The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-23


the European emigrant, breaking the
virgin soil. opening the treasure vaults
of mountains, organizing society and
laying the foundations of civil gov
ernment,
HELD THEM IN CHECK.
They have taught the sterling yeo.
manry of Europe how to enjoy the
blessings of civil and religious lib
erty, and have held them in check
when they have attempted to stretch
that liberty into license. 1t was a son
of old New England who, when riot
ran rampant through the streets nf
Chicago, stretched forth the mighty
arm of the federal government and
with one blow sent red-handed anar-
chy groveling into the dust. II was
the son of a Pilgrim who corralled the
Spanish fleet at Santiago, and it was
the plucky son Of a Cavalier who
later sent that fleet to the bottom Of
the sea.
1t was the son of old New England,
in the soft gray of a May morn, ten
thousand miles from home, with no
friendly port no base of supplies, and
faced by an untried and strongly in
trenched enemy, who unhinChingly
sailed into Spanish hell, maintained
the unbrOken movement of a dress
parade during battle, stopped for
breakfast, and then resuming business
where he left off, won one of the most
brilliant victories of the age--a vic
tory to which the historian of the flu
ture will point as the beginning of Il
new and grander epoch in our national
history.
Notwithstanding the opposition to
the advancement OF our civilization
and the extension of our trade ana
commerce by few descendants from
the old Hartford convention of 1914
who opposed our resenting the arro-
| gance of England, the blood of the
Pilgrim. the Puritan and the Cavalier,
diluted in the honest yeomanry from
Europe. and now spread over the vast
area from the Atlantic to the Pacific
is still the seed Of our greatness, the
source Of our political conference, the
hope of our future.
THE DOMINANT PEOPLE.
In all ages it has been the peopic
| of mingled blood that have become
| dOminant-the blood mixed and cul-
! ture interchanged in such m anne" as
! to strengthen the physical while illu-
mining the intellectual man. No mat
| ter what may be the ethics of The
! questions involved i'm territorial eX-
| panson and industrial growth, or what
may be our individual opinions, you
! can no more restrain this people or
stop the growth and development of
this country than you can reverse the
! laws of gravity, or cause the Father
| of Waters To flow nOrthward. But
! why should we wish to restrain then.
Shall we sit gazing into the dark
| shadows of the past, or shall we turn
| our faces toward the gray dawn of the
| future and recognize the fact that we
have duty which we must discharge
as becomes a great and God-fearing
| nation? Andrew d. White says that
| civilization has advanced more by
| revolution and force than by evolution
and moral suasion,
The great Aryan stem from which
| sprang the Anglo Saxon surely has alo
| ways thrived upon resistance and to-
day this people will dominate an 1 con-
| troll, by peace IL possible by war Il
| necessary, every foot of territory over
which floats the emblem of our SOW
ereignty; and we will give to the peo-
pie of our lately acquired possessions
and dependencies the blessings of wise
ly administered and just laws whicl
they coHd not secure Of thec own ig.
norant volition.
The question Is not, Shall We ex-
pand? We have already expanded
TO be sure, our growth was slow n
first. 1t took two hundred years {,
expand westward to the Mississippi
river, but in 1903, as the result o
the war between France and Eng
! laad. we av;oke from our letharFv one