The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-12

horne themselves well and added luster
to our States reputation for forensic
eloquence. 1t now seems TO be settled
that the policy of the administration
win not be sustained and the FiliDnos
will not be robbed of their country. Mr..
Mckinley will have to go back to his
original declaration, that forcible an
nexation would be criminal aggression"
Our twenty millions are gone where the
woodbine twineth and all we have left
for consolation is the glory of the Manila
victory. 1t may be worth that, provided
we can settle up things arI establish
permanent peace. 7s,;ace is what
our people want. If edward Atkip-
sons utterances even approximate the
true situation, we are lin bad condi-
ton to carry on any more war. He is
of great, cons ervative statesman and is
always careful about his facts. A fresh
regiment every month to take the places
of the troops who die in hospitals from
malarial and venereal diseases. just
think of it. No. we are not going to
do it. / heard an expansionist say yes
,terday that the Anglo-Saxon race must
rule the world because it was manifest
destiny. Who are the Anglo-Saxons, or
the English-speaking race as they are
now called? My reading tells me that
IDpre IS no SuCH race. 1UPEe OliCc Was
hut it has been lost by emigration and
immigration and amalgamation. 1t came
originally from north Germany, when
the Saxons conquered England, and is
more Teutonic than English. 1t has
not preserved its blood nor its language,
as many other nations have done. The
Russians and Prussians and French and
Scotch and Irish and Jews are to-day
more readily distinguished than the
Anglo-Saxon.
Their purity as a race is gone. es-
pecially in these United States, where
the blood of our forefathers has been
crossed and recrossed until north OF the
line not one man in ten can locate his
paternal and maternal ancestry. And
even down South this corruption of blood
is going on. Who am IL cross OF
English. Irish and Scotch. Who is my
wife? A cross of English and Low
Dutch Reader, who are you? But the
preachers say we all speak English and
that settles our destiny under God to
Christianize the world. Well, Calvin
didn't speak it. nor Luther, nor John
Knox. The Roman Catholics of this
country speak it, but our Protestant
preachers who are pleading for more
missionary grounu do not recognize
them as fit for missionary work.
Verify, when / think Of trying to sub
jugate the Philippines to please the
rrea ohers, / am disguised and am re-
s~soaed of that Scripture which satin,
THE zeal of mine house hath eaten
me up and of what Paul said, They
have zeal of God, but not according
to knowledge" The Lord does not ia
yor an unjust war. He may let it go
on. lust as He hardened the heart of
Pharaoh that the plaques might come
to punish him, but it is blasphemy to
saw that the Lord is behind this criminal
aggression. Might as well say He was
behind Napoleon in making widows and
orphans Of a million of people | tell
you. my brethren. if the scriptures be
true there is an evil spirit called Satan.
and he is still going to and fro upon
the earth and walking up and down in
it. For reasons we know not. he was not
DESTROYED when he fell and is still per-
mitted to tempt mankind from ALLEGIANCE
to the Creator. This is not only taught
in the scriptures, but the greatest OF
the heather philosophers, such as Cyrus
the Great, and Socrates. use the same
langrage as did Paul. when he said.
EVIL is present with me. That l would
not do that do II
CYRUS said II am ever conscious Of the
inclining me to evil and the other to
good Satan is a spiritual being of great
power and assurance. or the Lord wonid
not have held converse with him at Jobs
feast. nor would Michael the archangel
had a contention with him about the
body of Moses; nor would the Saviour
have been led away to the top of
mountain by him and listened to his
rersuasions. heard good man say
that Satan was very much of a gentle
man in his way and had most fascinating
manners.
But I did not start to preach SER
mon. My thoughts ruminated that way,
and I reckon that every man and woman
has had the same consciousness of evil
that Paul and Cyrus had. The devil is
not dead, and war is his revival, his big
camp-meeting. During its existence lie
catches men by the thousand-young
men who behaved well at home, where
they were under good influences, are
turned into demons and brutes. This late
Spanish war has been horrible exhibit
ton of human deprayity, both among
officers and men. The conduct of most
of them is a stencil on the page of
American history, and the country will
never recover from the debasement of
the soldiers who were in it. Courage in
battle is always to be admired. but not
that brutal courage which bulldog has,
courage without patriotic emotions or
any other emotions except to kill some
body. That is the reason why | have
no high regard for the soldiers profess
sion.
The chief end and aim of profess
sional soldier is TO fight and be promoted.
don't allude to privates, for they are
hirelings. Neither do ] allnde to such
noble men as Lee and Longstreet and
the two Johnstons and Wheeler, but
with very few exceptions the officers
of the late war were vain, selfish and
corrupt. The country has no respect for
them. Let them quarrel No doubt
they are all telling the truth on each
other. The first commandment says:
"The sins of the father shall be visited
upon his children" but it nowhere says:
II will visit the sins of the officers upon
the men, OF course. there are some
honorable young men among the privates.
and / have talked with some of them
since their return from Cuba. and they
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