Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-05
Mr.. polliver's Eloquent Argument.

MT, UUttlH6T EJuQuOHl nj HuHICuls
One of the most eloquent speeches that
has been made during the present ses-
sion of Congress was that delivered by
Mr.. Deliver Ia Republican Of Iowa. when
the new revenue bill was pending before
the House of Representatives last week.
He was listened to with close attention and
was frequently interrupted by applause.
In part he said -
"Men have risen in this debate to
threaten those OF us who are responsible
for the introduction of this measure with
the penalties Of public indignation and
warning the Administration of the popu-
lar resentment that is to follow the enact
ment of this law. do not believe word
of it. If there ever was case in the his
tory ofthe world where situation amount
ing to declaration of war was the direct
result of the wish and purpose of the peo-
pie themselves it is in this case.
cit cannot be said that the President
of the United States has plunged his
country into war. Instead Of having tried
to inhame the public opinion of the coun-
try, he has tried to moderate and direct it.
Instead of throwing away the prospect Of
d peaceful settlement, he has allied him
self with every honorable influence i'll
favor of such solution of the perilous
questions involved. He has been malign-
ed by his enemies and misunderstood by
his friends because he had the wisdom to
inquire, the prudence to prepare and the
craftsmanship to look before and after.
"[f it should turn out that the people
of the United States have Numbered, if
the time should ever come when the bur-
den. the bloodshed and expense of our
Cuban protectorate stirs up the opposi-
ton of the country, there is at least one
man in the public life of these times who
will be able to look his countrymen square
ly in the face and say to them : Il did the
best l could to save my fellow-ctizens
from these disasters and these burdens
81 do not predict the size and the cost
of the undertaking in which we are en-
barked, but my conviction is that we will
gain all that we lose and infinitely more.
Two things we have already gained, and
one is the outspoken sympathy Of this
great English-speaking race of which we
are part, another is larger sense of the
unity of the American people-a unity
that has already killed the spirit of Sec
tionalism-taken the poison out of parti-
san strife and brought in the better ERA of
American patriotism.
"Nor do l think that our people will
ever regret the part they have assumed.
There are times in the life of nations when
they moved upon impulses so pure that
the appreciation of the national conscience
is a full reward for sacrifice, however
grievous.
ave have not coveted SPANS territory.
We have not INSTRUCTED her administra-
ton. We have not withheld from her
dynasty or from her people the offices
Of international courtesy and good will.
If in times of insurrection and disorder
we have interposed to promote the tran
quility of the island, our mediation has
never concealeda hostile spirit. Nor have
we ever laid the weight Of little finger on
the sovereignty of Spain.
"When these days of feyerish and bab-
bling criticisms are forgotten, the world
will hold in increasing honor that brave
and kindly man who, in the midst Of an
unexampled clamor, his lips sealed by the
very nature of his duty, has had the moral
heroism, while the smallest chance re-
manned to stand.as the Magistrate of a
Christian people exercising the influence
of his Office for an honorable peace.
''The fact that all these humane aspira-
tons of our Government, known and read
by all men, have called out no adequate
response either from Havana or Madrid,
verifes the picture of Spain drawn by the
historian Buckle-'She sleeps on unmoved,
unheeding, impassive, receiving no inn
preston from the outside world, and max
ing no impression upon it,
Given the events of the last two
months, in which our people have waited
in pitiful silence, while board of officers
famous and honored in the service have
taken testimony that tells the awful
tragedy of our Inflated man-of-war have
not awakened her.
MONEY CAN'T ATONE FOR THE MAINE.
ave cannot stop now to put forward
a claim to be reckoned i'll the coinage Of a
bankrupt treasury for the noble ship which
lies to-day broken and dismantled in the