The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-26
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AsHFIBLD. Mass, August 25.-T

Gloomy PrruletlohAs
AsHFIELD. Mass. August 25.-The
twentieth annual dinner in aid of San
derson academy was given this after
noon with Charles Elliot Norton, Profess
sor Emeritus of fine arts Of Harvard
university presiding. There were adj
dresses by Rev. John w. Chadwick, of
Brooklyn; G. Stanley Hall, president Of
Clark university, of Worcester; Rev.
DR.. P. S. Moxnm, of Springfield; sher-
man s. Rogers. of Buffalo. and Booker
II, washington. the principal Of the
Tuskegee institute. Alabama.
The principal address was by Prof.
Norton, who devoted himself to a dis
cussion OF the late war. He referred to
the academy's prosperity during the
year, and continued as follows:
"And yet our hearts have been, heavy
with new weight of care, and the very
brightness OF the sunshine has but
deepened by contrast the cloud of our
sorrowful rhought-sorrowfu that cur
nation should have turned Its back upon
it's old ideals, and standing at the part
ing ways, should have chosen the an
Client path, familiar to the old world.
worn by the bloody feet of hapless gem
erations and which has never led to
anything but ill-the path Of aggressive
war. Of foreign conquest, Of alien terri
torial aggrandizement, the path that
leads from trouble to trouble.
The black and brutal vIsage of war
has indeed been lighted up from time to
time during the summer by the gallant
deeds of our men in service and by the
good conduct and marvellous good for
tune of our navy and by the general
temper Of humanity displayed so soon
as the actual fight was over by both OIL
GERS and men. But 1t has taken on a
deeper shade of gloom from the need
less sufferIngs which our brave soldiers
have had to endure from the lack of
due provision for their needs alike in
camp, on field and in hospital. It has
been a miserable spectacle OF incom-
potency for which account must be rem
dered and penalty exacted."
After review OF the events leading
up to the war, Prof. Norton said: peace
has nominally come. The actual con-
flict has ended, but less than 100 days
of war has -ulted in revolution in
the United States. The foundations on
which the republic has rested have been
unsettled; the principles upon which the
government depends have been viola
ted; we have undertaken obligations
which neither our institutions nor our
national character enable us properly
to discharge; we, the one great nom
military power in the world, have sud-
denly Joined the ranks Of the nations
burdened with great armies and navles;
we have loaded ourselves with an enor-
nous additional debt, and with an enor-
nous increase OF annual expenditures.
a permanent oppressive tax upon the
industry of the people, and further,
whatever disposition may be made Of
the Philippines, we are already, through
holding them and claiming the right to
dispose Of them, brought into entang-
ling relations with the nations of the old
world, and run the risk of losing the
lnestlmable boon which has hitherto
been ours, of freedom in the complica-
tons of the international policies of the