The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

we may read it on every page of human
history. While we may not grasp In all It's
1ul ne SIS the Ieat on Of ne rust drt at ause
10 the secondary causes of nature as We
see them in operation, Yet we see enough OF
them TO know that while men and nations
are Tree TO act on the basis OF responsibility
IN their sphere, yet there is sphere where
the will OF God is omnipotent and supreme,
and. while He is long suffering, His justice
Will prevail at last. Washington, Lincoln
and every other great man who has been
PRESIDENT of the United States have recoS-
nized that man proposes, but GOD dtspoSeS.
Lincoln quoted Jesus in his memorable say
ing, Woe unto the World because or OF
lenses. 1t must needs be that onenses
come, but woe unto the man by whom the
oItense cometh.' Our Nation committed the
ofIense of enslaving men and Keeping them
IN bondage, making ii a crime to9 men 10
De taught to read the Bible, and GOD
Scourgeu us with blood until we were Will
ing to give up our sin. Under the gulse Oh
attending to our own business We have al
lowed spain for fifty years TO Cypress the
people OF Cuba, we have noted the massacre
or the ArmenianS without Thought mat
we mad anything to do with ii or were In
any way responsible for II, until God Is
going TO break our shell OF complacency anu
show us our duty. We may pray Tor peace.
but Spains heart, like that OF Pharaoh OF
old, Will continue to harden itself until We
nave been taught our duty. There VIII De
no peace as long as one American is Will
ing to allow Spain to still rule any Island
in any sea on earth Spain is defeated and
her rulers know il now, but Coo Will not
still some Americans who would be willing
TO allow Spain to retain her hold upon the
Philippine islands If she would only give
up CuDa and Porto Rico. Even II She should
ask for peace God will intervene in some
way to break forever her power to rule
colonies when she cannot even rule her own
TO allow Spain to retain her hold on CUBA
when all at once came the Maine catas-
trophe and our eyes We're opened; what
ever may be the view men may hold OF the
motto, Remember the Maine, it Is evident
that God has remembered 1t in way that
IS wonderful in our eyes. In the bottom OF
twenty ships, the pride of the Spanish navy,
and only one man killed in sending them
there. l can only ask my critics who have
thought / was wrong in calling upon our
Nation to remembers the Maine, to tell us
whether the President is right when he says
that God, the Almighty, was in all this and
led our brave soldiers and sailors to VIC
tory In the light of the vision God has
given us of His providence we may read
some things as a nation we have never
before clearly discerned.
''It is our duty to give the blessings of
liberty and good government to any people
where it is possible. For two hundred years
we have governed the American Indians
without their consent, we have stolen their
now when God calls us to do something for
the people of Hawaii, Cuba and the Philip
pines we fall back in an attempt to shirk
our duty on the old plea we are not for con-
not going to extend our power wherever we
may to give better government let us give
back to the Indians the land we stole from
them by the sword. When we pray God to
bless all nations we must remember that
we are to help answer our own prayers.
when we give thanks let us remember
that our flag was never so honored over
all the earth as it is to-day 1t is symbol
indeed of nation, and in any cline where
it is once planted it must remain forever
To permit the flag of Spain to float again
where once the stars and stripes have
waved would be to call down the wrath
of God upon our Nation.
Let us also thank God there is new
era dawning upon our country and great
questions affecting. the welfare of all ma
tons are now to be solved and the mere
politician will give way to the statesman
We have the men and they will come to
the front. The commission appointed to
arrange a plan of government for Hawaii
has an opportunity to do greater work
than Dewey or Shafter. To give liberty is
great, but to perpetuate liberty is greater
The soldier conquers, but the statesman
builds A Hamilton does a greater work
than a Washington. May God give. us men
to meet the work in the wider field of the
world"