The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-05
or nArrows enrAr PUnPosR
"DeIiveranoe Into the LarEeness OF the
Goth Century IAN AcQuirer of Colonies.

"DeIiveranoe Into the LRrEeness Of the
Goth Century''-An AcQuirer of Colonies
In an grafton delivered yesterday on Glen
Summit, Pa, the Hon. st. Clair McKelway said;
This struggle OF ours with Spain Is n novelty
in oil the wars that ever were. From Spain the
United States had suffered no such wrong as
ever led us into war before. We sympathized
with Poland. but did not help Poland. We sym
pathized with Hungary and melted under the
eloquence Of Kossuth but only. underline hard
ening words of Webster. TO solidify TO aloofness
from and non-interference with Hungary. We
sympathized with the sporadic uprisings against
Spain In the Philippines. but e for q moment
thought of interfering there. Nevertheless, as
already shown. there was that In our nearness
to Cuba. and there was that In the Irritation and
in the Inflammation which the wrongs OF Cuba
excited in our veins. as well as In the, injury
wrought to our many interviewer interests,
which aroused us under the moral and physical
shock Of the destruction OF the Maine TO liter
ally a war Of altruism-to awarf for our brethren
In bonds, for whom we telt as II bound with
II the altruism OF this war makes II novel In
fSorcement OF the moral and Of the political con:
any war we're before in human history; And
oil the same, and to that more abundantly,
OF International isolation and said we liked It
and did like u and believed we, liked
and denoted destiny, and believed what we
said. and lol we have broken the bonds
OF international isolation and mean. with
steady hand and manful heart, to play
q nations part In, the world OF nations.
And so we reprobated. without covetinR, the
colonial aggressiveness OF England and OF
France and Of Germany, and behold. we are
becoming an acqulrer Of colonies which we
will get IN the name Of humanity, by force IF
hold and help and foster in the name OF Chris
tianity and. OF. civilization. | predict, to the
end OF syllabled and recorded time, Our ma
ton has become radicalized. for 1t has passed
under the baptism of q great purpose. The
purpose Ia the deliverance into the largeness
OF tho twentieth century OF those who have
| rushed under our flag In their flight from the
superstitions Of the fifteenth century and from
the c~ruelties OF the sixteenth century, unnat-
ally prolonged to the close. Of this. otherwise
brilliant and suspicious nineteenth century,
This purpose IA plain. Our people are not
afraid Of i: They are only afraid OF being
afraid Of 1t; 1t is a heavenly vision under
which they dare not be disobedient. To It they
They respect those who would restrain them,
but they will not be restrained. and they know
that those who would restrain them will re-
spect them the more for that resolution. They
recall the picture Of the conservative French
man In the crisis Of creation. who besouEht
God to conserve chaos But chaos was not
then conserved; creation went right on eyolu-
tiop. Its child. has been going on ever since,
and the American people. at least. will be nc
opponent OF the, evolution Of, their own life
into the broadening stream Of history"