The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-25
PREACH VAR SERMONS
The Rev. John L, scudder
Says the spaniards Must
Go Double Quick.
THE HOUR HAS STRUCK
Patriotic U~tterances From Many
Jersey City Pulpiis
Yesterday.
THE HOUR HAS STRUCK

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In the Tabernacle last night the Rev.
John l.. Scudder preached a red-hot war
sermon. His subject was: Seventy Mil
lion Jingoes.' He said:-
BY nature We Americans are a peace
Iui people. We are opposed to the she'd
ding OF blood and the waste OF war. We
nave no regular army to speak of, and
our navy has never been in keeping with
our national dignity and commercial in
terests. We have sfudiously avoided COM
pications with foreign nations. We have
developed our own resources and dis
couraged the warlike spirit among our
people.
But recently a change has come over
us. Today our Inhabitants are full of
fight, from hoary-headed Senators to
urchins on the street, who noisily discuss
the latest phases of the Spanish-American
conflict. AT present you can find seventy
million jingoes in this ountr me
ape are bristling with martial news.
War vessels multiply as if by magic, and
a wave OF President McKinley's hand will
put 1850 100 men into the field, all anxious
Tor the fray. At a moments notice the
citizen becomes a soldier. Patriotism be-
comes a confiagration in which thoughts
OF ease and comfort and self-preservation
are consumed. and men in all ranks of
life are ready to enlist, from Fred Grant
to tho Boys Brigade.
Now. this unusual desire to fight is
not due to our inherent pugnacity. It is
born OF sympathy for a down-trodden
people, whose wrongs are piled up noun
tain high. Our hearts bleed as we see
the sufIerings of our ~neighbors in Cuba,
and we are thrilled by their heroic efforts
to obtain their liberty. In view of the
atrocities practiced upon them, our indig-
nation for months mas been at the boil
ing point. At last we have reached a
period where We can endure the strain no
The instincts of humanity bid
us intervene in behalf of a l-ong-suffering
people, whose cries of anguish have
~,-r h - - Ht.n wa nT
justice compels US to put an END to Span1
ish cruelty in Cuba, and the world ap-
pIauds US in our ~chivalrous determination
to defend the weak and deliver them from
tolerable to modern civilization. European
nations may stand by and watch the
Turk perseeute and murder tine Ar
menians in cold blood, but America is too
tender-hearted to allow the repetition OF
these butcheries upon her very borders.
Through our Executive we declare in
imperious tones, the Spaniard must go,
and If l interpret the spirit of our nation
Alright, he will have to go double quick.
ours is q righteous war. waged in be-
half of fellow men, and not from a love
or conquest or motives of s~elf-aggran-
dizenent- We have no desire to annex
Cuba. The island is a mere fly-speck
compared with our boundless territory.
When the war is over we snail give the
island to those who righttuliy own it and
are competent to govern themselves. Thls
WAT Is Il COLOSSAL GA4lJILluH u SS1I-SdCii-
flee and disinterested effort. 1t will cost
us hundreds of millions OF dollars and
possibly thousands OF precious lives. Yet
we count not the cost, for we are the
champion OF advanced civilization, and
gladly do we make this contribution to-
wards the coming day when justice and
love shall reign supreme.
And now that war is actually upon
is, let us end 1t as speedily as possible.
IT ejecting the Spaniards from Cuba is
c GOOD fttlinS, let US push 1t with the
characteristic ~promptness and vigor of
tho Anglo-Saxon race. Now mat war IS
our business, let us attend to it with all
our mind and might. Let US adopt heroic
measures ard show the toltering throne
of Spain that we are not a people to be
trihed with: that although we hate war,
We can. if put to it. become the most war
like nation on the face OF the earth. Let
them understand that the explosion be-
meath the Maine is to be followed by an
explosion of American patriotism that
will blow every Spaniard out Of the
Western Hemisphere.