New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-04
| SUCCOR OPPRESSED CUBANS.
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS OF EX-PREs1-
DENT HARRISON.
HE PRESENTS A FLAG AT THE STATE CAMP IN
INDIANA TO BATTERY A-THE SPLENDID

HE PRESENTS A FLAG AT THE STATE CAMP IN
INDIANA TO BATTERY A-THE SPLENDID
VICTORY OF OUR GALLANT NAVY
1ra,onano,,s Nav 3-This afternoon at Camp
Mount where 5000 Indiana volunteers are as
sembled. General Harrison made his first pubic
utterance on the war in presenting nag 10
Hatterv 4 on behalf OF society women: He SAID:
Can.ain Curtis. men Of Battery A. Indiana
National Guard (sO0n 70 have another deslgha
ton as n pnttery Of the Army or the bhl'eu
States)-Yestcrday some or my young "on.ei
friends called upon me and asked me 10 Say -
few words in connection with the presentation
10 this battery Of the flag which they mad pre-
pared ..,.o hoor
declining all invitations to make pubic au-
dresses. and might have denied tne youms
women-though my desire to please mem was
strong-but | could not deny mYselr the graz
Gcatlnn of a word Of greeting. or coinnlehu1-
ton ana n Godspccd to you and to all OF the
bravo young fellows who have so promptly a"
swercd our coun;ry's call to war A..
The indianapolis Light Artillery has won me
highest iaurcls as militia organization You
have vanquished all competitors; You nave woi,
fame for the State. AS Indianians We are proud
Of Won You will take the field under the pest
auspices. Your officers and men have attained
n high efficiency in drill. You nave areauy y
hieh csprit de corps. You have been hrst IN
ncnco. Won must not cannot, will not be second
i'm war. You have attained great efficiency III
disnounting your own guns. and now you are ~
guns ,,,.,
You have rs trained and organized militia
great advantage over the volunteers OF 1901 ".
our foes now are not. thank GOO; thosc U' 90, o,',
own household. That was a war TOR the Ire OF
the Union, This war for humanity; that TOT
ourselves this for the oppressed OF another race
CONFLICT INEVITABLE.
We could not escape this conflict. Spanish.
rule had become eGete. We dare not say that
mt eel a deliver
pressed the world around. To the distant Arrne-
mans We could send only the succor OF faith
that overcomes death and the aeviations which
The nurse and the commissary can give. bu' inc
oppressed Cubans and their starving women
and children knocking at our doors; their
cries penetrate our slumbers. They are Closely
within what We have defined to be the sphere Ok
American influence. We have said, LOOK 70 u.s.
not 10 Europe" and we cannot shirk the re-
sponsibility and the dangers Of this old and
settled American policy.
We have ~ Nation toward cuba the same
hch commission which every brave hearted
man has 10 strike down the runian who in his
presence beats n woman or n child ana VIII not
d"-ist. For what # not for this. does God maze
a nan or 4 nation strong?
". have discamcd in the face OF IN" nations
Of Europe. who are row dividing continents
much huiRry boys might divide a meloh
that We have 10 purpose L. seize and appro-
pirate cuba. W. go 10 set her free. 10 give -
her own people that which We hay" claimed ana
established for ourselves right TO set up
and maintain Government sultable I'd tHfIi
own nccessitles controlled by their own sui-
frago We covct from her. as from all inc
raiiDns Of Americans. only the good offices or
good ncighbors and the fair and natural eX-
changes ~ commerce.
NOT SEEING DOMINION.
We do not deny dominion 10 Europe In order
70 seize II for ourselves But we may Justly
think in the West Indies. and in tho far East
crn sea. where our gallant Navy has won 90
splendid a victory. hold some little unpeopled
harbors where our cruising warships may coal
and and a refuge when in stress.
DO not doubt that speedily though no man
can Get tho times which God plans this great
work - - hitch the United States has addressed
itself viii be completely and permanently az
oomplished ! congratulate you. my friends
that YOU are to have n part In H. challenge
your interest and your duty that You aclult
Yourselves Ike men that you enter upon your
duty Win IN" seriousness and sense OF oolisa-
ton which Will make you efficient and victorious
I'm your campaign Let us not forget that there
IS I'm all this a moral impulse" ana that mo
soldier who goes forth with high Impulse or
moral courage IS the best soldier AFTER all
These women scni you 10 the succor or IN"
starving and oppressed women or cuba Ihey
cannot carry tho nas into battle. but they bring
81 10 YOU who can. And 80 It's significance and
rlor-v as he National emblem they add the
beauty o, their love and their charge that YOU