went down on her knees before the
Rothchilds and other Jewish bankers,
and the answer Spain got was, Not
one penny shall you have to fight a
waE. against the United States But
when Che Emitted States made the re-
quest for money the Jewish bankers
of New York city responded most
generously.
II am not Of those who believe this
war was an accident, who say if the
jingoes had kept quiet this question
could have been settled by President
Mckinley without recourse to war.
If there had been no war, Spain
would not have given up her posses
sions.
"This war means the freedom of
Spanish dependencies. You say we
only take Porto Rico and give back
the Philippines. If the Philippines
do go back to Spain, she will not
be able to keep them. To have
a victory like that at Manila,
with not single ship sunk, means
more than commodore's honor.
Just at the moment when Shat
ter wrote that he must have rein
forcements, Blanco lost his head and
Cervera said, Give me liberty or give
me destruction and Schley said,
We'll give you destruction and keep
liberty for Cuba
columbus discovered America in
1899, but it seems that Spain did not
discover the United States until 1898
| tell you it means something for the
United States to have destroyed the
Spanish fleets as it did, while the
Spanish fleets did not so much as
destroy a single rowboat.
1.-THE future of our country does not
depend upon gold or silver or tariff,
but upon mans moral fitness for
dominion. Out of this war with Spain
IIe-wiiff come a lesson to humanity which
will make it impossible for country
ever again to harass those dependent
upon her.
'Thirty-four years ago the North
and South were divided, to-day the
nephew of Lee and son of General
Grant march side by side. This war
was no mere accident.
LET the day never come when this
country will forget God. We can run
this country without any party, but
we cannot without God. Gold wont
save us.
Lets get the lesson of Spain.
Don't boast of our wealth and great
ness. Three centuries ago Spain was
one of the great nations of the world.
To-day she is a wreck.
Somebody said recently to me that
Spain is not so cruel as she was once.
Isn't she? Remember the Maine; re-
member the reeoncentrado order.
Spain to-day is reaping the reward of
her acts But let us remember that
for the hundreds the reconcentradO
order doomed to starvation, the liquor
traffic has doomed thousands. Two
hundred and sixty-three men were
lost on the Maine, 245 are lost every
day in the year through the liquor