The San Francisco call., 1898-05-27

lat as the natural order of things. But now Ter direction, to consider whether there r an understanding that would be equiva- lited States and England, for certain large lited States in such way as would distinct e equality with England as a great power,
 fundamental American substantially are good reasons for such an alliance. There and the ties of race, but as regards inter- of interests.
 with the idea that every generation must that the courage of the nation may be pre- mood be maintained. That is a theory which e eminence, who have believed that without ring at more or less regular intervals, the being lost, so that its people will degenerate f our existence as nation events have con-
 us exactly one war to every generation had the war or the revolution; in the next xico; in the third quarter-century the
 it's last quarter was running to it's close have this war with Spain.
 blessings of peace-and aSSuredly they are particularly when it is a war waged. as eves to be a just and righteous cause, must onic influence, bracing up not merely the panish war were to come to an end now , done. It would have been short conflict, onstration; we would have given ourselves shown to the whole world that we have a and on sea.
 something akin to the memorable grand
 Of our Civil War and which gave us a lich. as I look back to it, I feel was a strength and resources of the Republic, and
 
 iln. We shall put our 125 900 militia in line. To the front not. we shall, by and by, ,oSTs7emoly oT7 here at Washington and the moral our latent power as nation will be great Short to require us to use this latent power land the shorter the war is the better we o morrow, this demonstration of our ca- cen made, and it's moral effect will remain. Called in a pointed way to our deficiencies ,fenses and in naval equipment at various nat they shall be remedied at whatever cost, aldime find ourselves taken by surprise or at co Duplication.
 na..- us. It is. In my opinion, going to save nad shown pusillanimity now we should ass power, with this extremely probable
 Us to be a second-class power, not willing o,,v wing American principles and American dtee taken advantage of the discovery to
 ses of their own ont on this e+ side of the TSN world a1 bought other American possessions; ba a, might have purchased Venezuela, and i've followed on the part Of European pow tr,lf we had proved in this exigency that D ,poppain for good cause.
 nave been made to disappear, unless we had Contest to prevent such action by these
 Which would have been much harder to e 2, It Is quite clear to my mind that this war least-that it will have the effect of pre-
 Spain, but to surrender our Monroe doc ways implied the recognition of existing Flu ere, but only upon this condition-that any eee pete which it grossly mIsgoNverns we shat h
 here were to be driven out, but simply that ents here, and, as corollary, that such ter under their dominion should be well gov -e have taken toward Spain-demanding that 'ly out of America-is the only case of the the only European nation that misgoverns oes not misgovern her colonies: she holds sed of civilized people capable of self-gov-- !, so far 1 know, that is true also Of ason for which we are fighting Spain, while
 doctrine, cannot possibly lead us into a !, that while Spain is not so powerful na-
 Conflict with her, yet she is not so weak ! antagonist, or one whose defeat will be an h and resources, and the extent of her na- not so small that we can be charged with
 ion by force from this hemisphere is, in tunate that the United States goes into this ing for it's own aggrandizement, but sim
 Yet another piece of good fortune for Us ope at this time that Spain cannot get any which, three or four years hence, she might the time, and, it seems to me, all the cir Tor. My feeling is that it is manifest des- mate circumstances to which have al- V, both as to it's immediate outcome and which have spoken, as altogether one of nation ever engaged And the world may
 stand and make such sacrifices for ly fight for ourselves and our own inter-