The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-10

citizens for their adopted fatherland The
tree. said he, was the strongest Of tree
everlasting patriotism of the Germans
planted in the breasts of all foreign-born
citizens Of this country. to last as long as
DIR. JAEGER'S ADDRESS.
He then, in German. briefly introduced DR..
Jaeger. who spoke as follows:
The soldiers of the Republic, he urged,
went into camp and field, their realization
of noble purpose making all dangers of
warfare appear to them comparatively in
significant. They believed they were enlist
ing in the service of their government to
liberate a deserving people from oppressive
tyranny.
But said the doctor, "a complete
change took place, especially in the opinion
of the army, as to this judgment upon the
Cubans. The conviction has been freely ex-
pressed that every drop of American blood
worthy cause, to that extent that the whole
Cuban race was not worth single one of
the lives lost by the Americans; An officer
Of General Skaters army said: 'Weyler
should receive a monument. He was the
man who exactly knew how Cubans should
be treated That seems to be hard 1.h and
else the views of our army as to the value
Of the Cubans as people, as contra
had formed their opinions from a safe dis
tance, where yellow journals constantly
spoke of the noble, liberty-loving Cubans,'
until bloody war was at hand. The army
knows what only a very small portion of
the people knew before, and only few
en namey that the war should
never have been precipitated. But it is of
no avail to speak now about that. The war
was waged brilliantly brought to an end,
and the young American Republic has add
ed fresh laurelS to its wreath
The willingness Of the whole people to
trickery and defend the honor of our Ma
tion the daring courage of the whole people.
the bravery and. endurance of every one
who was exposed to the enemy's fire, the
remarkable strength and achievements Of
our now famous fleets, the good discipline
enemy-all these proof of the fine quail
ties of the American Nation and demon
strate that, Notwithstanding the alleged
alteration of the almighty dollar, we are still
capable of heroic deeds.
The war would bring burdens to the peo-
pie in addition to those borne so patiently
before, the doctor said. Not the least of
these, as already felt, would be increased
taxation There could be no Drawer army
and yet after the shock of the conflict that
army was for the most part left in de-
plorable condition through the almost GRIM
inal blunderS Of the QuartermaSter the
commissarys and the hospital departments
If the gentlemen who were responsible for
these plumbers had been half as Jealous in
the performance of their sacred duties as
they are now trying to throw the blame of
their blunders on each other the mistakes
would never have occurred as a shame to
the Republic. There has been entirely too
much of politics in the making of appoint
ments and the general management of the
war, and the people of the country will
sooner or later rise up en- masse and de-
mand that the blame and punishment be
made to rest where it belongs
Referring to the attitude Of the German
government and people at home to the
United States in the early days of the war,
Germany were on the side of Spain. There
were three reasons for this. First, 1t was
because Spain was the weaker nation; sec
ondly because the great commercial leaders
in Germany were disguised with the erect
of the Dingley bill and the ubiquitous in
CAPABILITIES which had come up from an UNI
reasonably discriminating American tariff
against German products and third, for
the reason that the lingo dispatches" man.
over the world by British newspapers had
placed the German government in false
attitude regarding the American govern
ment and people
| At the conclusion Of DIR. Jaeger's address
| the singing societies broke into the strains
| of the Liedersfreiheit by Marchelm
which provoked such tremendous applause
| that they were compelled to sing the Star
! spangled Banner in English, which set
the crowd in such g tumult Of enthusiasm th
| F'rancke could make himself heard after
| lapse of five minutes to introduce Albert j.
| Beveridge whose appearance, however, set
| the crowd to cheering again for another
| minute or two.
MIR. BEvERIDGES SPEECH.
Raising his hand to enjoin silence. Mr..
Beveridge began his speech as follows:
| "Fellow-ctizens-No feature of this great
jubilee, is more, appropriate than that it
| is held Sunday. For this a holy
| war; The God of our fathers presided over
our arms, and all the victories He gave were
| given on the Sabbath day. 1t was on Sun
day that Commodore Dewey fired that shot
| which echoes yet and will forever echo over
all the seas. On Sunday the Spanish fleet
| sailed to its doom, on Sunday Santiago sur
rendered, and Manila yielded on this holy
| day, and so we celebrate the result of all
those events of Immortality; we celebrate
/ G0dC
Peace! The American people know no
peace but victory. We are the only people
| The reason of this is partly. in our blood
partly in our institutions and partly in our
destiny. The basis of American blood is
| Teutonic-the blood that never yields, the
! blood that conquerS, civiliZes, rules-the
| blood of progress, empire and dominion Our
| institutions are the institutions of liberty
| Free institutions make men warlike-make
| all men soldiers at heart, because free in
| stitutions will permit no standing armies
and every citizen must therefore be pre-
pared to defend our common land. When
| the martial color fades from the blood of a
republics citizens that moment it's decree
| of death is written in the book of doom,
other nations, that moment it ceases to en-
| force its international rights or the rights
! of its citizens, that moment 1t fails to pro-
| tect it's trade, propagate its commerce or
| advance it's flag. Monarchies produce war
| like monarchs; republics produce warlke
| peoples. Kings are Warlike to protect their
| thrones; the people of republic war
| like to protect their liberty and spread their
| principles Our institutions guaranteed our
| triumph. We breed of heroes.
| "Is Battery A, the best battery that turned
| an artillery wheel in this flashlight war, had
| been permitted to pull their lanyardS; II any
| Indiana regiment had been given a chance
| to charge up San Juan they would have
| gathered enough glory from the battle fires
| to have made every letter in Indianas name
| blaze with the same glory our heroes shed
J upon it in 1876.
| Behind their desks. following their plows
! over their BENCHES, in factories, shops and
| mils-yes, even lounging IN their clubs
| throughout this militant Nation are a
| million Hobsons. There is enough heroism
| painting for opportunity in this Republic to
| fight thousand Santiagos. And this is due
| in part to our institutions, which make all
| men resourceful, self-reliant, combative
| brave.
| 1.-The songs which generation after gen.
/ GRAFTON of the people sing are those that
| vibrate with patriotism, arms and valor
| Columbia always bears sword for the de-
| Tense of her principles and the safety of the
| flag When our school children form in
| military companies in our streets and to tap
/ of drum march and charge and do mimic
| battle they obey the impulse of their
| blood, which fears not and dares to die;
/ they obey the spirit of free institutions,
| which inspires every citizen to be a soldier
| that he may remain a citizen and they
| obey the voice of our destiny which writes
| across the future the empire of American
/ principles among mankind and the SOW
| ersgnty of our power among the nations.
| r.-,-,rSrNrv ON orr, ID