The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-03-07
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Take Their Love for 1t with
Them Wherever They Go.

They are obstructionists who de-
s;iair and who would destroy cont.
dchce in the ability of our people to
solve wisely and for civiliza Jon the
mighty problems resting upon them
The american people, intrenLnsl in
freedom at home, take thcii love
for il with them wherever The, go
and they reject as mistaken AID I'M
worthy the doctrine that we los, hr
own liberties Ivy securing the erdur-
ing foundations of liberty to hers.
Our institutions will not detertor;, 20
by extension nd our sense of Justice
will not abate under tropic SINS in
distant seas. AS heretofore. So here
after will the Gi,tion demonstrsi :. Is
fi1uess to administer any new estate
which events devolve upon it, and in
the fear of God viii take o. ,sion
by the hand and make the bounds
. freedom WI .,r YET. ii tlere ire
ihGsc among Us who would make oLr
way more difficult we must no. lie
.liahcartened. but the more earnestly
dedicate ourselves TO the task Ml.ich
we have rightly entered. Iii. p:ih
OF progress Is seldom Snoo II. New
things are oftrn found hard 10 do
Our fathers found them so. We find
them so. They are inconvenient.
The cost us something. But ara we
not made better for the effort and
sacrifice, and are not those we serve
lifted up and blessed?
Republics ENalt Freedom and Har-
mOny.
We will he consoled. too, with the
fact that opposition has confronted
every onward movement of the re-
public from its opening hour until
now. but without success. The re-
public has marched on and on and its
every step has exalted freedom and
humanity. We are undergoing the
same ordeal as did our predecessors
nearly century ago. We are follow
ing the course they blazed. They
triumphed. viii their successor .
falter and plead organic impotency
in the nation? Surely after 135 years
of achievement for mankind we viii
not now surrender our equality with
o1 her powers on matters fundamental
aud essential to nationality. With
no such purpose was the nation ere
ated. In no such spirit has it devel-
oped it's full and independent sov-
erelgrty. We adhere to the principle
OF equality among ourselves and by
no act of ours will we assign to our
selves a subordinate rank in the fam
| i'v of nations.
Events of th~ Past FOur Years.
Ny felIow-citizens. the public events
of the past foar years have gone in
to history. They are too near to
Justify recital. Some of them were
unforeseen. many of them Inomentous
Co. In,
| uenccs TO ourselves and our rela-
tons with the rest of the world. Ths
part which the United States bore
so h0norably in the thrilling scenes
in China. while new TO Americas
life. has been in harmony with its
true spirit and best traditions and
in dealing with the results its policy
will be that of moderation and fair
ness. t1 a
We face at this moment q most
important Question-that of the fu'
ture relations of the United States
and Cuba. With our near neighbort
we must remain close friends. The
declaration of the purposes of this
government in the resolution of April
90. 1895, must be made good. Ever
since the evacuation of the island
by the army of spain the executive
with all practicable speed has beer
assisting its people in the successive
steps necessary to the establishment
OF free and independent govern
ment. prepared to assume and per
form the obiient ntions of internationa
iaw which now rest upon the United
States under the treaty of Paris.
T-AselA4a0aa VIII Cuba.
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