The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-06-23
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thousand Spaniards can reach oul
hemisphere, and we go out to meet
them with 125, 1000 armed men, to ba
backed up speedily with soc, 900 moro II
needed. We do not have to ask for any
miracles, but only fair shot at the
ships headed this way and time enough
to demolish them. This is one of the
caseses in the worlds history where
might and right are shoulder to
shoulder.
Another alleviation is in the fact
that such an atrocity as the destruc-
tion of 266 lives in Havana harbor in
time of peace can not with impunity
be wrought in this age of the worlds
civilization. The question as to who
did that internalism is too we'll settled
to need any further discussion. But
what small crime it was, compared
with the systematic putting into their
graves OF hundreds of thousands of Gu.
bans, or leaving them unburied for the
buzzards to take care of. If Spain
could destroy 200, 900 men, women and
children, the slaughter of 2s6 people
was not very great undertaking.
But this one last deed will result in
the liberation of Cuba, and the driving
of Spain from this hemisphere and the
overthrow of that government, which
will soon drop to pieces if it does not
go down Under bombardment of in.
suited nations.
There was danger that the 1ong-con.
tinued oppression of our neighbors in
In the Hispanic America n war every
drummer boy. Or picket, pr gunner, or
standard-bear, or slsirmisher, or sharp.
Cuba might be continued FROM genera
ton to generation without sufficient
protest on our part and the pronounced
execration Of people on both sides oi
the Atlantic, but that bursting volcano
OF destruction in the harbor of Havana
fired the nation and shocked the whole
civilized world. All nations will learn
that such an act can not be repeated
without the anathema of all Christen-
dom. AS individual criminals must be
punished for the public good, and we
have for them courts of oyer and ter.
miner, and penitentiaries, and electric
chairs, and hangman's gallows
so governments committing high
crimes against God and humanity must
be scourged and hung up for the
worlds Indignation. When in Span. ,
ish waters our battleship, looking
after our commercial interests and in.
tending nothing but quietude, was
hurled into demolition, and the men
on board, without time to utter one
word OF prayer, were dashed into the
eternal world, the doom of the reign
ing house Of Spain was pronounced in
tones louder than the thunder which
that night rolled out over the sea.
Another alleviation is the fact that
we have God to go to in behalf Of au 4
those of our eountrymen who may be
in especial exposure at the front, for
we must admit the perils It is no
trifing thing for loo,0oo young men to
be put outside OF home restraints and
sometimes into evil companionship.
Many of the brave of the earth are not
the good of the earth. To be in the
same tent with those who have no rc,
gard for God or home; to hear their
holy religion sometimes slurred at; to
be placed under influences calculated
to make one reckless; to have no Sab
bath, except such Sabbath as in most
encampments amounts to no Sab
bath at all; to go out from
homes where all sanitary laws are
observed into surroundings whers@
questions of health are never dis.
cussed; to invade climes where pesti.
lence holds possession; to make long
marches under blistering skies; to
stand on deck and in the fields under
fire, at the mercy of shot and shell-we
must admit that those exposed need
especial care, and to the Omniprcsent
God we have q right to commend them,
| and will commend thsA Postal COM
munication may be Interrupted, and
letters started from camps or homes
may not arrive at the right destination,
but, however, far away our loved ones
may be from us, and however wide and
deep the seas that separate us, we may
hold communication with them via the
throne of God.
Yet what the world most wants il
Christ, who is coming to take possession
of all hearts. all homes, all nations;
but the world blocks the wheels of His
| chariot. would like to see this CEN
tury, which is now almost wound up,
find it's peroration, in some mighty
overthrow of tYrannies and mighty
building up of liberty and justice.
Almost all the centuries have ended
with some stupendous event that trans.
formed nations and changed the map Of
! the world. It was so at the close Of the
fourteenth century; it was SO at the
close Of the fifteenth century; it was
| so at the close OF the sixteenth
century; it was 50 at the close Of the
seventeenth century; it was so at the
close of the eighteenth century. May
it be more gloriously SO at the close OF
the nineteenth century! Blessed be
the Lord God of Israel from everlast-
ing to everlasting, aud let the whole
| u.xl. l,o El1a1 ,&th HE ~vlcr,yD A,,,n.r