The Progress., 1898-05-21

'iihDs 10 see Wnetner tDey can again keel
step in a march and are testing their eye
sight toE;:7d whether they can again look
along tbs Ss}n barrel to successfully take
aim and fire. The old war cry OF ''On to
Richmond!' and "On to Washington %
has become the warcry of "On to Ha.
vana' "On to Puerto Rico!' "On to the
Philippine islands!" The two old rusty
swords that in other days clashed at Muir
freesboro and South Mountain and Atlanta
are now lifted to strike down .,snic
| denominations.
| An Cnselfish War
| Another alienation of the :.
| TACT that 1t is the most unsel1!et.N
| ages. While the commercial rul.
! wronged citizens viii be vinGitul,.
| Is not the chief idea of this war 1t.
| rescue OF hundreds Of thousands of DC
from starvation and multiform maltr
ment. A friend who went out under |,
nag OF the Red Cross two years ago to as
| suage suffering in Armenia, and who has
been on the same mission, under the same
nag, In Cuba, says that the sufferings in
Armenia were comedy and farce COM
pared with the greater suffsrings of Cuba.
AT least 200, 900 graves are calling to us to
come on and remember by what process
their occupants died. 1t is the twentieth
century crying out to the nineteenth: 'Do
you mean to pass down to US the curse
with which you have been blasted? Or
will you let me begin under new auspices
and turn the island Of desolation into an
island Edenic?"
1t is a way inspired by mercy, which is
an attribute in man initiative of the same
attribute of God In no other age of the
world could such a war have been waged
The gospel of kindness needed to be recog-
nized throughout Christendom in order to
make such q war possible. The chief rea-
son why most Of the European nations are |
not now banded together against us is be- |
cause they dare not take the part Of that |
behemoth Of cruelty. the Spanish govern
ment, against the crusade of mercy which |
our nation has started. Had It been on |
our part war of conquest, war of an |
nexation, a war of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, there |
would have been by this time enoug oh fly |
Ing squadrons coming to this country |
across the Atlantic to. throw into panic |
every city on our American seaboard.
The wars of the crusaders were only to
regain an empty sepulcher; the Napoleon
&c wars with their 5000, 600 slaughtered
men, were projected and carried out to ap-
pease the ambition of one man; of the 25,-
OOO,OOO slain in Jewish wars and of the
&C, 900. 600 slain In wars under Julius
Caesar, of the $50, 900, 900 slain in wars
with Turks and Saracens of the so ,OOO.-
900 slain IN wars of Xerxes, Of the 20, OOO.-
900 slain in wars Of Justinian and the 80
DOC, 600 slain In the wars of Genghis Khan
NOT one man was sacrificed by mercy, but |
IN this Hispanio-A American war every
drummer boy or picket or gunner or
standard bearer or skirmisher or sharp |
shooter or cavalryman or artilIeryman or
engineer who falls falls in the cause of
mercy and becomes a martyr for God and
his country.
The Principle of Liberty.
Another alienation of this war Is that
70 rs ior the advancement OF the sublime
principle of liberty, which will yet englr-
lie the earth. Not only will this war free
juba but finally Will free Spain. ByI
What right docs a dynasty like that stand.
md a corrupt court dominate people for
CENTURIES, taxing them to death, riding in
yilded chariot over the necks OF q beggared ,
population? There are 10000 BOYS in
spain growing up with more capacity to
'overn that nation than will the weak bow \
ow in the Madrid palace ever possess. \
'efore this conflict is over the Spanish 4
a1ioh VIII DC III toward the time y
men constltu. convention will as j
emble to establish free government in |
tead OF the wornout dynasty that now | 4