The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04

rather Almighty" and requested his OFF,
ceTs ana men TO return thanks for the vic
.pIy. But II was in this same faith that
the. dauntless Cervera and his fleet met
their fate. History will make its final selec-
lions ana Judgments. and every patient and
COURAGEOUS soul will have his due reward
- not rom without, it will be from with
IN; and this regardless of the side he fought.
PRESIDENT Scot Butler, of our city, brave
address on patriotism: ''Give back the Con-
Iederate flags. We whom in the days of the
clv ..ll war, the better fortune favored in that
with us loyalty 20 State meant loyalty to
Nation. we may not unduly boast the SUI
periority of our civic virtue. 1t might have
peen otherwise with us make no doubt
mat = indianapolis had been Atlanta, beSet
by federal invaders, many Hoosier soldier
that marched with Sherman to the sea had
Belt road these years has held for com
merce; if Pogue's run had been Peach Tree
creek. II had SO rushed red with blood of
lndiana's sons, arrayed in deadly war
against the general government, that not
ali the sewage of all the cities of the earth
co ND ever defile its sanctity;'
the less they have borne a great part in his
Tory 10 each nation the world owes it's
debt. From the Jews. reigion from
and order: from the Teutonic races, home
IRE, the fairest civic and domestic virtues;
from the United States the emphasis of
individualism, the doctrine that govern
ment OF the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from off the EARTH
NEW PATHS OPENED.
There is no time and no place in life for
pride and haughtiness-only for duty. Cen
trail Europe may yet have to struggle with
Russia, as she has had in the past to deal
With the Latin nations. And our country
has still to deal with herself. We were
overgrown, lily balanced and sectionalized;
threatening the commercial relations of the
world with disaster; our city governments
rotten; politics in place of craftsmanship,
and placid acquiescence in the things they
loathed by the best people. We were in
sular, rich and selfish; we were not doing
justice to our people. But now our feet are
directed in new paths. Captain Philip
would say the hand of God is laid nightly
upon US. But IN any case or by Whatever
way, the United States is now brought in
touch with the world, and to this Nation
for time is given the torch of civilization
TO Keep afiame and to pass on to the future.
me burden is on the whole people. There
will be few names in bronze-most will be
writ in water. "One volunteer troop is as
good as another; you were fortunate in be-
Dewey, Schley, Sampson, Hobson. Shafter,
Miles, Mckinley, Alger, Sem, Sternberg,
Fish, Astor are not heroes alone: they are
representative Americans by choice or ac-
c1dent doing duty at the front. There are
thousands of others in camp in city and on
farm just as capable, patriotic and
courageous
The reporters and school histories will use
these names for while; every great move
ment has its names, its dates and it's places
The mists of time will at the last obscure
personality and party and in the philos-
Ophies of history and the epics of the poets
it will be simply recorded that at the close
of the nineteenth century the whole Ameri-
can people bowed low to the power outside
of itself that makes for righteousness, and,
so doing, took an advanced place in civiliza-
ton.