The Redwood gazette., 1900-07-11
JOhn Iunn Of ManKat0 WIS lstt-
inp with his sons ii this city dur


ton and you see the record y
growth and conservative progress
The conscience Of a nation which
had slumbered a decade, while thu
slave mart and chains made a mock
cry of our boasted liberty, awoke
Four years of wasted blood. anG
treasure wiped out that foul blo1
from our national character ano
made the stars and stripes the EN-
blem of the free. Note the result
Public sentiment which had heard
with deaf ear the appeal of helpless
bondmen in the past could not re
sist the pleading cry of outraged,
bleeding Cuba. Under the folds
of the flag, rebel and yankee, our
boys went forth like knights OF old
to the rescue of humanity.
THAT splendid victory at Manila
which crushed the naval power Of
naughty Spain; that gallant charge
of Roosevelt up the hill of Santiago
were but the echoes of Shiloh,
Lookout and Gettysburg We had
the right to carry freedom to the
isles of the Sea- because we had
first fought and conquered for lib
erty at home.
Just as the nation has strength
ened and grown in moral thought
so has her material progress been
startling. From the seaside the
nation has widened and spread;
scaling the Alleghanies; crossing
the plains and climbing the noun
tains, until mighty continent had
been spanned. And with every in
creasing stride of territory came
greater and more abounding liberty
of thought and action
"Can any of you doubt that the
Atlantic States has done much to
educate and civilize the west? Is
there any greater doubt that in turn
the west has broadened and liber-
allied the east?
Pausing at the seaside again, the
proud, exaltant spirit of the nation
heard the call Of duty and respond
ing to that call has planted the
starry flag in the islands over the
sea. Again note results: We have
an election at Havana as free and
orderly as the one in Detroit; we
see the Hawaiian sitting in a nation
al convention and responding to the
roll call which nominates a presi-
dent for the United States. Look
ing again we note amid the crumb-
ling of revolt in the Philippines,
schoolhouses crowded with anxious
pupils, for the first time introduc-
ing the little red schoolhouse
which always follows and flourishes
under the folds of that flag.
':Pull down the flag in the Phil
ippines? I say never! So long as
that flag is necessary to protect and
shelter the schoolhouse under it's
folds. This, Mr.. Chairman, is not
politics. It's patriotism.
''There are those who honestly
fear that we are entering upon evil
days; who believe that the nation
will be crushed under the weight
of the White Man Burden"
I have no quarrel with these; I
grant to them honesty of thought
and sincerity of purpose. But I
ask these to look upon the shocks,
perils, dangers of the past now
safelv DER. These but prove the
stability Of our institutions and the
fact that warts and wens, ever and
anon, may appear upon the body
polite, should cause no serious
alarm. The past is secure. and as
we advance, step by step, toward a
higher civilization, our vision wild
ems and we behold a future bright
and glowing with more wonderful
achievements, grander develope-
ments.
Upon the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel of the Vatican Michael Ange-
10, with marvellous skill, has wrought
in nine brilliant frescoes all the sig
nal events of the world S first thons-
and years. Mindful of the master
piece of the great Florentiae. our
government has caused to be paint