Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-27
SOLDIERS Do YOUR Duty
Waiierson Pours Forth Patriotic 0ratory 10
Kentucky's Volunteers.
A WAR OF FREEDOM AND HUMANITY.
it Is justified by Centuries OF Pillage and
Cruelty by Spain, IA Barbarian That
Must End.

Lexington. KY, May 27.--col Henry
Watterson, editor of the Louisville
Courier journal, made speech to the
troops at Camp Bradley. Lexington,
today, his eloquent and patriotic utter
ances being received with intense en-
thuslasm.
Mr. Watterson said In part:
You are about to make history. It
may prove that this will not be history
merely repeating itself. For the first
time since the crusades war has been
levied for no cause of a purely ma
terial kind, and with no selfish pur-
pose. scarcely like the shibboleth
Remember the Maine" 1t seems to
me to be too revengefu to be quite
worthy. l do not forget the circum-
stances to which 1t owes its origin. The
scene of that awful tragedy under the
shadow of Moro castle is yet before
my eyes. l can see, as close them.
the very faces of our murdered sailors
with the ghastliness of death upon
them. But l also see the myrads of
starving men, women and children.
ruthlessly sacrificed to feed the lust
and to I'LL the pockets of professional
plunderers masquerading in Cuba as
Spanish officers and gentlemen. Behind
them / see three centuries of wanton
pillage, of frightful corIuption,of cruel
ty unsurpassed in human annals. The
time was long ago come for some great
power to stretch forth Its hand to in
terpose Its authority and to say to the
world, This barbarism shall proceed no
further. What power except that of
the United States was to do this? Gu
ba IL our next door neighbor. Time OUT
Of mind these atrocities have been per-
petrated before our eyes. Whilst Spain
has required us to spend millions OF
money policing our coasts against the
fllibusters. she has shown herself I'M
able or unwilling, in our protection, to
police one of her own harbors. Was
this to go one forever? You, your
selves, are the answer to the question.
you are going to fight a battle
waged by man for man. You are go.
ing therefore in the name of that
Christ who died for men. You are
going to fight battle for the glory
of God and your native land. You
are going. therefore, under flag which
is the symbol at once of freedom and
humanity, 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
nag.
mo man can be u good soldier who
Is not at heart good man. Self
possession in the presence of danger ID
the truest courage, and he Is the brav-
| est soldier who keeps his head. who
knows perfectly the right thing to do.
and who does Vt 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 the constituted
authority; duty to country and honor.
and to those dear ones at home VINO
will follow you with ever fearful. but
ever Frightening eyes.
81 believe In this war. / believe In
1t with all my mind and with all my
soul. II ever there was Justified war.
It Is this. Though 1t should rob me OF
lives that are dearer to the than my
own life. shall believe It conceived In
a holy spirit sanctified by heaven and
directed toward the advancement and
the enlargement of benign ctviliza-
ton.
"In those warlike spectacles. every
where manifest, 1t has already united
us as nothing else could have united
us-emancipa eng 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, II has already exploited US as a
naval power, and as you yourselves
shall show, 1t will presently demon
strate us no less military power, but
at whose legions the enemies of liber-
ty and humanity will do well to look
before they leap. Surely these were
consummations devoutly to be wished.
They are worth all the war costs us
or win cost us. l know what war
means.
coincidence. submission, is the first
and perhaps the hardest of the SOL
dier's duties. II officers seem capri
cious or tyrannicaL do your duty 1t
will come around all right II the pow
ers that he seem partisan or unfair,
do your duty. The end will justify
You. BE sure THAT. In the long run.
the man who does his duty, passes be-
yond the reach OF wrong; for. as there
is God who saith Vengeance Is mine
i will repay so there Is people
whose voice is the voice of God. who
will visit upon those that would con-
vert the places Of trust which they
chance to hold into places of private
or political advantage, punishment
as complete as It Is certain, as blight
ing as it Is overwhelming.
"In the nature of the case but few
of you can hope to attain to great
commands or to acquire exceptional
distinction. In the end most of you
must lay aside your uniforms and re-
sumo the habiliments of civil life. But
there Is no one of you who cannot do
his duty, and doing his duty. cannot be
proud and happy.
"A neighbor OF mine came to me the
other day to ask me exert my supposed
influence In getting his son a commits
sion. ] assured him that had no i'm
fluence, but said /. I have two sons
carrying muskets in the ranks-sons
whom i dearly love-but for whose adj
vancement I shall not put forth the
slightest effort. 1t is enough for me to
know that they are serving their coun-
try, and If 1t pleases God to bring
them back to their mother and me safe
and sound, l shall bless His name as
long as l live.
I'm that prayer let me Include each
and every one of you; though / would
rather see my boys, and each and
every one Of you, lying by the side OF
that brave and lovely sailor lad whom
North Carolina has just given up as
heavens first sacrifice upon the affairs
of the nation and mankind, than that
one feather should be plucked from the
eagles wing, or syllable of reproach
be justly cast upon the name and
fame OF our dear kentucky"
Won Big Stakes.
London, May 27.--The Duke of Port
lands brown filly, Airs, and Graces. by
Ayrshire. out of Lily Alwyne. won the
Oaks stakes of $500 soverelgns at Ep-