Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-16

! can reach our hemisphere, and we go
| out to meet them with 125, 900 armed
men, to be backed up speedily with $780,
/ 900 more if needed. We do not have to
ak for any miracle, but only fair shot
at the ships headed this way and time
enough to demolish them. This is enc
of the cases in the worlds history
! where might and right are shoulder to
! shoulder.
Doom of Spain.
Another alienation is in the fact
| that such an atrocity as the destruction
! of 266 lives in Havana harbor in time
of peace cannot with impunity be
wrought in this age Of the worlds civil
! lization The question as to who did
! that infernalism is too well settled to
! need any further discussion. But what
! a small crime it was compared with the
systematic putting into their graves Of
hundreds of thousands Of Cubans, or
4 leaving them unburied for abe buzzards
/ to take care of. If Spain could destroy
/ 900, 600 men, women and children, the
slaughter of 266 people was not very
great undertaking. But this one last
/ deed will result in the liberation of Gu
ba and the driving of Spain from this
hemisphere and the overthrow of that
government, which will soon drop to
pieces if it does not go down under
bombardment of insulted nations
There was danger that the long con-
tinued oppression of our neigh bors in
Cuba might be continued from genera
tion to generation without sufficient pro-
test on our part and the pronounced exc
Grafton of people on both sides of the
II e
destruction in the harbor of Havana fired
the nation and shocked the whole civil
LIKED world. All nations will learn that
such an act cannot be repeated without
the anathema of all Christendom. AS
Individual criminals must be punished
for the public good and we have for
them courts of oyer and terminer and
peniteEtiar and electric chairs and
hangman's gallows, SO governments COM
uniting high crimes against God and
humanity must be scourged and hung up
for the worlds Indignation. When in
Spanish waters our battleship, looking
after our commercial interests and in
tending nothing but quietude, was hurl-
ed into demolition and the men on
board, without time to utter one word
of prayer, were dashed into the eternal
world, the doom Of the reigning house
of Spain was pronounced in tones louder
than the thunder which that night roll
ed out over the sea.
Our Hope In God.
Another alienation is the fact that
we have God to go to in behalf of all
those of our countrymen who may be in
especial exposure at the front, for we
must admit the perils. It is no trifling
thing for 100, 900 young men to be put
outside of home restraints and sometimes
into evil companionship. Many of the
brave of the earth are not the good of
the earth. To be in the same tent with
those who have no regard for God or
home, to hear their holy religion some
times slurred at to be placed under in
huences calculated to make one reckless,
to have no Sabbath except such Sabbath
as in most encampments amounts to no
Sabbath at all, to go out from homes
where all sanitary laws are observed
into surroundings where questions of
health are never discussed, to invade
climes where pestilence holds possession,
to make long marches under blistering
skies, to stand on deck and in the fields
under fire, at the mercy of shot and
shell, we must admit that those thus ex-
posed need especial care, and to the
omnipresent God we have a right to
commend them and will commend them.
Postal communication may be interrupt
ed, and letters started from camps or
homes may not arrive at the right desti-
nation, but, however far away our loved
ones may be from us and however wide
and deep the seas that separate US, we
may hold communication with them via
the throne of God.
A shipwrecked sailor was found float
ing on raft near the coast Of Califor
MIA. While in hospital he told his expe-
rience and said that he had compan-
ion on the same raft for some time.
While that companion was dying of
thirst he said to him, George, where
are you going?'' and the dying sailor
said, II hope am going to God. - eff
you do said the rescued sailor, "will
you ask him to send some water?'' After
the death of his companion, the survivor
said, the rain came in torrents and sIak-
ed his thirst and kept him alive until he
was taken to safety. The survivor al
ways thought it was in answer to the
message he had sent to heaven asking
for water. Thank God we may have di-
rect and instantaneous communication
with the Lord Almighty through Jesus
Christ, his only begotten Son, and in
that faith we may secure the rescue of
our imperiled kindred! Is not that a
mighty alienation?
Until this conflict is ended let us be
much in prayer for our beloved coun-
try. Do not let us depend upon the
friendship of foreign nations. Our hope
is in God. Out of every misfortune he
has brought this nation to better NOR