The Van Buren press., 1898-09-17
WAR WILL DO GOOD.
Arp Shows the Sunshine That Will
Come After the Storm.
That tAnglo-AmericaD Alliance Bill
Favors the Scheme in Order to
CIvilize the People of Other
Countries.


If this war was waged for humanity's
sake--that is, for the purpose of feed
ing the starving Cubans-of course it
has failed of its purpose, for they have
not been fed. But even though our
government made a blunder in assign
ing a eause-a casus belli-and instead
of feeding the starving have killed
thousand Spaniards afar off in the Phil
ippines, and 5000 more at Santiago,
nevertheless the war seems to have been
the elimination of many grievances
and has already resulted in inestima-
BILE good. Whether it be manifest des-
tiny or the will of God and the full
fillment of prophecy, we cannot tell,
but can only say, as of old If this
thing be of man it will come to naught,
but if it come from God we cannot fight
against it." One thing is certain. 1t
has exalted the prowess, the genius and
the resources of the American people
more than anything that has ever hap
pened. The United States now stands
acknowledged by the great powers of
the world as equal to any of them, and
her only rival has solicited her hand
in fraternal union. At banquet given
the other day in British Columbia to
Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Hon. Mr..
Macintosh, the lieutenant governor,
paid to Americans the following beau
tiful tribute:
ITO our American friends who are
present we cannot refrain from ex-
tending our congratulations for the
recent achievements of their army and
navy while waging white mans war
for the extension of modern civilization,
and we implore them to cast their in
fiuence for white mans policy of an
Anglo-SaXon alliance. cloud cheers.)
There can be no legitimate civilization
where Bible is carried in one hand
and drawn sword in the other. When
the great English-spealdng nations link
their fortunes together, then the war
drum will throb no longer and the bat
tie flag will be furled and a union be
perfected that will be sanctioned and
blessed by the Almighty. (lmmense
applause.) Then will be written by
angel fingers the brightest page in his
tory, on which will be recorded the
union of the powers owning the same
origin, speaking the same language,
but long severed by passion and prejL
dices for which the older must accept
responsibility. (Applause.) Then will
be established the greatest confedera-
tion of freemen the world has ever
dreamed of. Each star upon the flag
of the United States will then repre-
sent civilizing power and each Brit
ish colony an auxiliary force, all work.
ing together in concert-all honoring
the flag of our fathers and all revering
the banner of liberty and patriotism.
loud cheering.) Mr.. Mayor and gen
tlemen, give you the stars and stripes
and the union jack. Long may their
varying tints reunite and form in heav-
ems light one arch of peace"
Isn't that fine? Could it have been
better said? Are we not all for that
an alliance with grand old England,
our mother, from whom we have long
been estranged-a white race who now
asks for an alliance with the white race
of this country for the Christian civili-
zation of the world.
Our recent victories on sea and land
have done this. Old solid, sturdy Eng
land has long had doubts of our abil-
ity and our craftsmanship. She has
been prejudiced against our republican
form of government, but is now con-
vinced and converted, and is forced to
admit that the people can be trusted
to govern themselves. But the stress
and emphasis that Mr.. Macintosh pays
to a white mans government must be
a whitening rebuke TO Mr.. Mckinley,
who still seeks to humiliate our people
by placing the negro over us. The New
York Press is now the most infuriated
organ of the republican party, and in
recent issue says: 1--WE want no pos
session or control of the Philippine is
lands or of any other islands that have a
hybrid, mongrel, lawless population. 1t
would cost us millions of money and
a century of time to civilize them and
educate them to the blessings of good
government. Right here within our
own domain we find it impossible TO
control and regulate the conduct of
some of our own people, for in South
Carolina and Georgia we cannot punish
the people for killing one negro post
master and manning another" Isn't
that funny? That party still seeks TO
humiliate us with the negro and to
keep up the strife. We were hoping that
this war would wipe out all this bitter
ness, and if il did it was a war worth
lighting; but it looks now like politics
is shaping itself to continue the sec
tional strife. Mr.. Hemphill has been
invited up north to make speech on
fraternal union, and maybe he can stop
this agitation and help TO give us fra
ternal peace, but am afraid not. II
it were left TO the soldiers, we would
have a white mans government such
as Mr. Macintosh desired, but already
the contention has begun-whose war
is it-who killed cock robin-what
party is to have the political benefit
of the glory2
But we shall see what we will see.
The smoke is not cleared away yet.
1t may be that peace is still afar off,
and if the preachers who are writing
about the prophecies are not mistaken,
the was has just begun. The fifth vial
of St. John is not near poured out. The
preachers amuse me. When l was a
Young man Napoleon Bonaparte was
proclaimed as the beast, and his num-
Der was six hundred and sixty and six.