Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-06

favor. May our humble cry In this hour
be:
Lord God Of hosts, be with US yet,
Lest We forget; lest We forget
Let us not, in these troublous times,
when the frowning front Of wal lowers
upon US, give ourselves up TO vain boast
ing and loud elamor, but rather may we
face the unknown and immutable future
with calmness, with steadtastness, with
that quiet determination that dares and
does. Let us, o friends, be truly great !
great with that high, seli.contained
r~easonableness that has been command
ing the respect Of all men since time be-
gan. What matter though We have been
moderated, louted, jeered at They all
know now. Since that memorable day
when Dewey sailed into Manila harbor
and swept it clean, many former concep-
tons in regard to the United States have
been very radically revised. We have
endured much, suffered and submitted
to much, but that is the American way.
lis the price that greatness pays for be.
ing great. Alas, that the price should
sometime be so high
This endurance has led to q vital mis-
conception Of us on the continent Of Eu-
rope, those powers which stand ever with
hand on hilt, ready to loose the dogs Of
war. They could not conceive the situa.
ton; they understood not that behind
that placid, careless front, slept many
passions that would better not be reused
to action. Time, which makes all things
even, went on; the hour struck and the
drums began to beat. Then aroused, like
the noise Of many waters, THE great
heart OF the people, %throbbing, answered
Lord, We come"
On the morning OF May lat, our great
commodore. ignoring the mines with
which the harbor mouth was planted
steamed into Manila bay. When the sun
rose over that placid sheet Of water, II
looked down upon a sight such as in al
its wanderings since time began, tina
unwinking eye had not before beheld
There the great scaled dragons Of III,
sea with ffowning ports glared at eacl
other across the narrow space. Ant
even as its first rays fell upon them, gid
ing and shining steel and polished bras
with radiant glory, the thin cloud.cur
! tain Of fog was drawn up by inyisibl
hands and the drama opened with tina
! one hoarse cry sent up by the buatswail
I Of the II Igship: Remember the Maine.
! Aud that cry, which might cause tn
! very dead to rise. went ringing u
through the vast spaces to the blue hesy
, ems, beseeching not vengeance but jus
tice. Then In that narrow space brok
forth the fires Of hate and OF bel
Twas
Fire and hail and yawning sea.
And may Chust receive my SOUL
Above the crashing Of rent and spin
tered steel rises the barking Of the Colt,
: the rafting OF the Maxims and the roaI
! ing thunder Of the heavy guns. Then a
. intermissiOn, and again that awful che
rus breaks forth. From the mast hea
OF a burning ship a white dag lutter
the greatest naval victory the world hi
! ever known Is won, and the America
people become a great factor upon TN
n great stage on which appear 30 man
tragedies, 80 many comedies, and
many melOdramatic farces, follOwin
each other like shadows in swift proceI
sion-the wide stage from which the hi
tories Of the peoples of the earth are pr,
scented.
This much, o gallant commodore, wi
as a barefoot boy played upon the stou
fells and rOck.ribbed hills OF old We
q mont, may one man-One capable mau
decision do.
n "The Spartans, with a Rrench.lil
2 Qualification, boosted OF little ThermOp
lac, where three hundred men In a ma
10 row pass between the mountains and 4
sea, held the whole Persian army at ba
g. But in all history there is no greater g
n ample Of courage aud herOism than I
IL act performed by Lieut.. Hobson and
e. men 10 taking in and sinking the Mer.
n mae across the harbOr mouth at Sa
81 tiagO de Cuba. Il was such All action
or makes US have faith in men-a story
" preserve and hand down through I
y ages. These men literally passed throu.
T. the valley Of the shadow OF death.
g. II is said that when Admiral Samps
called for volunteers for this dangerO
H. mission, the whole fleet expressed a {
Of sire TO go. Every man was a hero.
y, By the way, II is not necessary Il
m one should face shot and shell to be- th
NJ duty and even death may be found
IN many forms. Some years ago, when
to engine on the monitor Amphitrite bro
m down, il was only the prompt action o.
no coal HEAVIER, one Bill Sweeney, that say
N her from destruction.
IL BIN Sweeney is the Teller
When the stitbuatd engines broke,
I, Tie stays below In scaldinR steam
3y Where a man was like to choke;
And he lodges the hyin' crauks, does Bill
And he climbs past that hammeun' rod;
The rest an run,
H. Every mothers son,
~ But he shuts her OIL, thank Cody
Of There are heroes Of peace AZ we'll
heroes OF war. He, who with hand M
,H the throttle speeds into the night, he "
he swings the hammer or handles the pla
ht serves his country az truly as man G.
lie Not all a go to the front, and he v
~ remains renders also an important Z
vice.
er As to England's attitude in the pres
no crisis, there are probably some Anne
go cans who do not credit them with
much disinterestedness as Iea
exists on their part. While a pol
L. people, AZ their great interests demi
Ia that they shall be, they are a stubbI
10 race, and are very apt to stand upon
Al side OF right and humanity. II has b.
said that they are a nation with
OF sentiment, but II this were examil
M into tbink thaFa uvouId D.. T,upH a