El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-23

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There were Aguinaldos then in New
Mexico They rose up one night and
za,,t our civil and military officials to
the sword They shed American blood
and tore down our flag. What did
President Polk do? Did he order our
flag hauled down. declare the independ-
ence of the insurgents, and proclaim
a protectorate? Not bit of this. He
Sent Gen. Sterling Price. our own Ster-
ling Price. with whom we had A run
ming acquaintance" during our late
unpleasantneSS." who. with character
istic energy and determination. put our
Tag back; and our soldiers so fearfully
avenged our dead. in the slaughter OF
the innocent Filipinos." that reso-
luton was put through at the instance
Of some sentimental cranks just as was
attempted recently in congress in be
half of the Filipinos. inquirinS OF
President Polk how many of the poor
Mexicans Price killed. etc, and Polk
never did tell. We had lot of maud
lin. bookish impracticals in the coun-
try then. as now. who seemed to think
that all the shooting and killing ought
to have been monopoliZed by the IN
NkIrgents. and the only response our
Government should have made to in
surgent bullets was a proclamation
containing the declaration of Ameri-
can independence.
For over fifty years we have held
New Mexico and Arizona in territorial
bjection. because. in the judgment OF
Congress. which is the sole judge. their
innaDuants are deemed unit deposit
taries of che responsibilities of state
hood.
President Andrew Johnson saw the
opportunity for a mere plttance to
Sequire from Russia a vast territory
lying by the waters of the sea, of
" Zal Gai
States senate: six months of the year
is winter. and the other six months is
Id cold Yet il has proved to be of
incalculable value, rich in minerals
and productive of millions of sealskins.
never heard of any vote being taken
70 there TO get the consent of the gov
armed
For centuries islands lying near our
southern door were owned and bruted
over by the most rotten and implac-
able despotism of the nineteenth CEN
fury The cutlery of her people went
up to heaven for deliverance, and fell
upon the ear of the liberty loving peo-
pie of America
Nothing since our own internecine
Var so stirred to its mighty depths
the war spirit of our peace-loving peo-
pie For a lime it wiped out all sec
tional feeling in the nation. There
was but one heart-the deep-toned SEN
iiHltHt OI HdliOHdt pTlue. WIFI NO NV
airy but as to who could best do and
noblest die. Our young men from
aeIaine to Texas. from North Carolina
70 the Golden Gate. the rich and the
poor. the cowboy and the dude" the
bog from the city and from the corn
field. sprang like gladiators into the
arena of battle. and on the ever
memorable heights of Santiago showed
spain and the world what q fighting
-Seople we are
There was but one flag over them
and they showed that they had no
higher ambition than that the star
spaneled banner might be their last
winding sheet They struck blow for
human liberty that made the Spanish
capitol at Madrid tremble to its very
foundation.
a part of orr navy was at far-off
Hong Kong. With an eagles eye our
president. and his secretary of the
navy. saw the emergent opportunity
to strike the enemy in a vulnerable
and vital spot AS in all great national
crises. God and fortune seemed to have |
raised up the right man at the right /
time George Dewey was in command
of our untried ships in the Asiatic wa /
ASerS. with courage as sublime as IL 7
was wisely directed, he drove his grim
war dogs into the jaws of Manila bay.
and within a few hours Spain had the
largest submarine navy of any power
in the world. OH How our American
hearts swelIed with patriotic pride
when the news of the daring exploit !
flashed over the waters. From that !
hour he revolutionized the opinion of I
the Old World powers as to our ma
tional greatness and prestige f Plur-
Sibus Unum swelled into Ne Plus u
ira.
Ito Be Concluded Tomorrow