The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

OF common destiny-or I'm one word of a
common racial sentiment.
We hear mucn in these latter days on
account of this better understanding of an
offensive and defensive alliance between
these Two peoples. Such an alliance, l nope
Will not come about. We do not want for
nal alliance with Great Britain, and be-
lieve that Great Britain does not want for
NAL alliance with us. But We do want an ALL
ance of sympathy, an alliance of interests
an alliance of civilization an alliance of
world purpose an alliance of kindly under
standing, affection and fraternity, for such
an alliance would be an Unreasonable bless
ing to humanity.
1T will be great day for the world when
England and America stand together Shout
der to shoulder and heart to heart in as
sertion of the right and in vindication OF
the great and fundamental principles of po-
litical justice. 1t will be great day when
they will take upon themselves the task OF
the worlds education, of the worlds liberia
ton; when they will make it an integral
factor of their national policies to equip
all oppressed peoples for sef-goveTnment.
and when they shall hold it to be their mis-
sion to enlighten and to redeem into larger
life all the dark and oppressed places and
peoples of this earth.
GERMANY IN ALLIANCE, TOO.
And let us hope, too that in this sympa-
thetic alliance we will find at last allied
not only England and America, but Ger
many also, for Germany belongs to US and
we belong to her. She belongs to us be-
cause we are of her blood. England is al
most altogether Germanic in her origin and
history, and America, also, is almost alto
gether Germanic in her origin and history.
All the great onward moving forces of the
world to-day in nations and in empires are
born of the loins of our common Teuton
mother The German nation is great ma
tion--it is progressive, intellectual, artistic
scientific. 1t has given to the world many
of its profoundest thinkers, many of its
greatest poets and the most of its sovereign
and lordly composers and musicians: She
belongs to the new movement, and with
her included in this sympathetic alliance of
which we speak, this trinity of powers,
America, England and Germany, would be
the benignant arbiter of all the affairs of
the nations and an instrument and guaran-
tee of universal, all-pervading peace.
Were this alliance to come to pass many
Of ' the earth a Would oi DC Cease to be. When
America England and Germany understand
one another and move in concert, actuated
with the high motive of the worlds eman-
cipation, there will be no more territorial
aggression no more oppression of the weak
by the strong no more robbery of China
by Russia, no more Armenian outrageS, no
more ravageS and deSolationS of the light
less goddess Turk, no oppressive ruth
less rule of any kind anywhere throughout
.'And. as this federation of forces would
make for justice, so also would IT make for
civilization, fol-. prosperity; for .self-govern,
light and liberty. 1t is great mis-
take to think that any. people ii, in
be barbarous: it is great mistake to think
that the Tagals of the Philippines must nee
mistake to think that the lower races of
mankind are not amenable to culture and to
education. In forty years America has made
the negro People n to grea6 eTen ana
believe there is no people SO low that they
cannot be lifted within a few generations
up to the place where they shall be indus
trious, Intelligent self-governng, order-lov-
ing and capable of approaching all the adj
vantages that come with larger liberty and
increasing knowledge
1.-The reason that the world is dark in its
low places is because we keep 1t dark; the
reason that the world is ignorant in its low
places is because we keep it ignorant; the
reason the Philippines are superstitious and
savage is because they have been held in
superstition and savagery by an alien and
a foreign power. The reason that the great
masses of Russia are ignorant is because
the government of Russia does not enlight-
en-. The reason that the lower parts OF nu u.
given a chance to rise. And it is in order
that they may have this chance; that the
whole world may be progressively enlight-
ened. progressively liberated progressively
democratized, that ! hope and pray for the
| realization of the near union of all Germanic
peoples. The Germanic peoples, including
America, England and Germany, are right
fully the rulers of the world, for they. are
in the forefront, far in the forefront, Of the
ing, they are the free, they are the right
eous, they are the Protestant, they are the
man-loving the god-fearing; they are the
real Christian nations, and to them with
America leading, the rule Of humanity be-
longs.
''Hence you see we have as a nation great
| reason for thanksgiving this Sabbath day,
great and deep reason for gratitude to God.
But while we are full of the spirit of thanks
giving for the mercies of the Infinite, let us
not also forget to be humble. Let us go
down as a people upon our knees in rever-
ent contemplation of the tremendous task
imposed upon US by the fortunes of war,
the task of world emancipation. Hitherto
Americas sphere has been national now 1t
political institutions, her freedom, her gen.
ius for order. her, talent for government.
her democracy, belong to all the ATTITUDES
and longitudes of earth, to the farthest east
and west to the EXTREMIST north and south.
May God give her vision that she may see
with clear eye the great titanic duty that
the Eternal has imposed upon her, and may
she meet this duty in her own superb and
queenly way This should be the dream, the
prayer Of every American who loves with a
deep love the greatest and fairest nation
that the Eternal has thus far called into the
light of day.