The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-28
ADDRESS TO SOLDIERS
Henry Watterson Talks to the
Volunteers of Kentucky.
ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY
The First Time Since the Crusades That
War Has Beer waged for No Self
ish Purpose-A Reunited
North and South.

anu people came INTO heAihs'oh 'o-ud!
TO witness the civic and military pa
peant followed bv n review by Cow
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troops now here, and to hear an ad-
dress 10 the troops nv Henry Waiter
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were ended 300 school children sang
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was given an ovation. When order
was restored wattersOn smoke as fol-
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MI. Watterson said In part:
you are about to make history. II may
prove that this will not be history merely
repeating itself. For the first time since
the Crusades wal has been levied for no
cause of a purely material kind, and with
no selfish purpose. / scarcely like the shib-
boleth, Remember the Maine 1t seems
to me to be too revengeful to be quite
worthy. I do not forget the circumstances
to which IL owes its origin The scene of
that awful tragedy under the shadow of
MORO castle is yet before my eyes. 1 can
see as l close them. the very faces of our
murdered sailors with the ghastliness of
death upon them. But | also see the myr-
lads of starving men, women and children
ruthlessly sacrificed to feed the lust and
to fill the pockets of professional plum
derers masquerading in Cuba as Spanish
officers and gentlemen. Behind them /
see three centuries of wanton pillage. of
frightful corruption. of cruelty unsur-
passed in human annals. Ii was time for
some great power to stretch forth its
hand. to i%nterpose its authority and say
to the world This barbarism shall pro-
coed no further
what power except that of the United
States was TO do this? Cuba is our
next door neighbor. Time out of mind
these atrocities have been perpetrated be-
fore our eyes. Whilst Spain has required
us TO spend millions of money policing our
coasts against hlibusters. she has shown
herself unable or unwilling, in our protec-
ton. to police her own harbors. Was this
to go on forever? You, yourselves, are the
answer to the question.
You are going to light a battle waged
by man for man. You are going. there
fore, in the name of that Christ who died
for man. You are going to light a battle
for the glory of God and your native land.
You are going, therefore, under a flag
which is the symbol of freedom and hui
manity, and. having Gods blessing upon
II. has never yet known defeat. Look to
1t that you carry yourselves as soldiers
equally of the cross and the flag.
mo man can be a good soldier who is
not at heart a good man. Self-possession
i'm the presence of danger is the truest
courage, and he Is the braVest soldier who
keeps his head; who knows perfectly the
right thing to do and who does it when.
frightened out of his boots. his legs
would fain carry him away. 1t is the sense
of duty which will make you men: duty
to the flag above you, duty to constituted
authority, duty to country and honor to
those dear ones at home who will follow
you with ever-tearful but ever-brighten-
ing eyes.
81 hplipNp I'm this war haIfaya in "a
with all my mind and with all my soul.
If ever there was a justified war IL is
this. Though ii should rob me of lives
that are dearer to me than my own life.
! shall believe IL conceived in a holy spir-
II, sanctified by heaven and directed to-
wards the advancement and the enlarge
ment of a benign civilization.
This war has already united us as
nothing else could have united us: eman-
cipated both sections of the union from
the mistaken impression that we ever
were or could be anything else than one
people. In the brilliant achievement of
that typical Green Mountain boy on the
other side of the globe IL has already ex-
plotted us as a naval power. and. as you
yourselves shall show, 1t will presently
demonstrate us no less a military power,
at whose legions the enemies of liberty
and humanity will do well to look be-
fore they leap. Surely these were consum-
nations devoutly to be wished. They are
worth all the war costs us or will cost
us. ! know what war means.
"Obedience, submission, is the first. and,
perhaps, the hardest. of the soldiers du-
ties. If officers seem capricious or tryan-
nical, do your duty. II will come around
all right. IL the powers that he seem par
tisan or unfair, do your duty. The end will
justify you. BE sure that, i'm the long run,
the man who does his duty passes be-
yond the reach of wrong; for, as there is
a god who sayeth, Vengeance Is mine-I
Will repay so there is a people whose
voice is the voice of God, who will visit
those that would convert the places