The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-26
NEVER A GOOD WAR
Is What Pious Professor
Elliott Thinks.
BUT SINFUL AS WAR Is
It's a Mighty Sight Worse to
Take Pay For It.

AshfieId, Mass, Aug 25.-The twentieth
annual dinner in aid Of Sandersen acad-
envy was given this afternoon, with
Charles Elliott Norton, professor emerit-
Jus Of fine arts of Harvard university, pre-
siding There were addresses by Rev.
John W. Chadwick of Brooklyn; G. Stan
! ley Hall, president of Clark university. Of
| Worcester; Rev. DR.. P. S. Moxom of
| Springfield; Sherman S. Rogers OF Buff
falo and Booker T. Washington, the prin-
cpal Of the Tuskogee institute, Alabama.
The principal address, was by Professor
Norton, who devoted himself to discus
sion of the late war. He referred 10 the
academy's prosperity during the year and
continued as follows:
And our hearts have been heavy with
new weights of care and the very bright
ness of the sunshine has but deepened by.
contrast the cloud of our sorrowful
houghts-sorrowfu that our nation
should have turned its back upon its Old
ideals. and, standing at the parting ways,
Should have chosen the ancient path, ia
miliar to the old world, worn by the
bloody feet of hapless generations, and
which has never led to anything but III
the path of aggressive war, of foreign con-
quest, of alien territorial aggrandiZement;
the path that leads from trouble to
trouble
The black and brutal visage OF war
has indeed been lightened up from time
TO time during the summer by The gallant
deeds of our men in service and by the
good onduct and marvellous god fortune
Of our navy and by the general temper
Of humanity displayed so soon as the
actual fight was over by both officers and
men. But it has taken on a deeper shade
of gloom from the needless sufferings
which our brave soldiers have had to
endure from the lack of due provision for
their needs, alike in camp, on field and in
hospital. It has been a miserable spec
tacle of incompetency for which account
must be rendered and penalty exacted."
After a review of the events leading UP
to the war, Professor Norton said:
Peace has nominaMy come. The actual
conflict has ended. but less than 100 days
of war has resulted in revolution in the
United States. The foundations on which
the republic has rested have been unset
tled the principles upon which the gov
eIHHlcHl UopeIlOS nave D6eH we
have undertaken obligations which Meth
er our institutions nor our national char
acter enable US properly to discharge; we.
the one great non-military power in the
world, have suddenly joined the ranks of
the nations burdened with great armies
and naYies; we have loaded ourselves with
an enormous additional debt and with an
enormous increase of annual expenditures,
a permanent oppression TAX upon the in
dustry of the people and. further, what
ever disposition may be made of the Phil
ippines, we are already, through holding
them and claiming the right to dispose Of
them, been brought into entangling rela-
lions with the nations of the old world,
and run the risk of losing the nIestima-
BILE boon which has hitherto been ours-of
freedom from complications Of the inter
national politics of the old world, and Of
remaining the independent masters Of our
own fortunes. 1t is indeed a momentouS
revolution"