Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-02
NORTON DISCUSSES THE WAR.
Professor Whom Senator HOar LambaSted
Heard From Again.

.Ashield, Mass, Aug. 26.-The twenty-siXth
annual dinner in aid of Sanderson academy was
eiven Yesterday afternoon with Chas. Elliott
Norton, professor emeritus of fine arts OF Har-
ward university, pesiding. There were address
es by Rev. John w. Chadwick of Brooklyn; u.
Stanley Hall, president Of Clark university OF
Worchester; Rev. S. p. Moxam of Springfield;
Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo, and Booker T.
Washington, the principal of the Tuskogee IN
.stitute, Alabama The principal address was
ty Professor Norton, who devoted himself to
discussion of the late war. He referred TO the
academy's prosperity during the year, and con
tinued as follows:
"And vet our hearts have been heavy with
nav weight of care and the very brightness OF
tise sunshine has but deepened by contrast the
dlaud of our sorrowful oughts--sorrowiui tnat
on, nation should have turned It's back on Its
old ideals, and standing at the parting ways,
should have chosen the ancient path, familiar
TO the old world, worn by the bloody feet OF
hapIess generations, and which has never led to
airytl,ing but ill--the path of aggressive war;
of foreign conquest of alien territorial aggrand-
izenlent, the path that leads from trouble to
trouble.
"The black and brutal visage Of war has in
deed been lightened up from time to time dur
ing the summer by the gallant deeds OF our men
in service and by the good and marvellous gooo
fortune of our navy and by the good temper OF
humanity displayed so soon as the actual night
was over by both officers and men. But 1t has
taken on deeper shade of gloom ttom the
needless suferings which our brave soldiers
have had to endure from the lack of due pro-
vision for their needs alike in camp, Oh the
field and in the hospital. 1t has been a mlser-
able spectacle of incompetency, for which ac-
count must be rendered and penalty exacted."
After review of the events leading up to
the war Prof. Norton said: "Peace has noml-
nallv come. The actual conflict has ended,
but less than 10 days OF war has resulted IN
revolution in the United States. The tounda-
tons on which the republic has rested has been
unsettled; the principles upon which the gov
ernment depends have been violated; we have
undertaken obligations which neither our lnstl-
.tutiors nor our national character enable us
properly to discharge; we, the great non
tary power of the world, have suddenly joined
Che ranks of the nations burdened with the
r-eat armies and naves; we have loaded our
{ elves with an enormous additional debt and
VI eth an increase of annual expenditures, a
D. armament oppressive tax upon the industry OF
th e people, and further whatever disposition
IN: w be made of the Philippines, we are already,
tn, uugh holdiding them, brought into entang-
limo alliances with the nations of the old world
and nun the risk of losing the inestimable boon
,yhi IN has hitherto been ours, of freedom Ill the
com plications of the international politics O
the Nd world and of remaining the lndepend
ent !, 1asters of our own fortunes. It IS, indeed
. mo mentous revolution.