The San Francisco call., 1898-05-04
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 FOR HUMANITY General Harrison on tn e Mission of the Indi- ana Volunteers. Sent to Free People From a Rufffanly Nations
 Brutality. Patriotic Speech Accompanying the Presentation or AmerI-
 can Flag.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

- INDIANAPOLIS. May 3.-This after noon at Camp Mount, where 5000 Indi- ana volunteers are assembled, General Harrison made his first public utter ance on the war in presenting flag to Battery A. on behalf of society ladies. After complimenting the officers and men of the battery upon their efficiency in drill General Harrison said:
 You have. as a trained and organized militia, 6 great advantage over the vol unteers of 1S61-62. Our foes now are not,
 That was a war for the life of the Cn- ion, this d war for humanity That for
 ourselves: this for the, oppressed of an
 other race. We could not escape thls
 conflict. Spanish rule had become eff
 fete. We dare not say that we have Gods commission to deliver the oppressed Tnenians we could send only the succor
 of faith that overcomes death and the alleviatiOns which the nurse and the com ,Inissary can give.
 But the oppressed Cubans and their starving women and children are knock ing a our doors; their cries penetrate our sIumbers. They are closely within what we have defined to be the sphere of Amer ican influence. We have said, "To us, the responsibility and the dangers of this old and settled American policy. We have as a nation, toward Cuba the same high commission which every brave hearted man has to strike down the ruf- fan who in his presence beats woman or child and will not deslSt For what if not for this does God make man or q nation StrOng2
 We have disclaimed in the face of the nations of Europe who are now dividing continents much as hungry boys might divide a melon that we have no purpose to seize and appropriate Cuba. We go to set her free, to give to her own people that which we have claimed and estab- Nshed for ourselves-the right to set up and maintain Government, suitable to their own necessities, controlled by their own suffrages, We coVet from her, as from all the nations of America, only the offices of good neighborS and the fair and natural exchanges of commerce. We do not deny dominion in Europe in order to seize it for ourselves. But we may justly, l think, in the West Indies and in the Far Eastern sea. where our gallant navy has won so splendid a vic- tory hold some little unpeOpled harbors where our cruising warships may coal and find a refuge when in stress.
 l do not doubt that Speedily-though no man can set the times which God plans this great work to which the United States has addressed itself will be completely and permanently accomplished. 1 con- graduate you, my young friends, that you are to have q part in it. 1 challenge your interest and your duty. that you ac- quit yourselves like men; that you enter upon your duties with seriousness and a sense of obligation. which will make you efficient and victorious in your campaign. Let us not forget that there is in all this a moral impulse. and that the soldier who goes from this high impulse. of moral courage is the best soldier after all starving and oppressed women of Cuba. They cannot carry the flag into battle. but they bring it to you, who can. And 10 the significance and glory of the na- their love and the charge that you bear it in honor and bring it home in triumph.