The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-27
BISHOP M'CABE HEARD
HIS LECTURE ON "BRIGHT SIDE OF
LIFE IN LIBBY PRISON"
A Large and Enthusiastic Audience
mt CenfraI-Ayenue Church
Governor There.

Bishop McCabe delivered his lecture on
the Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison
last night at Central-avenue NJ E. Church
to one OF the largest and most appreciative
audiences ever assembled in the church.
Those who had heard the lecture before
said it was better than ever.
The meeting was presided over by Gov
ernor Mount, who introduced the bishop to
the audience rs one OF Americas greatest
ministers and soldiers. He said that Indi-
ana could appreciate a soldier. for she had
given as many brave soldiers to the de-
Tense Of the country as any other State in
the Union. He spoke of the monument that
had been erected to the memory of Indi-
ana's soldiers and sailors, and said 1t was
one OF the finest memorial tributes ever
paid to the soldiers Of this country. and
that Indiana had also the proud distinction
of being the first State of the North to re-
turn captured Confederate flags. At the
conclusion Of his remarks he paid a glow
ing tribute to the nfework of Bishop Nc
Cabe as a minister and soldier.
When Bishop McCabe was introduced the
whole audience arose and greeted him with
waving handkerchiefs. After thanking the
audience for the hearty reception accorded
him the bishop said: 81 have been thinking
of late of the difference between our last
two wars-the war of the rebellion and the
war with Spain. When we fought our own
countrymen in the great civil war we were
poor. 1t was said there was not a Jew in
all Europe that would loan the United
States dollar. In the last war Congress
voted the President $500 600, 900, and ii hard
ly made dent in our treasury.
ALIKE IN OTHER RESPECTS.
"But while our financial circumstances
were so different In the two wars, in an
other respects both wars were alike. The
boys who went out to fight in the war with
Spain were just as courageous those
who fought in the sixties. have spoken
of the difference in our financial condition,
in these few short years? Was it the
farmers who represent the great agricul-
tural districts of this country? Partly,
Was 1t the bankers? Partly. Was it our
great commerce? Partly. Was 1t our law
ness men? Partly. But it was the
boys of the civil war who kissed their
wives and went out to fight for the Union
at S13 month who saved this Union for
I'd dhQ iiiduc IL WHdt IL 10 tO-udy. Anu I
feel tonight that they can never be suffici-
emily paid for il. 1 am in favor of giving
every old soldier a pension big enough to
feed him on roast beef the rest Of his
days."
The bishop said he went to war In the
finest regiment in the service. Indiana had
fine soldiers, but there were none that ex-
celled the One-hundred- and-twenty
second OHIO, of which he had the honor To
be chaplain. After telling of numerous
battles in which the regiment was en-
gagged and of how the regiment was de-
pleted of more than half of its men. the
bishop compared our soldiers with those
of other countries. Said he: Look at the
war going on in Africa; why we lost two.
thirds as many men in one battle as they
have lost in all the battles fought since
the commencement of the war If we hac
had lis of our good old Hundred-and
twenty-second at the pass at 1hermo
pylae, they would have defied all the
Turks In the world. The more / compare
our soldiers with those of other countries
| the prouder l am of them In comparing
| the guns of the last war with those of the
civil war the bishop said: They are get
| ting bigger and bigger. 1 am glad of IL
| for / believe the day will come when wal
will kill ITSELF"