The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
FREDERICK lands SPEAKS ON EN-
DIANA AND THE NATION"
Eleventh District COngressman-Elect
Wins Warm CONNIE ndatiOn at the
Quill Club Dinner.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Frederfck Lands.
congressman-elect from the Eleventh dis
trict of Indiana, responded TO the toast
Indiana and the Nation" at the dinner
given by the Quill Club at the Hotel Savoy
tonight. Mr.. Lands accorded a
hearty reception and he was frequently
applauded during his address. Some Of his
auditors grew enthusiastic over his elo-
quence and coupled his name with that or
Charles B. Lands, his brother. and the
eloquent Senator Beverage. Mr.. Lands
reviewed the struggles of the pioneers or
Indiana, and told how they had carved
one of the greatest States OF the Union
great in all things-out of a wilderness.
In conclusion he said:
Indiana is proud of New York and Chi
cago and Seattle and very single inch OF
soil beneath our flag. She can ask but few
such benefactions. but she wants every
cannot be invaded. but she wants powerful
Notifications from Maine TO Florida TO pro-
tect our brothers on the seaboard. Our
are national IL the wheat crop OF Dakota
be great We are glad. IL the floods over
whelm Mississippi we are sad. and we aid
Whenever q battleship is christened In
honor of another State we rejoice. and In
diana wants this Nation to have a navy
that can defend her majesty against any
crisis that may come History and geogra-
ply alike admonish us of this need Mon
arches must have armies and armies must
have taxpayers and taxpayers must nave
their minds diverted from the ever-grow-
ing spirit of democracy, and the only way
10 do this is 10 wage foreign war. Africa
will soon be exhausted Asia Will follow
| toward South America
THE Monroe doctrine, honestly and sane
| ~ interpreted, was our gospel yesterday;
| ii is our gospel to-day, and IL must be
| our gospel forever and IL needs the sane
| ton OF the thirteen-inch gun The sea is
the battlefield OF the future a ougle VIII
| make a battleship. Indiana has a mighty
battleship which bore her name through
| the battle of Santiago. and she wishes as
| a nucleus a similar ship for every State
| We must and will have a navy which,
| throughout the years 10 come can do what
! Jones and Perry and Farragut and Dewey
| and Sampson and Schley have done In the
Indiana loves this Nation as a child
loves its mother, and with the other chill
heads with Georgia when Henry Grady
died: we mourned with Maine for Thomas
b. Reed with the Nation We deplored the
tragic fate OF the great Mckinley; one by
one the States passed In solemn procession
to heap the grave OF our Harrison with
tributes and to-day with every other COM
monwealth we are thrilled by the manli-
ness and craftsmanship OF that son OF New
| York, Theodore Roosevelt.
up with the broad. down with the mar
| row: UP with the mutual. down with the
selfish. Each State is a stone In the ma
| tional temple, each State is star I'm our
| armament. each State Is a sister I'm the
| happiest faraily the world ever saw, and
now In this, the golden dawn OF this GEN.
fury. when opportunity begs for men. when
| invention emancipates and discovery be-
| wilders. when science sits close by the
stars. when the white-robed angels OF love
| kneel by all the graves all the fields
| OF war; in this the brightest hour OF time 8
long weary day. Indiana lifts her glass 70
| the States and speaks this sentiment.
The ideal patriot, proud OF his city.
prouder OF his State, but proudest OF hia
country. may she ever remain the BEN
Hur'' in the race or nations