The herald., 1898-05-10


old. Truth came out of its prison cell and
set about the conversion of its jailer. The
world awoke to find itself afiame with
new conviction: that men are created
free and equal; that society is another
name for humanity; that there is peo-
pie, and that government is the peoples
right.
But It was not In Europe or in the decay
ing east that the problem of higher civ
ilization was to be wrought out. During
the countless ages of Asia's splendor,
when, cleaning with oriental luxury, she
marched at the head of the nations;
through the years when the sun Of
Grecian glory lighted all the world:
all through the centuries when
from the rivers to the ends Of the
earth the CLINT of Roman eagles marked
her universal empire; during the long
agony of dissolution, when the Holy En-
pire slowly crumbled to pieces and the
fragments were writhing in fierce contest
for mastery-all these countless years the
Almighty had, hidden away in the vast
wilderness of the waters, New Eden,
reserved to be the home of the new hu-
manity. In anticipation Of the nation yet
to be, He had fashioned continent, sowed
1t with forests, watered it with living
streams, and. following out the eternal
hills, He made them the treasure vaults
of the coming freemen. Then, when the
hour of destiny had struck, the cloudy
curtains of the sea rolled back and New
World stood forth, whose meaning in the
affairs of men we are but now discover
Ing.
Nations, like men, are born in the an
guish of travail. Out of the womb of
hunger and cold and oppression was this
nation brought forth, and War stood
sponsor at her christening. But she lived.
Lived? Look at her history, written upon
4 single page of the centuries: it stands
as the wonder-tale of the world, the mira
Gle Of the ages, with every line of 1t the
record of step In human progress, and
not solitary word Of 1t stained with dis
honor!
To America was intrusted the solemn
mission of bearing a new and holy prin-
ciple to the peoples of the EARTH the prin-
ciple of political freedom. How we'll she
has discharged her trust the changes In
the attitude Of the governing to the gov
erned in all the civilized world are the best
evidence. But having been faithful over
the few things, the Almighty is about to
make her ruler over many things. The
hour of a new ministry is at hand.
For hundred years we have gone our
way, holding with steadfastness to the
policy Of isolation laid down by the found
ers Of our government. We have stood
aside In silence while the nations of the
old world have wrought out and fought
out their vexed and vexing problems. We
ho, toho Ho te
they have plundered the weak and parted
the spoils among the strong. We have
heard the trampling of their feet as they
have marched to conquest and to acquisi-
tion, but no lust for martial power or ter
ritorial possession has infiamed our breast
and burned away our morals. We have
not gathered q standing army Of many
thousands; we have not builded a mighty
navy, nor have we looked out upon the
.ands across the sea from behind great
ranks of battlemented coast. But when
the cry of a helpless people at our very
doors trembled in our ears; when we saw
I stricken land, pillaged and ravaged al
most under the shadow of our flag, its
men murdered, its women debauched and
its children starved before our very eyes,
and all to glut the Unsuitable greed Of a
degenerate and heartless governmental
policy-then, this free America, which
could not be moved by lust for spoil or
for possession, lifted its mighty arm to
protect the oppressed and, with spirit
hat is divinely grand, she said to the
oppressor: "Jn the name of a Just God
and Of righteous manhood, Thou shalt
notv' 77Tsa-''" 7'
A hermit nation until now, pursuing
policy Of Isolation, which the events of
hese days make no longer possible, the
problems of the world are our problems,
md nothing that affects the destiny of
men is alien to us. The old policy of iso-
iation is at an end. Shoulder to shoulder
with England, with men of the same blood,
10 we march to the front But opportu-
mites create obligations. We need not only
that courage displayed when the regiment
Of our sons went forth to conflict, but we
need also that lonely valor which, In times
Of peace-wanting the inspiration that
comes when the bugler calls to battle and
the blood rushes like fire through each
,etty artery-stands fast amid the greed
md selfshness of daily life for that civic
md political righteousness which is peo-
ole's richest possession. 1t is not enough
hat a nation be peaceful: she must also
be just. If there is a call for the daring
which makes and keeps a nation power
full, there is a call, too, for the quiet cour-
age of conviction which makes and keeps
a nation pure.
o my countrymen, let us learn the les
son that Is being spelled before our eyes.
Out Of this baptism of blood and fire let
there come forth a new America, with new
md holy ideals of the meaning of state
.,ood and with high and sacred principles
If national life. Let there come forth a
stronger and wiser people. mighty of mind,
mighty of heart, to take her place in the
,volution Of a truer humanity. The ma
ton that would be great must first be
ighteous. Let us give ourselves to this
and of ours, not alone to die for her honor,
but to live for her glory.
Judge Harris
Mr. Howard's telling address was fol-
owed by a storm of applause. Col. Otis
hen stepped forward and introduced w.
4. Harris as true "son of the SOUTH"
Mr. Harris gave q poetic description of
he Olympia's steaming into the harbor OF
Manila. and when Spain saw her, he said,
,he knew she had business on her hands.
Then began the struggle between the nine
.eenth and the twelfth centuries That
,plendid, awful drama was of short dura-
lon The waters closed over the repre-
,entatives of the past. as the waters of the
Red sea closed over the Egyptians 4O0D
years ago. When the battle was over every
brave American officer and every brave