The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-16


one man was sacrificed by mercy; but in
this Experimentation war every drum
mer boy, or picket. or gunner. or stand
ard bearer, or skirmsher, or sharpshooter,
or cavalryman, or artilleryman, or engi-
neer who falls, falls in the cause of mercy.
and becomes martyr for God and his
country.
Another alienation of this war is that
1T IS for the advancement of the sublime
principle of liberty, which will yet engir-
die the earth, Not only will this war free
Cuba, but finally will free Spain. BY what
right does a dynasty like that stand. and
a corrupt court dominate people for CEN
turtles, taxing them to death, riding in
gided chariot over the necks of beggared
population? There are ten thousand boys
in Spain growing up with more capacity
TO govern that nation than will the weak
boy now in the Madrid palace ever possess.
Before this conflict is over the Spanish
nation Will be well on toward the time
when a constitutional convention viii as
semble 10 establish a free government in
stead Of the worn-out dynasty that now
affiicts the people. The liberty of all ma
TONS transatlantic as well as cis-At-
lantic, " not already established, is on the
way and it cannot be stopped.
Napoleon III thought he had success
full driven the principle out of France,
when, on the second day of December
1851, he rode down the Champs Elysees
Of Paris, constitutional government SEEM
ingly crushed under the hoofs of his
steed. But did it stay crushed? Let the
batteries on the nights above
Sedan answer. and the shout
of two hundred and fifty
thousand conquering hosts and the letter
OF surrender to Emperor, William tell the
story. Sire, My Brother: Not having
been able to die in the midst of my troops
il only remains for me to place my sword
in your Majesty's hands, 1 am, your Ma
jesty, your good brother, Napoleon. Sc
dan, l September, 1870" That monarchy
having fallen, then the French republic
resumed its march.
Another alienation is that the war
opens with a great victory for the United
States 1t took our government four years
to get over the fiasco at Bull Run. A de-
feat at the start of this present war
would have been disheartening to the last
degree, and would have invited foreign in
tervention TO stop the war before anything
practical for God and humanity had been
accomplished and would have prolonged
the strife, for which we are hoping a
quick termination. In the most jubilant
manner let this victory of our navy be
celebrated. With the story of the exploding
battleship fresh in the minds of the world,
1t required no ordinary courage to sail
into the harbor of Manila and attack the
Spanish shipping. That harbor, crowded
with sunken weaponry of death; to enter
it was running a risk enough to make all
nations SILVER But Manila is ours, and
the blow has shaken to the foundation the
palaces of Madrid, and for policy's sake
the doubtful nations are on our side For
Commodore Dewey and all who followed
him let the whole nation utter ats most
resounding huzza; and more than that,
let us thank the Lord of hosts for his guild
ing and protecting power" Praise we the
Lord Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord'
Another alienation is the fact that in
this war the might is on the side of the
right. Again and again have liberty and
justice and suffering humanity had the
odds against them. 1t was so when Ben
hadads Syrian hosts. who were in the
wrong, al Aphek, came upon the small
regiments OF Israeli who were in the right
the Bible putting il in one of those graph
ic sentences for which the book is remark
able-"The children of Israel pitched be-
fore them like two little hocks of kids, but
the Syrians filled the whole country" 1t
was so in the awful defeat of the Lord S
people at Gilboa and Megiddo. 1t was so
recently when gallant and glorious Greece
was in conflict with gigantic Mohamne-
dansm, and the navies of Europe hover
ing about the Bosphorus were in practical
protection of the Turkish govern
one hundred thousand Armenians.
It was so when, In ITO, the thir-
teen colonies with no war shipping and a
few undrilled and poorly-cad soldiers,
were brought into a contest with the
mightiest navy of all the earth and an
army that commanded the admiration of
nations 1t was so when Poland was crush
!.
1t has been so during all the struggles
heretofore for Cuban independence. But
now it Is our powerful navy against a
feeble group of incompetent ships, crawl
ing across the Atlantic to meet our fiotil-
las, which have enough guns to send them
as completely under as when the Red Sea
submerged Pharaoh's army. 1t is so in
these times, when only a few thousand
1 Spanisrds at most can reach our hemi-
/ sphere, and we go out to meet them with
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
1 armed men, to be backed up speedily with
! five hundred thousand more if needed We
/ do not have to ask for any miracle, but
| only a fair shot al the ships headed this
/ way, and time enough to demolish them.
| This is one of the cases in the worlds his
tory where might and right are shoulder
/ to shoulder.
Another alienation is in the fact that
/ SuCh an dlIOclAy as the obstruction Oh TWO
| hundred and sixty-siX lives in Havana
| harbor in time of peace cannot with inn
punity be wrought in this age of the
worlds civilization. The question as Il
who did that infernalism is too we'll set
tied to need any further discussion. But
what a small crime 1t was, compared with
the systematic putting into their graves
of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, or
| leaving them unburied for the buzzards ia
take care of! If Spain could destroy two
hundred thousand men. women and chill.
dren, the slaughter of two hundred and
sixty-siX people was not a very great UNI
! dertaking. But this one last deed will re-
I suit in the liberation of Cuba, and the
driving of Spain from this hemisphere and
the overthrow of that government, which
will soon drop to pieces If it does not &c
down under bombardment of insulted ma
tons.
There was danger that the long-contin-
ued oppression of our neighbors in Cuba
might be continued from genera ton &c
generation without SUFFICIENT protest OF
our part and the pronounced execratior
of people on both sides of The Atlantic, but
the bursting volcano of destruction in the
harbor of Havana fired the nation and