Arizona republican., 1907-07-04

the WOrlu! WnO VIII say no. The quick alert and tremendous energies of people, embodying as it does the liberty-loying. fearless, venturesome characteristics of all civilized c0un- tries, developed by opportunities never accorded another people. have been during that time almost wholly engag- ed in that conquest. It is neither hoped. wished nor expected that those energies shall grow lax. shall become feeble, shall cease in activity. They will be displayed in other conquests, either in peace or by war, or in peace and by war.
 WARS TO COME.
 The destiny of this people has not been fulfilled: this nation has not reached the perfection of it's mission unfinished. This nation was not born to die with its mission unfinished. If all the people of all the world are to be civilized. We cannot hope it to be done without decomposition of force to force. We should not be vain enough to think that We are the only factor in that great process; but we feel that we are an important one. and it is not within the minds of the American peo-
 
 ities involved in that high station even though 1t be fraught with the possibil ities of war.
 This great people Is too great to en- gage in an unjust war; it is too gen. erous .and too jealous of the rights of man to engage in one of mere aggran- dizement; but as it is a great. as it is a just, as it is generous, and as it is jealous of mems rights. it cannot and it will not hesitate at war if that be necessary to be and remain so And the necessity of war is not alone to be determined by our wish. Let us in- dulge in no fatuous hopes of the full fillment. of our high purposes without that clash of forces that finds it's man. Hesitation in war. Let us not, in striv- ing for the ideal ignore the real. We need not abandon our endeavors to reach the ideal. but it would be fatal for us not to be prepared to overcome the obstacles on the way: to meet force with force if force be opposed to our progress. We cannot consent to be- lieve that this nation is not so strong. so splendid, so rich and so happy as not to excite the envy the jealousy or even the cupidity of other nations. or that it is so weak as to win their con- tempt The American people will nev- CT falter in the discharge of its duty when that duty is made plain.
 THE CUBAN CONFLICT.
 For generations. by misrule and ra- pacious tyranny. with utter disregard for the rights of mankind. Spain op- pressed the people of Cuba. Degener- ate herself she sought to block the progress of civilization on this hemis- phere. On the very threshold of this great country we were daily subjected 10 the spectacle of the harshness of despotic rule, of government enforced without the consent of the governed. of a government that refused to rec ognize the equal rights of man and denying him those opportunities that the Creator intended that every man should have, those inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness. The civilized world protested, but to little or no purpose. The oppor- tunity seemed to be that of the United States, and that opportunity imposed duty-the duty to succor a, people struggling for their independence and their inalienable rights. We first sug- gested, then remonstrated; but it was fruitless. The methods of peace failed and were of no purpose. We then de- manded. and. upon refusal. we com- pelled by war the relinquishment by Spain of her hold upon Cuba
 Who has the hardihood to say that that war was not just: who to say that it was not righteous, It was a just war; 1t was a righteous war. and ev- cry soldier who participated in it is en- titled to our gratitude and to our high est esteem: We would be unjust and ungracious if We did not generously &C., cord ;he need due the patriotic.
 In 1898, at the first call of the pres- ident for troops to enforce this nations just and humane demands of Spain more than two hundred of our men of Arizona instantly responded. They were true men of Arizona. broadened as the vast expanse of our territory Is broadened; rugged in the virile attri- butes of manhood as are our rugged hills, jealous of and insistent upon their own rights; responsive to every eall of oppression or distress; glorying Nnd glorified by their own freedom: hating tyranny and contemptuous of fear.
 Rallying under the inspiriting lead ership of Theodore Roosevelt. they made famous not only the scenes at the hills of San Juan and Guasimas. but renowned forever the Rough Riders"
 "BUCkY" O'NEIlC.
 Amongst them who went from amongst you in this beautiful city of the mountains was he whom all were pleased to call "Bucky'' O'Neill-Cap- tain William O.. O'Neill. the type of Arizona manhood: strong. generous. brave. tender. adventurous. He loved justice; he hated tyranny and scorned meanness. I can best say of him that he was the ideal American soldier. the natural. spontaneous product of this great free. broad country.
 We are apt to measure the value of mems services to their country by the sacrifices they offer and they make. Life itself we deem the greatest sacri- flee that can be offered or made. These gallant two hundred and more rough riders of Arizona freely and penerolIs-