Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-24
WHO WILL HAUL DOWN THE
FLAG ~

FLAG ~
Extracts from remarks Of Hon ]. c.
Isibley. Of Pennsylvania. in Daily Com
sresslonal Record, February I, 1900.
Shall we keep the Philippine archi-
pelago and Porto Rico? Every foot!
No nation on the globe has higher
rights or better title to q rod OF soil.
We hold by double claim the right
OF conquest and the right of purchase.
My belief Is that where once our ban-
sner's shadow has fallen, there viii SUR
svive q race of freemen. And should
hold Cuba until stability, order, the 1
protection OF life, property and good
government were assured.
And again echo the presidents
query: Who would haul down the
saag?" Who planted 1T there? What
cabinet council? What warrior? What
statesman? What senator or represent
stativet? What body of men framed any
plan of conquest? The cries OF suffer-
ing humanity, ground down beneath
ears and we stopped our ears. Their
groans we heard, hut we answered not.
We sawthem stripped and wounded on
and Levite, passed by on the other
side. Not unheard at the throne OF
heaven were those groans and prayers.
In order to awaken us from our tor
por and almost criminal Indifference
the Almighty permitted the enemies of
His wrath to hurtle their thunderbolts
under the bows OF the Maine. lying
peacefully at anchor in Havana har-S
nor most daring warrior had even con-
templated the possibility Of gain,
growth or greatness TO US as nation
to come out of the war of which the
blowing up of the Maine was the first
declaration.
These lands and people, unworthily
ruled, were. in the wisdom of the AZ
mighty, TO pass from the house Of Saul
to that of David. God and the valor OF
American arms gave us this territory.
not because we are a nation altogether
free, altogether pure and blameless, but
because, working thru human .nstru-
lmentalities, He has given it to the bold
est, freest, most progressive, most en-
frightened and most Christian Of all the
nations of the present age.
Sir, am an optimist. My belief is
that on this continent God has willed
to plant a people who shall carry the
arts of peace and story Of the cross to
the nations of the earth. You deprecate
WAR not more than myself: but. sir.
under certain conditions war Is to the
body polite what the ploWshare in the
lsmellowed mold is to the husbandlnan.
| Noxious growths and thorns and briars
must be exterminated and uprooted
THAT the fairer fruitage may develop.
Within the bosom of our soil the AL
lamighty has stored, thru countless ages,
the treasures of mineral. From her
breast, clothed with forests and golden
with ripening harvests. He will house
| and feed race which will hasten the
dawn of that morning when thru a
cycles war shall be banishsd.
the swords, beat into plowshares and
1.-the spears into pruning hooks, and men.
tsuntil time shall be no more shall look
Into the eyes of8each other and recog-
nize the bonds of brotherhood. We go
4 forth as nation, not TO teach the doc
| trine Of the survival of the tittest, but
A to make men fit to survive.
Do gentlemen recognize the fact that
lin one hundred years from today this
will be nation of 4oO,00o000 souls
4 With such soil, with such material re-
sources and with such a people. who
! would haul down the flag from enlarged
\ boundaries? Who would environ and
stifie between two oceans the energies
Of such civilization? Who would
A pent up it's powers within the confines
Il of a continent?