Year: 1873

where about little island lying 90 the OF us
Even now as there seems cause OF onense reaipnN'
there still continues the description OF comen'
Many people still think that II would have been an e1-
ceent thing TO have had with Spain that II woud
have put money m circulation, frightened up trade
turned the factory wheels more and gwen employ
men to muttudes now without occupation unless tney
find 1t ia pauporisn or crime. Would II, said Miss
Dickinson, have put money IL circulation Win
out adding some hundreds OF millions TO deDe
under which people already rolling and staggering
ar they pass Would 1t have found employment for
the poori Truly, by butchering being buchered In
turn good thing to have you say, since 1t would
have freed Cuba and wiped forever from tho earth the
tyrant Slavery. Every who makes that assertion
knows that it means the triumph OF America over
Span and that dagger to the heart OF Tree gov
ernment aud free religion. To sweep Slavery from
Cuba is TO establish Bourbon despotism and worse
bigotry Of the Catholic Church for the next gen
Grafton. / coufess / recognize, with great
deal Of amusement, that the men who have been
the oudest in their talk have not been the men VINO
would in war have found occupation by going 10 the
front think this talk about Cuba being great gam
the Republic is the talk that has been heard Tor the
last generation, that 1t would be an excellent tnne or
us to possess Central America, to annex Canada lls
a admirable thing for this Government TO spread
North American continent II indeed the real bass OF
power Is found in extent OF territory ana nbD





for It history, that invariably wealth accunulaes
nations and mon decay.


The speaker narrowed her comments on tnis Dtpad
topic 10 the conditions accompanying the evil she had
alluded to- as ia individual life III America descriD
ing the intense passion for wealth which IN TINS country
excluded according to- her view, IN large DEGREE the
finer sentiments and broader Instincts OF humanity
The speaker took up the subject OF politics. reiarklng
that the history OF politics this country had made the
municipal officer equivalent to that OF tnief IL
had resulted In universal decentralization or public
opinion The sentiment that met the verdict pro-
nOunced across the the 22d or November over
a great criminal, one OF sheer amaZement that
the greatest thief In the country could ac-
tually be put In prison cell, and this reel
ing the keynote To our CONDITION.
II this miserable and tragic Winter crowded with
horrible disasters OF various kinds shall teach us, said
She lesson learned and forgot 10 years ago. We
shall do well. No SAID then there Is the Navy De-
partment Jock after the navy and the Treasury De-
partment to look after the TreasnIy" " then the people
went behind the officers, and saw that they ala the
work. We showed, again, III those days, now we con-
nected ourselves with the great work to be DONE we
look upon these multitudes OF human people In our


midst scarcely as human beings. We ignore them as be-
longing to family OF humanity. We are not
acquainted with the poor aud the oucast. Tney want
help not charity charity creates want as IL relieves
They want the means and elements OF education IN
order that tIey may become selfsustanins