The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-18
STAND By THE FLAGl
Patriotic Speech by Ex-Gov. Flower at Q
Flag Raising.

Patriotic Speech by Ex-Gov. Flower NJ O
Flag Raising.
Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower spoke in Water
town the other day at q flag raising. His
speech Is reported In the Watertown Times as
follows:
1T is q pleasure for me. fellow citizens, to
Join with you In raising this the largest flag in
WATERFOWL.
1.-THE two great principles symbolized by this
flag are religious and civil liberty. After seven
years OF bloody war we achieved our independ.
ence OF Great Britain. and then we laid down
the sword and the musket and took up the axe
and the plough. We felled the forests. we built
bridges, we chained the lightning. we carried
thought under the ocean. we made electricity q
motor force. We smote the earth and it brought
forth iron. We compressed steam and har-
nessedit to our uses. From these have como
nearly all of our great inventions. the steam
boat, the railroad that spans the continent. the
cotton gin. the loom. the lathe. the FORGE. the
mower and reaper. and all our labor-savinR
machines: so that through patents issued to
inventive geniuses they have become millions
aires. Our forests being depleted. w smotO
the earth again. and 100000 square miles OF
coal were discovered. We smote again the
earth and rivers Of salt sprang forth.
our whale fisheries giving out. we smote
world. We smote again and gas was the result,
to W gwn,,i our h9WTs s sn,d feed lit th sd forge al, and Light
Nevada Mountain With the result that we an.
nually dig ope-half of the, gold and silver Of the
world. We have q wonderful country and .
lation from .3.0O0,000 to 10000. 900, and our
population Ia but twenty-five to the square
mile. whereas the lowest. population OF any
European country. that Of France, is 1870 to the
square mile.
$ no man can foretell what the population
OF this country will be II we will stand by this
flag that you have raised to-day as a symbol Of
our republic and rightly understand its mean
"To-day our flag is on Cuban soil and our
dying for 1t. 1t will be carried to victory. 1t is
planted there not for conquest. but for hui
manity. The. Monroe doctrine will not brook
foreign interference with the territories con.
t tab We new . forms he q g2yernmSnf there:
to Cuba and to Porto Rico a government
OF. for and by the people. They cannot be per.
mitted to breed there the yellow fever and the
smallpoX and bring the contagion iuto the
United States; we cannot permit them to starye
to death . 10000, Cubans or butcher them the
way the Turks, have hutchered the Christians
In Armenia: The civilization OF the nineteenth
century in America cries out against such out
RACES. and when we have won our battles the
title of American citizen will be n prouder title
than any other on earth.
with these islands We have not finished this
war. and no man can tell what will eventually
become of those Islands. but one thing | ven-
ture, that the. American nation will guarantee
20 ench one OF them "a government OF. for and
by the people; And II it requires the strong
meaning Of, liberty regulated by law, they will
be taught the lesson and then the soldiers can
come home"