The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30
AN AGE OF NEW THINGS
DECORATION-DAy ADDRESS BY
JUDGE DANIEL p. BALDWIN.
Interesting Talk on Phases of the
Present War and Extension of Ter
ritory-MemOriaI Services.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


L,OGANSPORT. Ind, May 29.-Judge D.
p. Baldwin tonight addressed a large au-
dience in one of the churches of Logans-
port. I'VE have" said he Christmas eve
and New Years eve. both perhaps of greater
Importance that the following days--the one
is consecrated to Santa Claus and the chill
dren and the other sacred to swearing off
all bad habits and beginning afresh the
next day. Why not follow the same pleas
ant custom as we are doing tonight, and
when Decoration day comes on Monday con-
vert the preceding Sunday evening into
Decoration day eve and devote it to religious
services preparatory TO the next day?'
After dwelling upon the soldiers work in
the great civil war and our unfinished work
in the future to supplement his work, the
speaker launched out and spoke about the
war with Spain. in substance as follows:
This is the age of new things. We have
the new education, the new astronomy, the
new geometry, and to keep pace with them
we have here in the United States new
nationality This new nationality began a
generation ago with the abolition of slavery
with the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, and the rehabilitation of our national
life with new ideas and forces. These new
influences have made us, for all intents and
purposes, a new nation. The United States
of forty years ago is essentially a back
number, and just as her gunpowder. is
being superseded by dynamite, steam by
electricity. SO the old sleepy slave-catching
Union of 1858 is superseded by the wide
awake new Union of $685. In 1858 we had
North and South, black and white now
North and South are simply geographical
points. AS Ex-Governor Bob Taylor re-
marked, the old Mason and Dixon line in
stead of marking where freedom and slavery
once glared at each other, now marks the
division line between that portion of our
seventy million people who, north of it, eat
cold bread and south of it have hot biscuit
three times a day. The appointment of
Fftzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler 10 major
seneraiships in the new army marks the
end of the afterglow of secession. The rail-
road has accomplished its work and to-day
the cotton mills of South Carolina. manned
by colored labor. are driving to the wall in
friendly competition the New England cot
ton lords The most profitable moments of
my NE are those in which l recall personal
memories or the fifteen years that preceded
the war ana compare them with the greater
Gays ana broader ideas of our new national
~. ms new nationality finds itself sud
denly confronted with the question of why
not new ana reconstructed International
lty! In the Atlantic Monthly for Nav ex-
AAlSIldIu OineS naSNd in
structive article entitled The International
Isolation OF the United States We are no
longer 10 be held and bounded by either
Atantie or Pacific as heretofore. Hawaii
ana Cupa are now, tor all lntents and pur-
poses, american territory Each day IL
grows increasingly impossible 10 say no 10
the application of these great islands. whose
manifest destiny is to become OUTLYING paris
OF the great Republic.s We do moi want
mem; we have people enough We have
ianid enough But a nation, IKE an individ-
ual, often has TO do things that are Sincon-
Venient 10 do and which it, does very re-
luctantly. No good citizen San refuse to
care for and adopt those human walls and
misnts that Providence throws IN his wav
IN the shape OF oppressed and deserted bows
and girls, or often grown men and Nvomer
Inns duty Is q part of the great law of
service and self-sacrifice which our relieiong
enJoins upon US. So with nations We densJ
want Cuba, but Cuba wants us and cannot
90 without US. We don't want Hawaii. but
nawail wants us and cannot do without us
Ihese oppressed and rudimentary peoples
mold out their hands to US and pray 10 he
come parts OF our great Nation. We can
not turn inem aMay-GOd forbids us to do
il-dny more than we can turn away the
beggar who asks to share in our oveff1oM-