The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-16
A JUST WAR
Is Being Wascd Against Spain
Says Colonel White.
HUMANITY DEMANDED TIE AID.
THE UNITED STATES. a CHRIS.
TIAN NATION, TO RELIEVE AN
DEPRESSED PEoPLE-TH1s
COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS ENdAG-
ED IN WAR FOR JUST CAUSES
AND GODS HAND MAY BE SEEN
THROUGH THEM AL1-ADDREss
AT THE Y. NJ. C. A.
HUMANITY DEMANDED TIE AID
AT THE Y. NJ. c. A.

Patriotic services were held at the 7.
n. c. A. yesterday afternoon. A large
American flag behind the rostrum, and
bunting on the walls, were appropriate
decorations. The speaker was Col. Rob-
ert White, who spoke on "a Just War
by q Christian Nation" He argued
that this country's present war with
Spain was waged in q Just cause, and
said that following the war civilization
would spread over Cuba, the Philip
pines. and the other Spanish possess
Ions. The service opened by the sing
Ing Of America" bv the large au-
dience present.
Beginning his address to the young
men. Colonel White said he had lived
a great many years, but looking back
his childhood seemed but q thing OF
geography the northwest was q COM
parative blank; In that day o great
part OF the southwest belonged to the
nation with which the United States Is
battling. Texas has become an addi-
tional star. as well as Louisiana, which
belonged to Spanish people. California
belonged to the same kind OF ownership.
Then Hawaii was inhabited by canni-
bals, but since the speaker had grown
to manhood the Bible had reached Ha-
wall, and the first Anglo-Saxon'st foot
had touched Japan, with the Book in
his hand. Gods power was shown In
making China open up her gates to the
missionary. Colonel White prophesied
the certain influence the Bible would
WELD in Turkey, and prevent further
Armenian atrocities.
On down through the ages, the speak
err said, blood has washed out oppres-
sion. The blood Of the martyrs has
produced civilization, and opened the
pathway for the light Of the gospel. A
few centuries ago this land was a bar
rem Wilderness, now It Is the greatest
nation on earth. Gods hand Is seen
through 1t all from the first planting of
the cross on the shore to the present
day. The civil war came by His provi-
dence and ended by His will, and His
tread can be seen In all the marks of
history. And now, the country Is about
to move again for Him, to carry the
cross and relieve an oppressed people.
This Is no war Of conquest. Not as
the wars of Caesar looking for wealth,
nor in the sense which caused Alexan-
der the Great to weep because he had
no more worlds to conquer nor as those
Of France to satisfy N%apoleon's ambi-
ton. This country has never engaged
in war other than for a just cause. 1t
threw off English ehackles under the
patriotic leadership OF; Washington, and
now seeks to give the light OF freedom
to a down-trodden people, oppressed by
a cruel and t%vrannical nation. In Cuba
the people are dying by thousands.
The United States has looked on this
condition Of affairs for years. The spirit
OF freemen broke forth. The heart OF
the people burst out In acclaim:
Cuba must be free. Spain must be
driven from It's shores forever!"
Spain Is q ~disgraced. q degraded ma
ton. But Congress passed no resolu-
tons OF oppression, but said the Cuban
people need peace, need relief. 1t said to
the President, the commander-in-chIet
OF the army, Take the bone and sinew
OF the country; take what you need, and
end the Spanish extortlon. tyranny and
murder Of q long oppressed people
linen the war started, q war launched
in a Just cause, for humane reasons,
and none other.
The death-knell OF Spanish tyranny
sounded on western shores, when the
telegraph wires clicked the sadness o!
the destruction Of the Maine, and soon
after Remember the Maine" was the
slogan OF victory that sounded over
Manila, in the far off orient. The
speaker said he was certain Gods hand
was visible at Manila, and he believed
Spanish t%reechery, Spanish oppression
and tyranny were also to be swept from
the eastern sea His description OF the
eagerness the American sailors dis.
played at Manila ito avenge the lives
of their comrades on. the Maine was
very vivid. Colonel White concluded BY
saying that Ia his Judgment the presen,
times would witness Gods hand very
plainly, and that the various peoples In
the power Of Spain would be uplifteG
from their ignorance and depression
through the Bible. which would be car.
ried into these lands after Spain's
downfall is accomplished.