Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-05-19

audience. but the majority easily carried
it's point.
By way Of emphasizing disapproval
at rebukes, several expansiOnists were
expelled from the hall. One Of these,
Il was said, IL an usher at the First
Methodist church in Chicago. Finally,
toward the end OF the meeting,
the partisans came 10 blows.
Epithets were hurled at the speakers in
the midst of sentences. The lie was
given from pit and gallery TO rostrum.
Those who protested against the spirit
Of the meeting and the sentiments ex-
pressed and the statements made were
threatened with election. As this did
not suffice TO quiet them, they were
smitten from the rear. and finally as
the meeting was breaking up, were
prodded with umbrellas and canes.
The minority auditors remained silent
until Prof. ]. Laurence Laughlin asked
II Americans might not soon be ashamed
Of the war. Then was raised the cry Of
"Demagogue When the same speaker
told story OF the killing Of four Fill
pino captiyes by the American soldiers
during an engagement several men in
different parts Of the house stood up and
shouted. "You lieW Traitor" "This
il treason :" and ''shame on you
During Sigmund Zeisler's Introductory
remarks in which he asked dozen
questions, he was answered by wild roars
OF ayes" and "NO." When he asked
"Who is the traitor now?' one youth
yelled, william Mckinley" When
Bishop, Spalding said "The less we
have TO do with England the better off
we will be, broad shouldered giant in
the gallery jumped up. waved his
handkerchief and shouted Hit 'em
again." When the speaker and the
audience thought they had finished
laughing at this unanounced entertainer
he broke loose again sayingsin explana-
tion Of his first shout, ''Im Irish"
But the greatest disturbance came
when the prelate said that England was
in no sense a democratic nation; that
it was ruled by aristocrats more than
any other netion on the face Of the
earth. One old man with long whiskers
arose and said, solemnly and distinctly;
That's not true" The speaker was
Disconnected for moment, but he
faced his accuser and returned: at
IL true" When the bishop said that
Capt. Coghlan was egged on 20 his
utterances against the kaiser by certain
English naval oiiicars, another believer
in the Anglo.American alliance cried
out: That's lie, a-liel"
At this point dozen heated argu-
ments began in all parts Of the house.
Cries of "Put them out!" quieted the
disturbers and the debators contented
themselves with glaring into each others
eyes, whispering epithets and occasion
ally reaching over the heads Of those
between them and fencing with umbrel-
las and canes But the bishop finished
his address. Other speeches were
similarly interrupted.
The ablest address was delivered by
Bishop Spaulding. We regret we cannot
present 1t In full but print following ex-
tracts.
We have sympathized with all OPP
pressed peopla-with Ireland, Greece,
Armenia, Cuba. To emancipate the
slave we gladly sacraticed the lives Of
hundreds of thousands of our soldiers.
And now the American soldier who
should never shoulder gun except in
righteous cause Is sent ten thousand
miles across the ocean To shoot men
whose real crime il that they wish 10
be free, wish to govern themselves. To
say that they are unfit for freedom
" W put lOiAll lllN lli'h VI AilN " hllA III
all ages and everywhere. The enemies
OF liberty have never lacked for pre-
texts to Justify their wrongs; but. in
truth, at the root Of all wars Of con-
quest there lies lust for blood or for
gold.
What we have 10 learn il how 10 live,
how to distribute our money, how to
take from il its mastery over ~ and
L.. al ta4
fast becoming the most inhumnn, the
most iniqutous tryant the world has
ever known. Its tyranny is blight
aud curse 10 those who exercise il a.
we'll as 10 the multitude who are its
victims. Commercial and manufacture
ing competition is becoming a struggle
for existence liercer than that which
makes nature red with rapine in tooth
and claw. Whereas the tendency OF true
civilization aud religion is to convert the
struggle for life into corporation for
life, into work Ol all for all
that all may have those inner goods
which make men wise, holy, beautiful
and strong whereas this is the tendency
of right civilization, our greed, our SUI
perstitious belief in money as the only
true God and Savior of man, hurries us
on with increasing speed into all the
yenalities, dishoncstles and corruptions,
into all the tricks and trusts by which
the people are disheartened and inn
proyished, We are hypnotized by the
glitter and glare the pomp aud cir
cumstnnce OF wealth, and are becoming
incapable OF a rational view of life. We
have lost taste Tor simple things and
simple WAYS, We flee from the country
As from "A desert and find splf.forvpt- |
luluess only amid the uosie and rush of
great cities where high thought and |
pure affection are Wcll-nigh impossible. !
How far We have drilted from that race
of farmers who threw off the yoke of
England and built the noble State who |
believed that honor was better than
money, freedom than luxury and dis |
lie who knows that the good Of life
lies within, that ID Is infinite, capable of
being cherished, loved and possessed
more and more hy whoever seeks il
with all his mind and heart, can never
think that a Nations first duty is 10
spread It's trade, even at the loss Oi all |
that constitutes the true dignity Of man,
in mulitudes of men aud women who are
degraded "a the level OF machinery.
Personality Is the highest aud most
sacred fact We know Rs personalities
rcligion and culture ar created; prop
agated aud preserved When great souls
are alive with great thoughts and pro-
found emotions, il is good 20 he ON
earth-then God comes nearer and man
is divine.