New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-03
Views 81 senator Davis.

hatever Senator Davis may say regard
ling the probable future policy Of thi
Igoyernmen as the result Of the war
For this reason the Review publishe
the GLOWING extracts from his speed
at the laying Of the corner stone of thu
new capitol building at 81. Paul
Il is now manifest that the United
States will be, at the conclusion Of thi
wal, great and actual naval and mill
tary power. Many thousands Of her cit
liens will be trained to modern warfar,
on land and sea. The military spiri
| has inspired the people. They have beer
raised to q higher plane Of patriotism
The additions to our fleet have. beer
very considerab Leland the fleet will ney
er be less. The approp riations for it.
increase, already liberal, will continue
to be SO. The astounding victories 81
Commodore Dewey and Commodor
schley have convinced our people Of
the vital importance Of the sea power.
The organization and operation Of a
great army and navy will teach them
their own strength.
'sThe patriotism Of our soldiers and
sailors will be a heritage Of national
glory and honor. Our people we're car
ried to the highest top Of national pride
by witnessing at Manila and Santiago
with what majesty the American sailor
fights. It IS also perceived with the
greatest satisfaction that certain expon-
ents Of European opinion, who until re-
Gently spoke with a condescending as
sumption of superiority Of intervening
in the present contest, have abated their
hauter of expression. @ !. xs.
'sThe Monroe doctrine, in the sense Of
an intention by this government to IN
tervene to prevent encroachments by
European nations upon the republics Of
the Western hemisphere, has been con-
firmed and has received steadying
force. The press of continental Europe
has adopted during the last few days a
fashion of resenting even any theoretical
assertion of this great principle of
American security, which was recently
characterized by Prince Bismark as a
doctrine of uncommon insolence., It
is now probable that any European pow
er will deliberate before acting upon
that assumption. @
=. ''The unpleasant relations which have
existed between the United States and
England for so many years were caused
by a traditional aversion, which was ae-
gravated by certain events Of our civil
war, and by many minor irritating con-
the worst feature of which Is
The fact that few of them have ever been
settled. But through all this it has been !
felt by the people Of both countries that |
4 tie binds them together, however much |
they may irritate each other by straining
t. ~ ~
ut is very plain that q change of sem
timent, or expression, and Of the general
contour of the relations between the two
nations, has taken place. The convic-
ion heretofore only imperfectly felt and
,nly partially, infrequently and ftfully
acknowledged, is now clearly operative
md is openly and spontaneously ex-
pressed, that the 1875, 900, 900 who speak
he English language, who have estab-
ished representative governments and
personal liberty in every
PORTION of the world, whose conception
# faith, literature, morals, education,
popular government and individual free
lom are cognate at all times and every
where, whose civilization, though devel-
ped, is not decadent, but is still pro-
,ressive, who have heretofore taken no
tep backward in an expansion Of influ-
nee and empire without comparison in
history, are amicably approaching each |
ther under the pressure Of great hui
nan evolution .
The. young king of Spain has the
measles. It's wonder he hasn't the
ramps.
It is q wise child who can answer the |
uestion: Give the boundaries Of the
United States for the year 1899. st.
,ouis Globe Democrat.
It doesn't take much to bring man
ITO disfayor with the Repub lican press.
Judge Collins discovered this when he
aid he believed that It was to the inter-
SITS Of the state to re-elect Judge Mich
4.
The peace prospects are bright. The
parish government has commissioned +