The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-06

States was not world power. We had
not commanded attention in the navy. nor
had our armies commended with foe on
foreign soil. Our merchant marine had
dropped to a low ebb, and as great poten-
tial factor on land and on sea we were not
considered. Our internal trade and our
advance In arts and sciences and in the
industries and our reaching our for mar
kets began to command attention But
when the battle of Manila harbor was
fought. and San Juan Hill and Santiago,
by land and sea, felt the prowess OF our
arms, the world Suddenly awoke TO the
fact that we are world power, and as
such we must be reckoned with.
After outlining the questions arising from
our new position and new possessions, MI
Hogate took the broad ground that the
Constitution. does not necessarily extend, in
ali it's fullness. TO acquired territories. but
that it may be extended by congressional
enactment. Mr.. Hogate concluded as fol-
lows:
But there is another and a different
national expansion than the physical. 1t
comes quietly but with accelerating and
irresistible force. and is. after all. the
mainstay of the Nation. 1t is that eXpan-
sion in our love for the flag and all it rep
resents. Its stars and stripes are emblem
attic of all we are as nation. 1t is that
expansion of intellect and advanced ideas,
that expansion that discards old theories,
IL useless and rises to newer conceptions
and loftier purposes. That expansion that
cleaves its way through difficulties, and,
by sheer force of the best thoughts for the
race and to do the best for mankind. we
bring our Nation, with its education and
religions, its industries and Accommodations,
its men and women, up to higher levels.
That is the mission of the people of this
land, and the Republican party has been
the foremost factor I'm promoting the on
ward movement
LANDIS'S TRIBUTE TO "OLD GLORY"
Frederick Lands. Of Logansport. spoke
to the toast "Old Glory" In part he said:
can old man stood in the befry of In
dependence Hall, in Philadelphia. fHis
hands trembled with excitement. his eyes
cleaned with patriotic fire. Beneath. in
secret session, sat band Of statesmen.
They were the courage and the conscience
OF the colonies. Before them lay paper.
1t was the most terrible indictment of des-
potism ever fled by the human race in the
Court of Heaven. 1t was penned by a
Virginia farmer, and it is known to-day as
the Declaration of Independence. Passion
ately did those statesmen plead. Breath
less was the waiting multitude. At last,
about o'clock in the afternoon, the door
of the chamber opened, q voice whispered
1T is passed. that old in the belfry
sprang to his post and the heroic tones of
the liberty bell filled and thrilled the sky,
flags were unfurled, cannon shook the
earth, thousands cheered and sang, and
the American Republic came into the
world. That bell was made In England.
but its music was made in heaven. Ii rang
the dirge of regal wrong and the birth song
of liberty and joy. 1t plunged the fathers
into war-it plunged the thrones of Europe
into woe. The message of defiance was
borne across the hills. and upon returning
waves of air, from cold and bleak New
England, and from magnolia-b breathing
Carolina came the battle cries of glory. A
shaft of light fell upon the old arm chair
and age arose in freedoms armor, while to
the altar of devotion the continental
mother led her child"
Mr.. Lands touched on the expanding in
fiuence of the flag, the extension of its
beneficence to the negro, the celebration
of it's centenary in 1776, and the reunion of
the North and South under it I'm the Span
ish-American war. He closed by saying:
Old Glory never wronged the world
and never shall, and can be trusted now.
The spider did not weave it's folds. Prayer
and valor wove them through the fate and
fire, the trial and tempest of our peerless
past; and there is honor and there is up
rightness in every stitch and every star,
and wherever they may go blessings and
benedictions shall fall upon the human
race.
1t was after o'clock when the feast was
concluded. The crowd called for W. s.
Haggard. Frank B. Posey and Colonel
Dodge after the regular programme was
concluded. They each made a few re-
marks.