The morning news., 1899-12-22

earth and the thunderS roll defiance until
the very heavens seemed to reign i'm pam
demonium-and you thought these things
sublime. But there standing uncovered
in his fallow field. with hat in hand, is
a silent, solemn figure grander than all
of them 1t is The living tribute OF a
Christian faith to the great Power which
controls the tempest, regulates the heav-
ems and sets the universe a-coursing 60
the music of the spheres. 1t is that rev.
erence and faith which. exempliied in
all the creeds, have wrought religion out
of paganism and civilization out of chaos;
which have fired the hearts of the mar
tyrs and steeled the arms of the crusaders;
which have consecrated mankind to the
great purpose of creation.
And 50, my fellow countrymen while
The Angelus" speaks these things to us,
the patriot, hat in hand, speaks from the
same inspiration a faith that STAYED the
souls of the Pilgrim fathers when they set
foot on Plymouth Rock; an abiding faith
that filed the hearts of the continental
soldiers who carved Independence out II
bondage faith that failed not when the
firebrand of Civil War blazed fiercely for
four years and then went out; a trium-
phant faith that guided our ships 10 San
tiago and Manila bay and sustained our
soldery when they wrested the grasp of
Spanish tyranny from the Pearl OF the
Antilles; an everything faith that will
burn in the breasts of our statesmen aud
our soldiers until no hostile hand is raised
to menace our flag as long as it floats in
the Philippines.
This brings me to a very practical feat
ure of the Philippine question. The indus
trial development of no section of the
country has been more marked during the
last few years than in the South. where
the staple cotton was once king but where
the manufactured cotton product now di-
Vides the scepter. Until a few years ago
the South grew the cotton for the world
and the raw product was manufactured
elsewhere.
.
1--WE have as yet but touched the bord-
ers of Asiatic trade, and with anything
like a fair basis fer operation, giving us a
vantage ground from where we can partic-
ipate in the fruits of that newly opening
market, we will look confidently to the day
when the South, taking its sister states of
other sections by the hand. will point 10
her overlooking apron of riches, and Head
the joyful chorus that sings the nations
wealth.
Impressed with the security of our free
Institutions, therefore, the voice of the
patriot to-day will sound like clarion
note above the din of contention. for the
maintenance of the country's honor and
the defense of its flag. Without fixed
and permanent increase of our standing
army to unnecessary bounds, let us give
all the men ana the money required to
put down armed resistance to its su-
premacy from any quarter where the flag
has a right to speak the authority of
American manhood. This Is not, and in
the nature of things il cannot be- imperial
ism. 1t does not mean a centralized gov
ernment it does not mean a disregarded
Congress, it does not mean one-man
power il does not mean a resort to Eu-
ropean methods is contrary to our own-it
is patriotism-it is the voice of the man
with his hat in his hand.
How many Americans are there who
stand, figuratively, with their hats in their
hand to the honor of their country and
the glory of its institutions? Who does
not follow with patriotic, but pathetic de-
Voton the hardships of the boys who are
lined tonight in the trenches in the Phil |
ippines, fighting for your flag and for
mine, enduring toll and privation and sac
rihcing their lives that they may carry
the light of civilization and the message of
American progress and prosperity, and
plant them upon the battlements of dark
ness and discord."
Upon the conclusion of his address the
large audience stood up, waved handker-
chiefs, and loudly applauded the speaker.
Mr.. Howell was introduced by Clarence
Bushnell, president of the club, who paid
a glowing tribute 10 Henry w. Grady, |
whose mantle, he said, had not fallen to
the earth, but upon the shoulders of Clark
Howell.
J. j. Spalding and c. A. Collier of All |
lanta, followed Mr. Howell
The former spoke on the race question
from a Southern standpoint, and the latter
gave his experience on eXpositions as pres
ident of the recent exposition in Atlanta.
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