The evening times., 1900-05-30

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Eeu their day and generation. Their
| death was a ministry for good. For ev-
! cry loyal form that fell beneath the blood
red stroke OF battle a hundred blessings
rose in shapes of fraternity, charity: and
| loyalty to walk the world and bless It.;
and every tear that sorrow cropped upon
the graves of the dead shed a sweet bene-
| diction upon the living. This is the lesson
! OF the past; and it teaches not to be af-
frighted at the seeming magnitude Of diff
! hcu1ties that loom in the twilight future.
] Patriots do not stop to take the dimensions
of dangers with calculating exactness when
| duty and country command
The initial movement against the Span
! ish power in Cuba was inspired by the
| grandest purpose that ever moved a ma
/ tion to arms We struck the blow in the
/ name of liberty. justice, and humanity;
and IL cannot fail TO be regarded in the
| dispassionate judgment of mankind as one
J OF the few totally disinterested. stainless.
and wholly yirtuous acts recorded in hu-
man history II sounded like rhapsody.
but 1t was not, when Edward Everett Hale
declared that in one hundred days God
had set forward the civilization of the
world one hundred years.
That events under a higher guidance
than our own carried US to point we did
not see from the beginning does cot lessen
our responsibility. 1t is characteristic Of
Important enterprises to lead to results not
contemplated in the initial steps. War
never leaves nation where IL finds it. l
cherish the hope expressed by another that
a providential hand gloved IN the smoke
OF battle, is leading us out OF our isolation
on to moral elevation where We can see
more clearly the pointing Of the finger Of
duty and destiny. and from which wider
outlook Will open a view Of the way we
are 20 go as the eyangeI Of liberty. the
messenger of civilization and hope to the
inhabitants OF our insulsr possessions
Now, what are the ethical requirements
OF the situation with which every patriotic
consideration comedies? Plainly. to hold
the title. sovereignty. and control Of our
: new possessions IN trust for civilization
and discharge the duties which dominion
and responsibility impose; TO give the Reo-
pie the largest liberty and the freest gov
ernment their condition will admit Of; to
make conditions as favorable as possible
for the growth Of intelligence. integrity,
and honest living. and teach them self
control obedience TO law and the princi-
pies of elf-government
In the performance of these duties and
the fulhllment of these obligations the na-
tional honor is involved. The eyes Of the
world are upon US and for the character
OF our conduct We must answer to the de-
liberate judgment OF enlightened Christen-
dom.
The Greater Washington
When I contemplate the supremacy OF
that lofty standard of patriotism which
viii guide our footsteps in the sure path
way TO national duty and honor a vision
OF iueffable splendOr bursts upon my imag-
inatiOn. / see this Republic in the van
guard of the world. standing distinctly for
humanity, liberty. justice. and progress.
the essential principles of Western civil
iZatiOn. advancing in harmony with that
prOvidentiaI order by which all races are
at last 10 come under a higher 50 cial
regime. / see the extension Of our Ian
guage, our literature. our laws our insti
lutiOns. and our commerce. over the vast
spaces Of the earth and the Islands Of the
sea ! see the greater America welding
with a just and benevolent hand her great
supremacy. mistress Of the sea. holding
the sceptre Of commercial and financial
empire. l see the realization Of the dream
Of patriots and the aspiration OF statesm n,
that our country, through its social po-
htical. and commercial influence should
become the means OF difusIng civilization
among the backward peoples in the oceanic
spaces 10 the west OF Us as well as those
on the shores Of Asia l see a people
meeting their measureless responsibilities,
following the pointing Of the finger Of duty
and destiny with a profound sense Of their
obligation TO those ethical principles which
constitute that righteousness which eXaits
nations, never forgetting that man is
more than nature. that wisdom is more
than glory. that virtue is more than DO
mtniOn OF the sea. and that Justice IS the
supreme good.
i see American valor COmmenOrated in
a magnificent. monumental memorial
bridge connecting the Capital with beauti
ful. COnseCTated Arlington, the nations
Walhalla. I see our Capital City the in
tellectUal and educational as well as the
political centre OF a continent. embOdytng
in her public edifces the nOblest intel
lectual and patriotic conception OF Ameri-
can art and architecture. 1 see her na-
tiCuaI galleries Of history and art he- in
sti Utions Of law. medicine, and theology.
her temples Of science. surprising in the
amplitude Of their resources for knowledge
any the world holds elsewhere l see her
National Museum, TivaliDg il architectural
splendOr its Roman prototype; l see Nsr
Executive Mansion, commensurate with TIE
rank and dignity OF the Republic, crown
ing her Paiatine hill and surprising in
artistic excellence the palace OF the
Caesars, all conceived and executed By
American intelligence and patriOtisC IS a
memorial of American progress in the nine
teenth century.
I see a people who venerate and emu
late the example of the heroic patriotism
Of their history, who every year pay hozn-
age, as We do today, TO the memory Of
their martyrs who did their duty and &c
cepted death; a people who so love their
country for which those martyrs died that
the common prayer ascending from every
heart and hearth and home in all the land
is. Dear country mine; mayst thou be,
m. land, noble and pure as thou art free
and strong; SO shalt thou lift 3 light for
all the world and for all time
Commander SIaybarGh's Tribute.
Commander Slaybaugh's address was
brief. but the veteran spoke with much
feeling He said:
To-day a nation renders homage to its
soldier dead. The scenes before US are
being enacted in every village and hamlet
and on every hillside, and in every valley
Of this broad land. The graves of the more
than 1900 coo of the Union dead Of our
great civil strife augmented by those 50
recently made in humanitys cause, are
being strewn with the offerings Of a CRATE
ful and appreciative people The day is
sacred TO the memory of those who in the
strength and vigOT of their youthful man
hood rescued our beloved country from the
hands of the destroyer. They are the men
who eliminated from the mind of all, all
idea of a confederacy Of States, cemented
with their blood the Union into a compact
inseparable whole, and settled for all time
the question whether this nation should
endure.
Not alone. nor chiefly, on account of
their bravery, are their deeds smbalmed in