The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-31


to establish the Dutch republic in spite
OF all Spain could do. There he stood,
surrounded by danger, grandly, heroic
ally contending for civil and religious
liberty until he fell pierced by the bull
tets OF a hired assassin, whose family
Philip the Second enrolled among the
! Titled aristocracy of Spain for his in
Famous deed. There is our own Wash
lngton, who stands first in the hearts Of
/ MS eountrymen, as much for What he
/ was as what he did. A nation rises no
| higher than its ideals. Take away from
any nation the pure, the good, the up
! right and have you not Slapped the
foundations of that nations prosperity,
and stripped it of its strongest bull
| Warks?
third thing this war his accom-
| pushed is the destruction of sectional
/ ism, and the welding of the various
parts Of this land. north and south, east
and west, into a union truer and
| stronger than ever before. The conflict
which was Waged between the north
land the south from the beginning of our
national life until the great civil war
was a conflict of ideas and institutions.
! Slavery sought to perpetuate itself by
the sword, and it persisted by the
sword. When in April, 1851, the Sixth
! regiment of Massachusetts, was passing
! through Baltimore on its way to Wash
ington, 1t was assaulted and three or
! four of its. members killed. In May 1898
| whenN this same regiment passed
through the same city, it was escorted
! through the streets by a procession Of
| citizens headed by the mayor, while
| children flung flowers in their pathway.
| The city hall was used to give them a
reception Each man received a box,
4 containing fruit, cake, an American flag
| and d Cuban flag with the welcome:
| "Maryland's greeting to Massachusetts.
Baltimore and B oston clasp hands.
! God speed the historic Massachusetts
Sixth. A united country honors the men
| who are rallying to her defense. May
the memory of 1851 be effaeed by the
! welcome Of 1898"
| Side by side under the same flag, with
an equal love for it, marched and suf-
fered and fought men from the hills of
New England and from the plains of
the south
| fourth thing emphasized by this
war is the growing spirit and power of
democracy. Here are two nations rep
resenting different ideas of the religious
rights and political liberties Of the
! people, and the duties of governments.
1 SPAN represents the spirit of tyranny
and cruelty. Her theory and practice
penalties the people to worship
God as her rulers decreed, to
keep them in ignorance, and
to use them to subserve their own sell
| fish ends. Hence, Spain has always
ruled her colonial possessions with a
military despotism, so as to enrich her
self without regard to the interest and
welfare of the people. The United States
stands for freedom of thought, free
/ dom of speech, the right to worship
! God according to the dictates of con-
science. political equality which rec
ognizes the sovereignty of man. and
renders it possible for the poorest and
humblest to attain to the most exalted
position in the nation She is "a gov
fernment Of the people, by the people
and for the people. When the two
powers clashed arms in deadly con-
/ flict, the kingdoms of the earth were
! interested spectators. The way in
which the giant power of youthful de-
lmocracy has smitten and humbled ar
rogant and antiquated tyranny has i'm
pressed the world with a new concep-
/ ton of the growth and strength of the
power of the people The motives that
prompted this nation to undertake this
war, and the spirit in which it has been
carried on, must command the respect
Iof the world. There were no feelings
| of emnity against Spain, no desire for
territorial acquisition, no thirst for mil
1 itary glory, no covert purpose for ma
/ tional ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The people of
I this nation had been thrilled with hor-
ror at the atrocious massacre Of Ar
menians, and burned with indignation
that the European powers stood back
and permitted Turkey to perpetuate
such crimes against humanity. She
j did for Cuba what she felt the Euro
pean powers should. have done for the
Armenians, 'interposed, and when nee
essary with the cannon put an end to
unbearable misrule. The command of
( Capt. Philip to his men when the enemy
was defeated, Don't cheer, the poor
/ fellows are dying!" illustrates the spir-
lit in which this war was conducted.
This war Will doubtless in time prove
( a blessing to Spain. When she has
no colonies on which to depend, she will
] turn to the cultivation of her peninsula
and the development of her own re-
sources, for she is said to be in mineral
wealth the richest country in Eu-
rope.
The fifth thing this war has accom-
plished for which we should be thank
! full, is the drawing together of England
and the United States into closer bonds
| Of friendship and sympathy. England is
an ally of which we have good reason to
be proud. We are accustomed to
g
embraces within her limits about one
third of the continent Of Asia, or one
tenth of the land surface of the globe
Greater territorially than China is Rus
STA. The Russian empire embraces an
area equal to One-siXth of the land
surface of the globe, with an estimated
population of about 1926. 900 900 inhabit-
ants. But England is larger than either.
Her possessions embrace one-flfth of
the land surface of the globe, With a
population of 49,, 100000 souls. She
owns the whole of the continent of Aus
tralia, and has vast possessions in
Asia, Africa and America. 1t is lit
eral fact that her possessions belt the
globe, and the sun never sets upon her
empire In the words of an
American statesman, Her flag waves
NON every sea and in every port and
the morning drum beat Of her
soldiers, following the sun and keep
ing company with the hours, circles
the earth with one continuous strain
Of the martial airs of England" Wher-
ever her flag goes, there goes respect
for law. protection to individual rights
and Christian civilization, We are of
one blood, speak a common language,
have a common literature, and are the
two great aggressive Protestant Chris
tan nations of the world, who cherish
the same love for civil and religious
liberty we may not KNOW luSt what
part England took in this late war in
preventing a European alliance against
us. But we all know that the great
heart Of the common people Of the ma
ton was, with us. and that England
showed her friendliness for us at a
critical time in a way that was an im>
mense service. That the memory of