The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-19

pause, and the nation lifted its great
silk battle flags from the capitoi AT
w washington and cxleRfor volunteers to
wipe the empire Of. Spain from the man
OF the Western woTsd
The war lasted bot hundred DAYS. but
in those hundred days was packed the
harvest Of centuries.
War is always the crisis that flashes
the searchlight into the souls Of men ana
nations, revealing their Unknown straneth
and wea kness, and the changes that have
peace. W
In these hundred days statesmen who
were grants suddenly shriveled into mig
mics mics and disappeaQed from the nations
known became leadsrss of the renubIic
and won immortal fame
We were afraid that our nation lacked
unity. The world said we were a roh Of
money grubbers, and had lost our CRASH
OF principle. The president called for
2l5,CG0 men to die for their flag and tSa
| next morning 100000 We're struggling for
places in the line.
| We feared that religion might threaten
the future with its bitter feud between
| the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in
a great crisis. We saw our Catho q reg
country above them to fight an army that
! mad been blessed by the pope. The f1ap
nad become the common symbol of eter-
t ~ Justice, ana the nation the organ
through which all creeds sough1 for
| righteousness.
| We feared the gulf between the rich and
| the poor mad become impossible and we
| saw the mllllonaire's son take his place
IN the ranks with the workingnan Tha
hfst soldier that fell before Santiago
| with a Spanish bullet in his breast was
| al only son from palaIiai home in New
orh, ana by his size lay a cowboy from
the west and a plowboy from the South.
cectlonaHsm and dlsunity had been the
t,io9o terrible realities in our national
history. The Union was saved by SAL
| rlhce OF blood that appalled, rhe wor1d
ana sun millions feared that the SCUM
tnLShI De false to her pliShted honor at
4a opp The ghost of secession
mace and unmade the men and measures
or a generation. - 70
Ihen came the trumpet call that put the
SCUM SCUM 70 the test of fire and blood. The
lle llfSt time in our history the dream, n
Chion living fact. There was no North
no south, but from the James to the Rio
r,ishra the chlldren of the Confederacy
rusEed with eager faces to defend the
nag their fathers had once fought
Aiu God reserved for the south land
OF ashes and tombs and tears, the pain
ana glory Of the first offering OF life nnon
the altar OF the new nation Orr tirst
ana only officer who fell dead on the
geek OF a warship with the flag above
nm nm was the son Of Confederate soldier.
Inc gallant youngster who stood on the
prldge OF the Merrimac and set . new
standard Of Anglo-Saxon daring was The
son Oh a Confederate soldier
N-ttSi0 aOuhu u the guns, and all
was over. The yellow flag Of Snain Iit
WIN the sunset SpienGor of a world en-
pre- faded from tie sky of the West.
a Few naval power had arisen to dis
turb the creams Of statesmen The Ore
soh that fierce leyiAthan of hammered
steer, mad made her mark upon the p ohe
IN a long black trail Of smoke ana Iih
pom OF foam she had circled the Garth
without pause for breath The thunder
OF hef bps of steel over the shattered
nq q OF a Eufopean-navy proclaimed the
aayent Of giant democracy.
re VINO dreamed this monster Of etaeI
teIt her heart beat, saw her rush through
Ioahllhg seas to victory, before the NIX
OF miner had struck the ore for ne.
tbs from a mountain side was a chi n
OF me Onfederacy-that Confectionery
~ncSe desperate genius had sent the Ala
oama spinning around the globe i'm a
Whlrlwind Of fire.
america. united at last awoke to the
consciousness of her fesistless power
ana most marvellous of all thie hrr
dred days of war had reunited the Anglo
saxon race. This sudden union Of the
bhgl!sh-Spcaking peoples disturbed tI1a
equllibnuin Of the world, and confirmed
the AnS1o-SaXon in his title to the nriro
acy of racial sway. '-' - III
me book is destined to be widely and
perhaps, bitterly discussed 1t is no sur
prise that $1,000 copies have already been
sold. Whatever the readers personal
views may be, 1t is eminently fair and
Just that the South, for the first time
since the war, should have its posi1Ion
fairly and adequately stated by one IF
It's own people. And, on the whole If Ia
fortunate that Mr.. Dixon has been the
man to perform this needed task