Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-05-26

full navy against feeble group of
incompetent ships, crawling across the
Atlantic ocean to meet our fotillas.
which have enough guns to send them
as completely under as when the Red
sea submerged Pbaraoh's army. It 10
so in these times, when only few
thousand Spaniards can reach our
! hemisphere, and we go out to meet
them with l25, 900 armed men, to be
backed up speedily with 500, 900 more II
needed. We do not have to ask for any
miracles, but only a fair shot at the
ships headed this way and time enough
TO demolish them. This is one of the
caseses in the worlds history where
might and right are shoulder to
| shoulder.
Another alienation is in the fact
that such an atrocity as the destruc-
ton of 266 lives in Havana harbor in
time of peace can not with impunity
be wrought in this age of the worlds
civilization. The question as to who
did that internalism Is too we'll settled
to need any further discussion. But
what a small crime it was, compared
with the systematic putting into their
graves of hundreds Of thousands OF Gu.
bans, or leaving them unburied for the
buzzards to take care of. If Spain
could destroy 200, 900 men. women and
children, the slaughter of 2s6 people
was not a very great undertaking.
But this one last deed will result in
the liberation of Cuba, and the driving
of Spain from this hemisphere and the
overthrow Of that government, which
will soon drop to pieces If it does not
go down under bombardment of iu-
suited nations.
There was danger that the long-con-
tinued oppression of our neighbors in
Cuba might be continued from genera
ton to generation without sufficient
protest on our part and the pronounced
eXecration of people on both sides of
the Atlantic, but that bursting volcano
of destruction in the harbor of Havana
fred the nation and shocked the whole
civilized world. All nations will learn
that such an act can not be repeated
without the anathema of all Christen-
dom. As individual criminals must be
punished for the public good, and we
have for them courts of oyer and ter
miner, and penitentiaries, and electric
chairs, and hangman's gallows,
SO governments committing high
crimes against God and humanity must
be scourged and hung up for the
worlds Indignation. When in Span.
ish waters our battleship, looking
after our commercial interests and in
tending nothing but quietude, was
hurled into demolition, and the men
on board, without time 10 utter one
word OF prayer, were dashed into the
eternal world, the doom of the reign
ing house of Spain was pronounced in
tones louder than the thunder which
that night rolled out over the sea
Another alienation is the fact that
we have God to go TO in behalf of all
those of our countrymen who may be
in especia! exposure at the front, for
we must admit tho perils. 1t is no
trltlng thing for 100, 900 young men to
be put outside of home restraints and
sometimes into evil compauionship.
Many Of the brave of the earth are not
tho good of the earth. To be in the
same tent with those who have no re-
gard ior God Or home; to hear their
holy religion sometimes slurred at; to
be placed under influences calculated
to make one reckless; to have no Sab
bath, except such sabbath as in most
encampments amounts to no Sab
bath ut all; to go out from
homes where all sanitary laws are
observed into surroundings where
questions of health are never dis
cussed; to invade climes where pesti-
Iencc holds possession; to make long
marches under blistering skies; to
stand on deck and in the fields under
tire, at the mercy of shot and shell--we
must admit that those exposed need
especial care, and to the Omuipresent
tod we have right to commend them,
and will commend them. Postal COM
munication may be interrupted, and
letters started from camps or homes
may not arrive ut the right destination,
but, however, far away our loved ones
may be from us, and however wide and
deep the seas that separate us, we may
hold communication with them via the
| throne OF God.
| A shipwreclled sailor was found
| floating on u raft near the coast of Cali
toruta. While in hospital he told his
experience, and said that he had COM
panion ON the same raft for some time.
! While that companion was dying of
thirst he said To him: George, where
are you going?' and the dying sailor
said Il hope | am going to God. :"
If you do" said the rescued
sailor, "will you ask Him to
send some water?' After the
death of his companion, the sur
vivor said, the rain came in torrents,
and slaled his thirst and kept hi m
alive until he was taken to safety. The
survivor always thought it was in an
swer to the message he had sent to
Heaven asking for water, Thank God
we may have direct and instantaneous
communication with the Lord Almighty
through Jesus Christ, His only begot-
tau Son, and in that faith we may Sc
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