Connecticut western news., 1898-05-19

war every drummer boy or picket or
 gunner or standard bearer or skirmisher
 or sharpshooter or cavalryman or artil-
 leryman or engineer who falls falls in
 the cause of mercy and becomes mar | tyr for God and his country.
 Spain Will Be Free.
 Another alleviation of this war is
 that it is for the advancement of the
 sublime principle of liberty, which will
 yet engirdle the earth. Not only will
 this war free Cuba, but finally will free
 Spain. By what right does dynasty like that stand, and corrupt court dom-
 mate people for centuries, taxing them
 to death, riding in gilded chariot over
 the necks of beggared population? | There are 10, 900 boys in Spain growing
 up with more capacity to govern that
 nation than will the weak boy now in
 the Madrid palace ever possess. Before
 this conflict is over the Spanish nation
 will be we'll on toward the time when ! a constitutional convention will assem-
 ble to establish free government in-
 stead of the wornout dynasty that now
 afflicts the people. The liberty of all
 nations, transatlantic as we'll as cisat-
 lantic, if not already established, is on
 the way, and it cannot be stopped.
 1 Napoleon III thought he had success
 fully driven the principle out of France 1 when, on the 2d day of December,
 1851 he rode down the Champs Elsyees
 of Paris, constitutional government | seemingly crushed under the hoofs of
 his steed. But did it stay crushed? Let
 the batteries on the heights above Sedan
 answer, and the shout of 250, 900 con- | quering hosts and the letter of surren-
 der to Emperor William tell the story.
 "Sire, My Brother-Not having been
 able to die in the midst of my troops, 1t
 only remains for me to place my sword | in your majesty's hands. I am, your
 majesty, your good brother, Napoleon.
 Sedan, September, 1870." That mon-
 archy having fallen, then the French republic resumed its march.
 | Another alleviation is that the war
 opens with great victory for the Unit
 ed States It took our government four
 years to get over the tiasco at Bull Run. | A defeat at the start of this present war would have been disheartening to the
 last degree and would have invited for | eign intervention to stop the war before
 anything practical for God and human
 ity had been accomplished and would
 have prolonged the strife, for which we
 are hoping a quick termination. In the
 most jubilant manner let this victory of our navy be celebrated. With the
 story of the exploding battleship fresh
 in the minds of the world it required
 no ordinary courage to sail into the
 harbor of Manila and attack the Span | ish shipping. That harbor, crowded
 with sunken weaponry of death, to en-
 ter it was running risk enough to | make all nations shiver. But Manila
 is ours, and the blow has shaken to the
 foundation the palaces of Madrid, and for policy's sake the doubtful nations
 are on our side. For Commodore Dew
 ey and all who followed him let the
 whole nation utter its most resounding
 huzza, and more than that let us thank | the Lord of hosts for his guiding and | protecting power. Praise ye the Lord.
 Let everything that hath breath praise | the Lord"
 | A War For the Right.
 Another alleviation is the fact that | in this war the might is on the side of | the right. Again and again have liber- I ty and justice and suffering humanity | had the odds against them. It was so | when Benhadad's Syrian hosts, who | were in the wrong, at Aphek came up- | on the small regiments of Israel, who | were in the right, the Bible putting it | in one of those graphic sentences for l which the book is remarkable, "The | children of Israel pitched before them | like two little f1ocks of kids, but the | Syrians filled the whole country" It was so in the awful defeat of the Lord s | people at Gilboa and Megiddo. It was so recently when gallant and glorious | Greece was in conflict with gigantic l Mohammedanism, and the navies of | Europe lowering about the Bosporus
 were in practical protection of the Turk
 ish government, fresh from the slaugh- ter of 100, 900 Armenians. It was so when in 1776 the 13 colonies, with no
 war shipping and few undrilled and poorly clad soldiers, were brought into | a contest with the mightiest navy of | all the earth and an army that con- manded the admiration of nations. It | was so when Poland was crushed It was so when Hungary went under. It l has been so during all the struggles | heretofore for Cuban independence. But | now it is our powerful navy against a | feeble group of incompetent ships, | crawling across the Atlantic to meet | our fotillas, which have enough guns
 to send them as completely under as | when the Red sea submerged Pharaoh s
 army. It is so in these times, when on- | ly few thousand Spaniards at most | can reach our hemisphere, and we go I out to meet them with 125, 1000 armed
 men, to be backed up speedily with 50o,- | 900 more if needed. We do not have to | ask for any miracle, but only fair shot
 at the ships headed this way and time | enough to demolish them. This is one | of the cases in the worlds history
 where might and right are shoulder to | shoulder.
 Doom of Spain.
 Another alleviation is in the fact that such an atrocity as the destruction | of 266 lives in Havana harbor in time | of peace cannot with impunity be
 wrought in this age of the worlds civi- | lization. The question as to who did l that infernalism is too we'll settled to 1 need any further discussion. But what
 a small crime it was compared with the | systematic putting into their graves of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, or leaving them unburied for the buzzards | to take care of If Spain could destroy 200, 900 men, women and children, the
 slaughter of 266 people was not a very
 great undertaking. But this one last | deed will result in the liberation of Gu
 ba and the driving of Spain from this hemisphere and the overthrow of that l government, which will soon drop to | pieces if it does not go down under | bombardment of insulted nations
 There was danger that the long con- | tinued oppression of our neighbors in | ba ,o;obk ba oopf;n,ol Pro,,, 1oNoro