Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-18
Country Will Never be
the Same Again"
HAS Passed the Old Lines,
For Veal or Woe"

New York, Jan. 17.-(Spl.)-Grover
Cleveland, ex-President of the United
States, made his first appearance at
public function in New York, In
many years, when he appeared at the
dinner of the Holland society at The
Waldorf-Astoria last night.
He embraced the opportunity to
speak upon the attitude of the United
States to the Philippines and in the
course Of remarkable speech, largely
devoted to that subject, he said:
"Our country will never be the same
again. For veal or woe we have
irrevocably passed beyond the old
lines"
"Dutch Dikes and DAMS" was as
signed to Mr.. Cleveland as his topic
as the principal speaker but he was
told by tho president, the Rev. Henry
Van Dyke, that he could stray from
the text as much as he liked. That
poetic license allowed the ex-President
to unburden his mind about the Phil
ippines and the Boer war. Mr. Clevc-
land, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland,
came over from Princeton during the
afternoon and was the most prominent
of all the assemblage of 400 dinners In
the grand ball room of The Waldorf
Astoria.
Mr., Cleveland said:
"If England succeeds in her attempt
in South Africa she will but add an
other to her list of similar acquisitions;
n brave people subjugated and on ac,
count of our engagement In similar
venture In another quarter they will
miss the expressions of American
sympathy which we are accustomed
to extend to those who struggle fol
independence. On the other hand
with success in our subjugatng effort
new untried and exceedingly peril
GUS situation will be forced upon us
We can conquer the Philippines, ant
after conquering them can probably
govern them. 1t Is In, the strain upor
our institutions, the decentralization o.
our people, the evasion of our constitu
tional limitations and the perversioI
of our national mission that our dan
ger lies: AS distinguished Bisb ,l
has said: The question is not wha
we shall do with the Philippines, bu
what the Philippines will do to us
"Our country will never be the same
again. For veal or woe we have al
ready passed beyond the old lines.
1.-THE republic will in some sort b'
saved. Shall 1t be only In name ant
semblance, with fair external appear
ance with the germs of decay fas
tened upon it's vitals; or shall 1t, though
changed, still survive in such vigo
and strength as to remain the hope nnt
pride OF free Americans?
"The problem is momentous one
Its solution depends upon the eXten
to which the old patriotism and goot
sense of our countrymen can be res
cued from impending danger. Thu
there are sober days for thoughtfulnes
days for preaching--days for ser
monizlng. If we are to be saved iron
disaster, 1t must be through the cul
tlvation and enforcement of that sor
OF conservatism that should find con
genial home in the Holland society
In the midst Of reckless tumult an
| In the confused rage Of national gree
and bloodiness, this conservatism
should de1antly stand forth and d.
mand hearing.
"i.et 1t be proclaimed that America
freedom and popular rule cannot PEI
ish except through the madness G
those who have them In their keepin.
and by the blood and sacrifices Of ou
fathers, by the lofty achievements {
the free institutions they establishe,
by our glorious victory of peace, an
10y our reliance on the promises {
God