New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-06-25
81 Will Be as Harsh as Truth and as
UnCOmprOmising as Justice"
GOOD ENOUGH MOTTO FOR THE
AMERICAN NATION.


In the National Single Taxer @
April 13, on the anniversary of tn
fall of Sumter, and one day befOr
that of Lincoln S assassination, Mr
William Lloyd Garrison condemne
this column for its jingo spirit an
sensational writing. The "com
ments, " which he denounced
were conceived in the Gar
risonian school in which tn
writer was born. Nearly three scor
and ten years ago VIM. Lloyd Gar
rison was denounced for his sensa
tiOnal writing and indiscriminat
denunciation. He replied in tn
spirit of Luther, 81 will be as harsl
as truth and as uncOmpromising a.
Justice On July 4th, 1929, tn,
anniversary of the birth of our free
dom, he demanded that the ambas
sadors of Christ, especially, "pro
claim liberty to the captive and thu
opening of the prison to them tina,
are bound On April ~, 1852, he
proclaimed publicly the right OF
every human being to preserve his
liberty, at any sacrifice of the lives
of his oppressors. and that the state
which failed to guarantee liberty
within its borders, was responsible
for all resulting horrors. His life
was along these lines.
The divine spirit which possessed
William Lloyd Garrison was that
which guided JeffersOn's hand to
write the Declaration of Indepen-
dence; which famed forth in Ply
mouth Church on April ii, 1861
when Henry Ward Beecher preach
ed from the text, "Speak unto the
children of Israel that they 60 for
ward ~ which inspired the Gettys-
burg prayer of Lincoln; which
sustained John Brown during his
march to Immortality via Harper S
Ferry and the scaffold, and which
nerves the arm of Maximo Gomez
to strike for freedom with as pure
a patriotism as moved our quaker
Whittier to write of Massachusetts,
''No slave hunt in our borders,
No pirate on our strand,
No fetters in the Bay State,
No slaves upon our land ~
Thirty years ago the commerce
of Cuba with the United States was
carried on chiefly in the steamers
Of the writer, and he learned some
thing Of the brutal nature of tho
nation whose very sports are in
human. He remembers the merci-
less murder of innocent Cuban stu
dents, the chain gang for children,
the beautiful Cuban homes, closed,
desolate, and in mourning for the
loved ones for whose ransom moth
ers and fathers had vainly offered
the weight of the victims in gold.
He forgets not the governmental
of his own friends,
and the cruelty and corruption
which dominated every Spanish
official act. During each week of
The three years since it became the
luty of the United States to at least
the Cuban patriots, more
ION -cOmbatants have been murder
I'd by the nation of the Inquisition
han were killed of soldiers during
he battle of Gettysburg. During
hese three years six times as many
human beings have been murdered
)y Spain in Cuba as were killed in
,attle during the four years war of
he rebellion, out of nearly three
million of men under arms on the
Union side.
No more sacred duty ever devOlved
lpon a nation than that which rests
lpOn the United States, of removing
orever from this continent the
spanish blot upon it's civilization.
10 thought of revenge, no feeling
'ut pity for the ignorant Spanish
onscripts, finds Judgement in the
writer's heart. The murder of the
nen of the Maine should not be
evenged. 1t should be avenged
y removing from Spain the temp
alton to duplicate the atrocity on
his hemisphere. Spain, by the
and Of her officials, blew up our
attleship, and the ear of the man
rho doubts it is deaf to evidence,
nd his mind fortified against the
ntrance Of reason. Each days
clay in righteously reckoning with
pain for that unspeakable infamy,
as burdened the conscience Of
pain and the wisdom of Mckinley
nth more than 26G additional
lurders. There are selfish souls
Tho exclaim. "But they are only
iggers Although untrue, this
pmark has a curiously familiar
ing to us, Mr.. Garrison.
Every tribute to peace by Mr..
'arrison is an argument for the
xpulsion Of Spain from this con-
nent. War is not the sum of all
vils. 1t did not put Mckinley
/ the White House, a Hanna in
he Senate, or a Dingley in the
louise of Representatives. These
ere victories of peace. A protec-
We tariff is a peace product, for
hich our pension frauds were per-
as an excuse. The burden
I war for humanity may well in
)ire the people to strike peaceful
low for their own emancipation
'0m commercial slavery.
Let all single takers adopt the
motto: II will be as
arsh as truth and as uncompromis-
e as justice. Expediency is an
,bestos product, or it would have
erished in its birth. One vote of
le people against the injustice Of
king one man for the benefit of
,Other, Of crooked taxation, Of
'ncealed taxation. of class taxa !
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