The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-05
FOUR MILES
OF CHEERING
Continued From First Page.)

the Sumpters gun awakened our people
and America until then the fncarnate gen
ius of peace, sprang to her feet with
sword and with shield, a heimeted queen
among nations When the thunder of
guns called the nations children they
sprang forward 10 do the mighty deeds
which if left undone. would have meant
that the words to which we have listened
TO today would have rung as meaningless
platitudes. (Applause)
Those We're the two great epochs in
the nations history, the epoch of the
founding of the union and the epoch OF
its preservation; the epoch of Abraham
Lincoln. Cloud applause and cheers.)
Those two generations had the greatest
tasks to do, but each generation has its
tasks and woe to that generation which
regards the deeds of the mighty men of
the past as an excuse for this falling
TO do in it's turn the work that it finds
ready at hand (Applause) The great
deeds Of those who have gone before US
must ever serve not as a reason for in
action on our part: but as the keenest
of spurs 10 drive US forward on the path
Of national greatness and justice. Gap
plause.) We have had our tasks to do
in the last four years, or other. we have
had. as every generation must have.
many tasks TO do. tasks that affect US
abroad and one of those tasks being
done as 1t has been, has signaled out
entry into a larger world. CApplause)
And II IS most appropriate that on this
Fourth Of July, this anniversary OF the
birth of the nation, It should be our
good torture 10 have promulgated the
declaration establishing peace in the
Philippines and the acknowledgment -
the army OF praise so richly due our fell
low Americans who wear the uniform OF
the United States for all that they have
done IN the tropic islands during the past
four years. Continued applause an1
cheersl
I'VE said Cuba should become free |
republic and we have kept our word
(Applause) To have turned Cuba over |
TO the hands Of its own people immed- |
lately after the withdrawal Of the Span |
ish fag would have meant ruin and chaos l
We established q government IN the Isl |
and: we established peace and order: we 4
began TO provide for the paying OF the 4
Cuban troops who had fought against /
the misrule Of their oppressors: we insti- /
tuted a public school system. modelled /
upon that which has been a potential fac 4
tor 81 our own national progress. Gap
plauseD We cleaned the cities in Cuba
for the first time in their history (Ap-
plause0 We changed them from being
the most unhealthy 10 being among the
healthiest cities of the civilized world
We instituted a system of order and jus
tice 20 succeed one ot irresponsible and
arbitrary despotism. That any man. rich
OF poor. weak or strong. could appeal .
courts snd know that he would receive
his rights.
And when n the fullnesz q time We
felt that they could walk along We
turned over the government g them and (
row The Seautiful queen Of The Antilles
has started OF her course as free re-
public among tie nations of the earth.
,Applanse1
But there Is one thinE-our policy with
-uba has not yet met with its entire
'-Suon. X win meet with r. CAp7Iarsa}
The course q the few years has r1ads
more evident than ever before that ihis
,atlon must II time come to have Pc