The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-10
THE WAR HAS PAID
Congressman Dolliver Says the United
States Is a Winner

NEW YORK, Aug 9.-Congressman j. II.
Dolliver of Iowa. in the course of a lecture
at Ocean Grove N. j.. said last night:
1--WE have gained in our war with Spain
infinitely more than we have lost, and the
unerrng instinct at large whose sovereign
purpose overruled the Judgment Of the
statesmen in the initial stages of the con-
fiict has given us a new national prestige
at home and abroad-to ourselves a new
basis Of self respect, to the nations of
Europe a new and healthful insight into
our resources and power. The world will
be slow to make quarrel with a commun-
ity than can raise 500, 900 without the
aid Of syndicates at home or abroad within
two weeks by popular loan.
1.-The Cabinets of the old world will hold
q long session before allowing themselves
to be drawn into collision with a nation
which, In Ave years will have at its dis
posal steel feet of which the Brooklyn
and Oregon are only the types and fore
runners. The war has perfected our
strength at home by the total obliteration
Of the lines of sectional prejudices marked
upon our maps by the great struggles of
the last generation. General Joe Wheeler,
In the thick of the fight at Santiago, stands
for the larger patriotism, North and South,
which has turned It's back upon the past
and opened its vision to the sublime destiny
of reunited people.
1.-The same influences which have re-
stored the perfect union of our country
have brought back also the harmony to
which broad-minded men Of both coun-
/. tries have long looked forward In the re-
lations of the speaking world. At
the outbreak Of the Spanish war the rest
less diplomacy of Europe was circumvent-
ed by the prompt notice of the English
government that any constraint placed by
the powers upon the government Of the
United States would have to count upon the
disapproval and active hostilities of the
government and people of England and
thus, by simple act of national fellowship,
the worn and threadbare pretudices of a
century yield In both countries to a recogni-
ton of the common cause which the Eng
lish race scattered throughout the earth Is
now to make for liberty and civilization.
THE peace which ID now al hand i'm
poses upon our government problems vastly
more difficult than the prosecution of the
war 1t puts the destinies of the Spanish
colonies at once in our hands 1t gives us
lOFtO ftlCb-tHc government Va NHiNih Will
probably be an easy task-and requires lis
to establish stable and orderly govern
ment in Cuba. agreeable to the people of
the island. We have already raised the
flag of the United States over the Hawaiian
Islands, now familiar with republican in
situations. Admiral Dewey. in the harbor
of Manila, by the most notable exploit in
history, has been brought face to face with
the problem of the Philippines.
1.-TWO things the American people are all
agreed upon. The first is that we ought not
to desert our insurgent allies in the hour
of victory and leave them TO the tender
merces of an unrestrained Spanish des-
potism, and the second is that the ques-
ton is strictly an American one, and that
what we do shall not be constrained by the
interference of any European prince or po-
tentate whatsoever.
''It may be counted as certain that the
flag of the United States Is In the Philip
pines to stay, and that whether our gov
eminent assumes sovereignty over the
whole group or not. we will secure such a
naval and commercial station there as will
enable us to administer TO the needs of our
commerce and become the agents and
guardians of the peace and liberty Of the
islands.
Prom the beginning to the end Of the