The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-31
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name OF our country as the heroes OF the
mighty past. All hail, soldiers of free
domi
Since you fCrled your tattered fags
since you broke ranks and after thirty
four years of peace your sons were called
20 arms to redress the wrongs of our IN
fortunate heighbors. Spain. with an IN
broken record of crime against the human
race, has been thrown from the western
hemisphere by the army and navy Of
our country. Never was a war so ably
and impartiauy conducted or so fruitful
Of good results to our country and SO
disastrous to the enemy. We have felt
no loss save In the few individual homes
OF our people. In few brief months we
destroyed the navy Of Spain and broke
her sceptre in the isles of her misrue
On this occasion we would not forget the
brave fellows who accomplished this with
such distipction 10 themselves We owe
than mich We laurel the graves of
those who died We make wreaths for the
orowS OF those who live Flowers for
Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee; flowers for
Mckinley and Shafter; flowers for Otis
and Lawton; flowers for Roosevelt, and
flowers from Arctic regions and from the
borders 70 Death Valley and from battle
Scared Cuba and sun kissed Luzon, and
from the board fields Of happy, prosper
Gus Kansas for Funston and the noble
Twentieth Kansas God bless the men
who are doing His will in the Philippines
To have turned them over to the wrang-
ling nations would. have meant interna-
tional stIifc and war and the dlsember-
nent Of tie islands. We were responsible
for the condition and. feeling that respon-
sibility. We nad nc right TO haul down TIE
flag when IL was at the zenith OF its
glory There was in that far off place
of the world an opportunity to extend our
sympathy for humanity and we had no
right to turn that opportunity over 10
other flags and other arms If left u
themselves, as some gentlemen suggest.
destruction and death would have been
their end. Upon every occasion they have
proven themselves incapable of self-gov-
ernment. They know no law. supersti-
ton is their guide and riot and ravage
their element. To have left them to
themselves would have been as cruel and
lives burning in mid sea when all our
boats were manned for the rescue. Whist
waiting for the peace treaty to be signed,
and whilst protecting our own property
and tire lives and property of other. that
arch field CO the seas who had on tTO
occasions sold his country for spanish
gold. turned loose his is;l5rant, relf-
America and encouraged them by prom
ises OF loot and burn and ravish st WILL
The American flag was there to protect
and protect it did. Viz DRY has followed
it everywhere and victory will follow it
until it haS an opportunity to marshal for
these benighted peoples the forces OF
civilization and carry with II educational
institutions and religious freedom and en-
kindle the spirit Of humanity and en-
throne liberty and morality and ultimately
establish self-government under its own
protectorate
But, gentlemen of the opposition tell US
there is difficulty in the way. Almost
every square mile OF our country has
been consecrated by heroic blood. Little
by little the borders have been extended
and The red man driven back II in the
Of life, as we study It, we find
that ease makes the strong man and na
tlon. by al means let US have II. But
If on the contrary. we find that ease has
never Graded a genius, has never builded
a city has never produced a great and
race. then let rs not seek II
for ourselves. but strip for the fray and
break steel with steel and overcome BY
the iron IN our blood.
The man who loves his home and pro- I
tects it. has all the sympathy Of my heart, /
but no man has a right to confne his 1
love and protection 20 his own home. Il !
he has. then the south was right and /
then the north was wrong in that great 1
struggle. 4 man must love his neigh 4
Dor as himself. He must i've beyond his /
own horizon and for others. II Is there .
.ore the duty % America and Americans /
to exercise their influence Tor unfortunate .
peoples. to give measureIess power and .
igAt to the weak and dsrkened nations o. I.
the earth. And now & the time 70 reckon 4
that we belong % q RAGS marked for I
destiny. The way IS clear We cannot
retreat This race the mishtiezt, the
strongest, the clesnest TIE world has