The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05

hope and home. of liberty and love, by
the highest ambitions and dearest de-
sires of mankind. they faced their foe.
Throughout the many bloody conflicts
which ensued. at Lexington and Bun
ker Hill, at White Plains and Trenton.
at Saratoga and Stony Point, at Ben
nington and other famous fields, till
the British forces stacked their arms at
Yorktown, these patriots fought n
fell that this young nation might be
free. Though thousands of our revo-
lutionary heroes are nameless to the
present generation, the name of WASH
irgton, a synonym of American patri-
otism, will ever be a pass
port for eacn of them to the eternal
gratitude of the American ~people-that
name revered alike in the home OF the
lowly and the abode of the opulent, the
luster of which will grow brighter n
brighter even unto the perfect day. Re-
Numbering these gallant struggles OF
our forefathers in the days of the
luton for natural and individual lib
erty. IL was in response to the dictates
of humanity that the American people.
through their duly constituted authori-
ties. demanded of the Spanish mon
archy freedom and independence for the
oppressed inhabitants of cuba.
The story of Cuba.
THE story Of that unhappy island is
one of the saddest chapters in the his
tory of mans cruelty to man. The
bleaching bones of 400, 900 men, women
and children on Cuban soil. starved and
slaughtered by the very government
whose duty IL was to protect them. are
400. 900 witnesses to the eternal justice
of the cause which precipitated the
present conflict with the government of
Spain. The tales of horror which come
from Cuba from the lips of responsible
eyewitness of the scenes of suffering,
desolation and death, are proper to be
recorded in the same category with the
brutalities Nero inflicted upon the SIM
ple-hearted Christians of his day, or to
the wholesale slaughter of the Armen-
ANS which so recently shocked the great
heart and conscience of the civilized
world. In short the outrages and afro
cities inflicted by Spain upon her Cuban
colonists hav so violated all rules OF
conduct-human and divine-as to prop
erly place her IN the list of the barbar-
Gus nations of the earth.
with these scenes occurring at our
very door, within 100 miles of our coast,
we would have been little less guilty
than Spain herself had we not k the
step we did, and demanded that the
butchery should cease. Accordingly
the resolutions of the present ongress
were passed: the declaration of war
was made and the great republic once
again engaged in a conflict of arms in
behalf of liberty. justice and the rights
of man.
Whatever differences of opinion may
exist among our citizens as to the
methods employed to conduct and carry
on that war, or as to the manner OF
raising the necessary revenues to defray
the expenses, l believe they are unani-
nous i'm their determination to equip
the government with all the money and
all the men necessary to bring the con-
flict to a successful conclusion for the
American arms.
"Could o have witnessed the in
spring scene in the house of represen-
tatives when, by a unanimous vote of
that body, $50, 900, 900 was appropriated
and placed at the disposal of the presi-
dent for the national defense, any doubt
which might previously have been en-
tertained as to the unanimity of con-
gress in its determination to vote all
money necessary for the war would
have been dispelled.
"On the general proposition of sus-
tanning the government in both the civil
and military departments there is no
majority or minority. There is only dt-
vision as to the methods by which the
necessary money should be raised. As
those methods constitute important is
sues between the party of the admins
tration and the opposition, ii would be
manifestly improper on this occasion for
me TO discuss them. The same patriotic
response was made by the people TO the
call for troops as was made by. congress
i'm its appropriation of money for war
expenses. Without regard to section or
political settlement each state made
prompt response to the calls OF the
president for men. Each state will
make similar response to any additional
calls which may yet be made.
Montana's Grand Record.
while as Americans thiss splendid ex-
hibition of loyalty to the nation is high
ly gratifying, may / be permitted
to say without invidious distinction as
TO the other states, that no state in the
union made more prompt answer to that
call than did ours; and may l venture
to predict that when the supreme test
comes. when the shock of battle is on,
when the American volunteers meet the
trained soldiery of Spain. when the de-
tenders of freedom face the forces of
tyranny either upon the desolated plains
of Cuba. or on the thickly populated
islands of the Philippines, no troops
from N state will exhibit greater 10y
atty, heroism or courage than the gal
liant boys in blu from the grand young
commonwealth of Montana. And may
the God of battles be with them!
The declared urpose of the present
wal with Spain are as high holy as
ever prompted one nation to draw the
sword against another. We announced
to the world that ii was in the name
and i'm behalf of humanity that we as
sembled i'm hostile array our fleets upon
the seas and marched our armies
against the soldiers of Spain. Tha
declaration sent a thrill throughout the
civilized world, as ii was realized that
another contest between liberty and OPP
preston was about To be submitted to
the stern arbitrament of war. The great
heart OF the liberty-loving people of the
world beat in unison with ours. They
read in the resolutions of congress our
distinct disclaimer of any purpose of ac-
quiring Cuba as a part of the possession
of the United States, and they had faith
in the honesty and integrity of the peo-
pie of the great republic whose govern
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