The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-20

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turn the island of desolation into an
island Edenic?"
1t is a war inspired by mercy, which
Is an attribute in man initiative of the
same attribute of God. In no other
age of the world could such a war
have been waged. The gospel of kind
ness needed to be recognized through
out Christendom in order to make such
a war possible. The chief reason why
most of the European nations are not
now banded together against us is be-
cause they dare not take the part of
that behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish
government, against the crusade of
mercy which our nation has started.
Had 1t been on our part war of con-
quest a war of annexation, a war of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, there would have
been by this time enough flying squad
rons coming to this country across
the Atlantic to throw into panic every
city on our American seaboard.
Another alienation of this war is
that it is for the advancement of the
sublime principles of liberty, which
will yet eugirdle the earth. Not only
will this war free Cuba, but it will
finally free Spain. BY what right
does dynasty like that stand and a
corrupt court dominate a people for
centuries, taxing them to death, riding
in gilded chariot over the neck of
beggared population? There are 10000
boys in Spain growing up with more
capacity to govern that nation than
will the weak boy now in the Madrid
palace ever possess. Before this con-
hict is over the Spanish nation will be
well on toward the time when a con-
stitutional convention will assemble
to establish free government instead
of the worn out dynasty that now af-
fiicts the people. The liberty of all
nations, tran satlantic as well as cisat-
lantic, If not already established, is on
the way and cannot be stopped.
Another alienation Is that the war
opens with a great victory for the
United States. 1t took our govern
ment four years to get over the tiasco
at Bull run. A defeat at the start of
this present war would have been dis
heartening to the last degree, and
would have invited foreign interven-
ton TO stop the war before anything
practical for God aud humanity had
been accomplished, and would have
prolonged the strife, for which we are
hoping a quick termination. In the
most jubilant manner let this vic
tory of our navy be cele brated.
With the story of the exploding bat
tleship fresh in the minds of the
world, it required no ordinary courage
to sail into the harbor of Manila and
attack the Spanish shipping That
harbor, crowded with sunken weap-
onry of death; to enter it was running
a risk enough to make all nations
shiver. But Manila is ours, and the
blow has shaken to the foundation the
palaces of Madrid, and for policy's
sake the doubtful nations are on our
side. For Commodore Dewey and all
who followed him let the whole nation
utter its most resounding huzza; and
more than that, let us thank the Lord
of hosts for His guiding and protect
ing power. praise we the Lord! Let
everything that hath breath praise
the Lordp
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is on the side
of the right. Again and again have
liberty and justice and suffering hui
manity had the odds against them 1t
was so when, in 1776, the 10 colonies,
with no war shipping and a few un-
drilled and poorly clad soldiers, were
brought into a contest with the might
lest navy of the earth and an army
that commanded the admiration of
nations. 1t was so when Poland was
crushed. 1t was so when Hun
gary went under 1t has been so dur
ing all the struggles heretofore for
Cuban independence. But now it is
our powerful navy against a feeble
group of Incompetent ships, crawling
across the Atlantic ocean to meet our
notillas which have enough guns &c
send them as completely under as
when the Red sea submerged Pharaoh's
army. 1t is so in these times, when
only a few thousand Spaniards can
reach our hemisphere, and we go out
to meet them with l25, 900 armed men
to be backed up speedily with 500, OOC
more if needed. We do not have tC
ask for any miracles, but only IA fail
shot at the ships headed this way, anC
time enough to demolish them. Thi,
is one OF the cases in the worlds his
tory where might and right are shoul
der to shoulder
Another alienation is in the fac
that such an atrocity as the destruc
ton of 2G6 lives in Havana harbor il
time of peace cannot with impunity b,
/ wrought in this age of the worlds civ
, ilization. The question as to who die
( that infernalism is too well settled t,
, need any further discussion. But wha
i IA small crime it was compared will
: the systematic putting into thei
r graves of hundreds of thousands of Gu
> bans, or leaving them unburied for tn
r buzzards to take care oil II Spail
= could destroy 200, 900 men, women an,
children, the slaughter of 266 peopl
. was not a very great undertaking
: But this one last deed will result in tn
D liberation of Cuba and the driving o
: Spain from this hemisphere and tn
S overthrow of that government, whic