Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-19

An other alienation oil this war Is
that ii is for the advancement Of the
sublime principle of liberty, which
will yet engirdlc the earth. Not only
Will this war free Cuba, but finally
will free Spain. By what right does a
dynasty like that stand. and a corrupt
taxing them to death, riding in gilded
chariot over the necks of a heggHred
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 he
well on toward the time when con-
stitutional convention will assemble
To establish a free government instead
of the WORKOUT dynasty that now at
ilicts the people. The liberty of all
nations. transatlantic as well as cisat.
lantic, il not already established is on
the way; and it can not he stopped.
Napoleon Ill, thought he had sue
ccssfully driven the principle out of
France, when ON the second day of
December. 1851, he rode down the
Champs Elys 'es of Paris, constitutions
al government seemingly crushed I'M
der the hoofs of his stccd. But
did it stay crushed? Let the batteries
on the heights above Sedan answer.
and the shout of $50, 200 conqucring
hosts and the letter of surrender to EN-
peror William tell the story. Sire,
nrANlA-. L., 81. 4 a.,
die in the midst of my troops, it only
remains for me to place my sword in
your ma jeSty's hands. | am. Your Ma
jesty, your good brother, Napoleon.
Sedan, September, 1870" That mon
archy having fallen, then the French
republic resumed its march.
Another alienation is that the war
United States. 1t took our govern
ment four years to get over the tiasco
at Bull Run. 4 defeat at the start of
this present war would have been dis
heartcning to the last degree, and
would have invited foreign interven-
ton to stop the war before anything
practical for God and humanity 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 exploded battlcship fresh
in the minds of the world. il required
no ordinary courage to sail into the
harbor of Manila and attack the Span
ish shippinr. That harbor. crowded
with sunken vcaponry of death; to cn-
ter it was running a ris'- ,..sugh to
make all nations shiver. But Manila
is ours. and the blow has shaken to the
foundation the palaces of Madrid, an!
for policy's sake &c doubtful nations
are on our side. For Commodore Dew.
ev and all who followed him let the
whole nation utter its most resouud-
ing huzza; and more than that. let us
thank the Lord of hosts for his guiding
and protecting power. praise We the
Lord, Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord?"
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is on the side of
the rirht. Again and again have lib
ertv and Justice and suffering human
ity had the odds against them. 1t was
so when Benhadad's Syrian hosts. who
were in the wrong. at Apheck. came
upon the small regiments of Israel.
who were in the right, the Bible put
ting it in one of those graphic SEN
fences for which the book is remark
able: The children of Israel pitched
before them like two little hocks of
kids, but the Svrians filed the
whole country IL was SO in the
awful defeat of the Lords people at
Gilboa and Meriddo. IL was SO recent.
lv when gallant and plorio,s Greece
was in conflict with gigantic Moham-
mechanism and the nayies of Europe
lowering about the Bosporus were in
practical protection of the Turkish
Government, fresh from the slaughter
of 100. 600 Armenians. II was SO when
in 1916. the IS colonies, with no war
SHINING and n few undr;lled and moor.
ly-clad soldiers, were brought into con.
test with the mightiest navy of all the
earth and an army that commanded
the admiration of nations. 1t was SO
when Poland was crushed. 1t was SO
when Hungary went under. 1t has
been so during all the struggles hereto
fore for Cuban independence. But
now it is our powerful navy
against a feeble group of incom-
petent ships, crawling across the
Atlantic ocean to meet our fiotilla,
which have enough guns to send them
as completely under as when the Red
sea submerged Pharaoh's army. 1t is
so in these times, when only a few
thousand Spaniards at most can reach
our hemisphere, and we 60 out to NEE I
them with la5, 900 armed men, to be
backed up eedily with 500, 900 more
if needed. We do not have to ask for
any miracle, but only a fair shot at
the ships headed this wav, and time
enough to demoiish them. This is one
of the cases in the worlds history
where might and right are shoulder to
shoulder.
Another ALIENATION ;s in tho fact
that sucb an atrocitv as the destrpc.
ton of a66 lives in Havana barbor in
time of neace can not with ;pn,r;t,.
IN, wrougb, in this aero OF tho =, ,rld;s
c;v;lizat;op Tho ones,;or ne 20 ,vbo
ala that ;nf.rr,l;sr, i ,n,, I'll so,,Iod
10 need any frr,b.r dis.,,ss;nn ~,
what n small crime II vas comn,rod
with the systematic putt;po in.