The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-14

The tOastmaster was Senator-elect
Chauncey M. Depew, who delivered an ad-
dress He said in part:
History is fun of wars remarkable only
Tor bloody sacriflces and which accom-
plished nothing for mankind Providence
works always through slight agencies to
bring about revolutions for which the ma
tons are ripe. Seven farmers killed upon
the common at Lexington wrested the
American colonies from the British crown
and created the Republic of the United
States. shell exploded against the walls
of Fort Sumter, broke the shackles from
four millions of bondmen freed this coun-
try from the stain of human slavery and re-
united the Union in indissoluble bonds. An
American man-0f-War blown up in the har-
Dor OF Havana aroused to action that re-
stStless force in the affairs of our time-the
American conscience. No matter what was
the cause OF that explosion, its HaShlight
revealed to every man. woman and child i'm
the United States the hideous conditions in
a neighboring island and the responsibility
of the American government. Within thirty
days, out Of a million volunteers who had
offered to enlist 2o0G09 had been moved into
camp, Sampson and Schley had placed
around Cuba an lmpenetrable blockade. and
Dewey, sailing across the far Eastern
oceans to find the enemy's ships and destroy
them, no matter what might be the dis
crepancy between his own force and that
of his foe. had won the right to repeat the
famous phrase of Caesar, 1 came, l saw,
conquered
L cannot see how the administration or
the peace commissioners representing the
United States could have made any milder
or any different terms from those which
were embodied in that treaty which was.
happily, ratified by the Senate last Tuesday.
Aguinaldo bHilded better than he knew
when he ordered that midnight assault upon
the American soldiers. He assured for his
people American liberty. law and justice, in
stead of the autocracy and the sure and
certain development of tyranny under the
government Of an adventurer who had once
sold his country for Spanish gold and kept
the money and repudiated the contract. BY
the ratification of the tTCdtV the WaVeTinu
prestige Of the United States with foreign
nations has been restored The solemnity of
the situation, the gravity Of the response
bilities we have assumed and the difficulties
Of the task which are before us we all adj
nit. But governments of the people and by
the people demonstrate their capacity for
leadership in the affairs of the world by
solving difficult problems overcoming great
obstacles and 50 settling perilous compica-
tions that civilization Is advanced, freedom
enjoyed and commerce extended.
The United States will not go beysnd
TINS cQhtlheul IoF new stars Tor our nag or
new states Tor our Union. Cuba may in
time be the exception because Of its prox-
unity 20 our shores and because ferry will
be run between our coast and that beautiful
island But that event will not occur until
American emigration and settlement have
made free Cuba prosperous American re-
public, with American ideas. American In
stituti0ns and American spirit, and eanor-
ing for admission as q fully demonstrated
American state to the American Union. Far
distant countries peopled by alien races with
alien civilizations viii never be Incorporated
as part OF our governing body. j believe that
the untried experiment OF American law and
Justice will, when understood ia the Phillips
pines gradually educate these peoples TO the
point where they can be safely intrtlstfri
with the management of their own affairs
Native armies and a native police oficerel
by American officers and supported by the
revenues of the islands in which they serve
will keep the peace and protect lives and
properties American courts and American
schOOlhOuses will rear generation which
can appreciate the value Of liberty. which
does not mean license, but does mean law.
While the United states Is meeting The
destiny and fulfilling tho mission which God
has so mysteriously deVolVed upon H. the
American Congress win formulate laws and
organize governments for these new possess
sions which. while developing them viii pre-
vent any interference with the rights or The
position or the income of American labor
ON the contrary, these new possessions and
the foothold we have in them for the extern
sion OF our trade will open the markets of
the far East and the markets IN the s.anGs
to the products of our fields ana our fac-
tories. Abraham lincoln struck the key
note of American development when he said
that the civil war must be prosecuted until
the Mississippi river runs unveXed TO the
sea- He saw that while the United States
was the greatest market within itself Of the
world the surplus OF our production must
become so great that 70 prevent suffocation
we must seek and hnd the countries and the
peoples which would need the products OF
Whom the echoes OF the guns Of the
American navy and the American army
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