The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-10
eminent. The United States has been

eminent. The United States has been
governing for fifty years Il domain
nine. as large as oil Europe,
which 1t takes a dozen monarchies to
govern. II isn't breadth OF territory
that governs. It's principles OF gov
ernment. and so long as the United
States shall maintain the freedom, the
equality and the sovereignty OF her cit
izens. that long she is lit to govern the
belted globe. And the Republican
party Intends that she shall maintain
the freedom. the equality and the soy-
ere!gnty of her citizens forever.
He who says that this has been q
war Of conquest utters bitter false
hood. We fought this war to sweep
cruelty and barbarity from the govern
Irents OF the Western hemisphere. and
we swept them. Now Cuba shall be
free, The United States will keep the
promise made at the beginning OF the
war TO make her free. More than that
the men and women OF Porto Rico, Ha-
wall and the Philippines, too, shall
stand forth In Gods clear sunlight. the
peers OF the proudest citizens OF the
earth. Spain took those islands Of the
tropical sunshine and filed them with
shadows as cold and gray as the
mighty forests of the car. Under 4
erea government, the sunshine shall
break through the clouds again, and
they shall bad and blossom as the
rose.
What was the first act OF General
LAYTON when he was put In command
at Santiago? He opened the public
schools TO the four Thousand boys and
girls OF the department Of Santiago. Let
me recall another scene. Last Fourth
OF July the transport China was out
on the placid Pacific carrying thou
sands of our soldier boys TO the aid
OF Dewey and TO the conquest Of an en-
plre. On that beautiful morning, Gen
eral Greene gathered those boys about
him. read TO them the Declaration OF
Independence and those boys cheercd
facts taken from hundreds mean that
we are starting out to plumber the ma
lions?
Tho Spells ofWar.
II Is true we are going to gather some
of the spoils Of war. But our spells are
to be the legitimate fruits Of commerce
and of trade. We are going to build
great navy now. because great navlcs
command the high seas to be at peace
OF commerce. We are going to build
the Nicaragua canal, and put It under
the thirteen inch guns of Uncle Sam.
Yonder on the shores OF Asia Is one
half the population OF the world 1t Is
In an nunumbered fold the richest
OF the fields for the competition OF our
commerce. The cotton market of the
South Is depressed. Yonder are hun.
dreds OF millions. who never saw cot
ton garment. and yet who need them
above everything else. Farmer, the
grain OF the West, ought to go yonder
and not come east to compete with
yours. Manufacturer md laboring
man, the products of your toll are al-
ready too great for the demands OF this
country, md the tremendous surplus OF
your products must seek not the al
ready overcrowded marts of Europe,
but the inestimable markets yonder
across the Pnciilc. which shall develop
as the twentieth century shall reveal to
those people the. comforts and the lux
uries of civilization. The nation which
has the Nicaragua canal will be the
unfettered master OF that commerce,
because 1t Is an axiom true since the
dawn of history that trade always fol-
lows the flag. The impetus of our
aAVusSu SoIiIIiIcEClul uCllN1ty Will not
forget the ports of South America, ell
Their. Add these splendid facts 10 the
unalternble truth that your marvellous
Inventive genius can defy the competi-
ton OF every people. and you can see
1t written In the fates that the untold
wealth Of South America and the ORR
ent Is Mt your feet IL you will but take
1t. And so sure rs the hand of time
Shat continue to write the pages Of hui
mai history, 50 sure as the stars and
stripes shall continue to float In the
American sky. that sure We are going
to take and command those markets.