The Newtown bee., 1898-10-14

Ladies and Gentlemen of Danbury
and vicinity L stand here Ia your pres
epce ton GIT, at the instance anC
through thu partiality of the Rev D.
Bowdtsb, the el( quent pastor anG preach
er in this parish, co speak before you OF
the subject of Cuba, or the rUggle OIL
the races, the Latin and the Al gk,-Sa K
on-for mastery in the New World.
The subj5c is "a large, AS we'll ,ls live
one to-day, aid chal el ges the attention
not only OF our own c0u tly, but of The
entire world, wht reever civilization
exists or Christianity extends. Let us
then bril- fly, without pr, face or pream-
| BILE, enter at once upon the cons liberation
of our subj Ct, invoking the grace and
fav, of tie bod LO d above US, to sue-
tain our effort to present fair, if NOT a
full, statement of the facts, and that my
audience may be clothed with both fOrti-
tude and patience with the impeIfectiOns
and short comings Of their speaker.
Now what is race -? Shakespeare
says: 1.-The whole race of mankind -
Noah Webster, the photographer, an
swer5: THE descendants of cOldmOn
ancestor family-a tribe, people or
nation" The L9tin race comprises four
natiOnalities with as many di.IinCt lar
guages, but all having the same religion
and kindred laws. They are Spain,
France, Italy and Portugal, havirg re-
! spectively II population in the order
named of go 900 900, SO, 900 900, 30 900,
600 and 20, 5O0,00 of people, inc udl 2
the parent county and their res pecLive
colonies and descendants, and the -four,
to-day, together aRgre&atiDg 100 800 900
OF the human family, each speaking their
own language in the number afOr esaid.
| While the AuglO-SaXOn race comprises
but two naCiOnaliCies with but one, the
| same language.
The B tish monarchy with its En-
glish-s speaking colonies in various pArte
of the wOrld-COntinenta and nsular-
numbering 40, 900 people, without
counting mUle than 200 900 600 # their
subjects Of other races and tongues,
within their vast en- pie; and our own
American Republic OF 10. 900, 600 f Deo-
pie, together making about 100000 600
who speak the langu &c OF
Shakespeare to- dav in ali parts OF
the world. But when the immortal popc
wrote his PLAYS in "Merrie E0gtand' 300
years ago there Wa but 3 600, 900 of
fOlke in all the world that used his and
our language.
THE LATIN RACE DISCOVERED AND OVER
the Western Hemisphere in irs mad
5CoASh w. &OlC ANA ~ ONAApIOH Ny AoA
the larger part Of ii, when the Pilgrims
landed Oh Plyn outh Rock, on that first
dav of winter, the 2lst of December,
1920, for the lUI pose and with the mo-
tive of worshlpil z God according to the
dictates of their wn conscience, as they
styled such liberty of thought aud free
dom Of action. This was some - years
later Unan the settlement of the first En-
Glish Colony at Jamestown in Virginia,
on the banks of the Potomac, by Capt
John Smith and his company the friend
Of Pocahontas, the beautiful and ben
evo ent Indian girl who saved his life
from a sudden and violent death.
Then all of North America, Except
wide strip of land extending from the
Mississippi river eastward above the
boundary lines o. Louisiana and Florida
90 their northern borders to the Atlantic
and extending nOrthwa'd to an hrt gular
east and west line little above the
northern shores of the Great Lakes and
the st Lawrence riVer) was Claimed by
the Spanish and Frenc /, branches of the
Latin race, by the right of dis covery and
their said right and title to the same was
ratified and confirmed by the Holy Faith
er of Papal Rome. ALI of Central and
South America, with the adjacent islands
was then owned and occupied by the
LhLlu IdGGsdS Represented ny bilC CpduiSuy
French and Portuguese in B jazil, the
Italian branch seemingly cont, Mt with its
piritual ownership and ecclesiastical
super vision over every part, without
claiming or exercising territorial donin-
ion over any specific portion, beyond the
influence of the Roman church.
Within the current century Spain has
sold to us of the Saxon race, all of Flori-
da for So, 900, 900, and France, through
Napoleon B .naparte, their emperor,
sold ali Of Louisiana and I'll the territory
extending north We sterlv 70 the Pacific
ocean to our President Jefferson fer $l5,-
600, 900, and our dear Unc e Sam, by
jIdIciuus Commlngling of conquest and
purchase, ON Mexico, Just so years
ago, secured the ownership of Texas and
California and all north of the Rio Gran
de tor $l0,000,000. The same national
Uncle Samuel aforesaid, for the sum of
81 800 900, bought out all the right, title
and interest of the Gar of all the Russias
to, and in our northwestern territories
in the Arctic regions known as Alaska.
So much for the Latin and SaxO races, as
to their domici in the New World.
Their first warlike meeting in battle
array was in the summer of 1888, in the
reign OF King Philip I'd of Spain and
good Queen Bees of EDgland, by the in
viucible Spanish Armada, so called,
with its 1874 ships of war, with it's 400
cannon and it's 49, 900 officers and sailors
and 80 900 soldiers who met and fought,
and Il I'd in July of that year, from their
British victors in the English Channel
and eff the coast of Ireland, and miser-
ably
FAILED IN THEIR GRANDILOQUENT AND
LONG AND LOUDLY PROCLAIMED
| UNDERTAKING.
SpaIn's policy seems to have always
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