The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-31

In the lecture on The Day we Ccle-
brate" by Henry Austin Adams, the
gifted editor of Donahoe's Magazine,
at st. Thomas college hall last night,
Scranton heard it's first anti-expansion
speech; and a more emphatic one 1t
could hardly wish for 1t was sur
prisingly new i'm the way of Memorial
day addresses and It was also most
brilliant, all present would agree,
though the sentiments expressed
might not find approval in all the
hearers.
lie contended that the war Is over
| reaching its primal purpose and that
that over-rcaching is prompted by
| motives in direct conflict with not only
| Christian teaching, but the very fund
Gmental principles of our nation.
TaHinR his audience in fancy to the
| top Of Lookout mountain, where he
| stood ,na week ago, he carried them
| cloqueGtly and with most picturesque
| thought through the terrific four
months conflict that soaked with blood
| the sod there and thereabouts, and
then pointing out the other fields and
conflicts most renowned in history, ask
| ed: what was this all for?" "It
was" he answered, that succeeding
| generations should have a larger life.
| If wa" is not for this. then war is
! hell it comes from hell and ends in
| hell"
THE FLAGS METAMORPHOSIS.
War, however. has new purpose
| with us. he argued. No longer is our
tlag banner of peace and opportunity
| for development of soul and intellect.
way of ACKNOWLEDGMENT that our war;
| ships are making for our merchant
men. This course continued in we will
| have national cemeteries like in Eng
| land, where are buried not liberators
hut soldiers who helped put down on
| the necks of the weak the iron heel
| IF tyranny.
Every American war till now has
| been for the establishment of the prin-
| ciple that all men are entitled to self
| government. At present we are sacri-
| iiCjng the precious blood of our sons
in beating into submission a people
whom we bought for 80 a head that
we might give them things that they
| d mt want.
| At Castle Garden we welcome the
stranger from every land and bid him
| become as ourselves. In the Philip
| pines we are forcing people to become
our dependents. We are filling thous-
ands of utterly unnecessary graves tC
| give the lie to what the G.. A. r. mar
fought tCl, to deny what the school or
the hilltop teaches and what the de-
claration of Independence declares. Ou
millionaire's club, the United States sen.
ate, only asks will ii help the com.
| merce of American" and being an.
swered i'm the affirmative says then, il
the name of God, grab it,"
TO THWART THE TEMPTER.
The lecture being under Catholic aus
pices, Mr. Adams directed a few word
tn those of that faith as to their dut,
as he saw 1t in this matter. The
should not remain silent. he said, a
this time when Uncle Sam is so serl
ously tempted, but cry out agains
countinS-room jugglery that means tn
curtailment of spiritual opportunity.
He told of the chamber of commerce
Of New York backing a movement t,
bring LOO young Cubans to the Unitet
states to be educated, that they Nigh
carry AmeriCanism back into thei
country. The agreement contained
proviSo that none of them should b
educated in Catholic schools, MI
Adams said, and the motive in this wa
the motive which was in no small par
responsible for the unjuStitlable wa
that is being waged today
Mr.. Adams did not find any particu
lar fault with the Cuban end of tn
war, but rather excused it. Uncle Sam
he said. was working with his hoe il