Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 June 1899 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1889.

A REFUSAL of the 83,000,000 by the Ouban soldiers can not alter the considerate kindness and open handed friendliness of the o£fer.

IN reply to their flags of truce the Tagals have been offered the moBt liberal terms by the United States. The Tagal answer on the firing line is war, and that leavee further parley unnecessary, unleBS for unconditional surrender.

EACH regiment in the Philippines is to be supplied with rapid-fire guns, which is undoubtedly a wise idea. The Maxims in Kitchener's army were more dreaded by the dervishes and did greater execution than the heavier artillery.

EVERY shot fired by the Tagals henceforth is a demand for the sovereignty of the Philippines, for they have been offered the largest practicable degree of home rule. The war will be prosecuted vigorously with this ^understanding.

CUBAN soldiers who refuse the $75 offered by the United States can not say that this country asked them to return to civil life in a penniless condition. The money is generously tendered to prevent a charge of that kind, which would not be without some force.

THE people of the United States expect the administration to stand firm in the Alaskan boundary dispute, This Country's rights must not be thrown to the birds as they have been in the'past in boundary disputations with Great Britain. The boundary between Alaska and British America was fixed by the treaty of 1824, Russia and Great Britain being the signatory powers. Not a question regarding it had been raised when, more than forty years later, Alaska was transferred to the United States. Nor was there any question as to the boundry in the succeeding years until Canada began the construction of Pacific railroads, and a greater extent of western coast line became desirable. Then she Bet up the contention that the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of 1834 did not mean to declare Portland channel the southern boundary of the Alaskan panhandle, but Behm channel, thus extending the Canadian coast line northward some Bixty miles and conceding several hundred square miles of American territory to the British flag. Later, when the gold excitement stimulated emigration lo Alaska and the Klondike district, Canada manufactured the new claim that Skaguay, Dyea, and other points at the head of Lynn channel were in Canadian, not American, territory, whereas, the recognized boundary from 1824 had been a point north of Chilcoot pass and White pass.

THE Filipinos will be made to understand that if they give up the fight they will be treated considerately by the Americans. All the promises of lenient treatment made by the commissioners in the islands will be carried out by the President, providing the insurgents submit to American authority. The terms which are offered to the Filipinos are better than those whichJEngland gives to India. The President will appoint a governor general and judges, and the governor general will select the cabinet, the cabinet officers and the judgeB to be Americans oriFilipinos, or both, while a general advisory council is to be elected by the people of the islands. These terms are exceedingly liberal and it mustjbe remembered that this is the plan for the outset. If the Filipinos show that they are prepared to make a wise use of a larger measure of self-government, it undoubtedly will be furnished them. Of course the President's authority is under the general war powers of the executive. His government can only be provisional. Congress will provide the permanent government. Any one can see, however, that congress will be more likely to deal leniently with the Filipinos if they accept the reasonable termB offered by the President than if they reject these conditions and stand out against all accommodation with the Americans short of actual or virtual independence. The terms which are offered to Aguinaldo and his dupes are far more favorable than would be accorded to them by any other nation in the world

THE 0PP0SITI03f«INiTHK PHIUP•MWSI lT»T1CTf.S.

Chicago Times-Herald-. People who would magnifyfthe insurrection in the Philippineslshut their eyes to some very obvious facts which receive a certain emphasis in a late dispatch from General Otis. The general cableB that two battalions of the 23d infantry are now in quiet possession of Jolo in the Sulu group, and |that there is the best of news from Mindanao. When the Spaniards withdrew from the city of Zamboanga, on the latter island, the insurgents|informed General Rios that they would not oppose the landing of the Americans, but would accept the conditions imposed in Luzon. Both the Sulu archipelago and Mindanao gave the old Spanish regime an immense amount of trouble. We heard much of their pirates and their bead hunterB when our attention was first directed toward the Philippines, and many were the direful predictions of the sorrow they would cause us. But already events have put this bugbear to flight.

Furtherinorthward in the important Visayan group of islands the same story is told The people of Negros were thejfirst to come forward voluntarily and welcome American rule, and since the fall of Uoilo there has been no elfective^opposition in Panay, Cebu or the other fcVisayan islands. The mass of the people is not friendly to rebellion.

More than^half the entire area of the Phillipines is thus accounted for before we get to Aguinaldo and his Tagals, who are celebrated by the critics of thetgovernment as "the Filipinos." It is they who have done about all the fighting or running away that has beengdignified by the name of insurrection, and to impute their deeds to the many races of the many islands is to misrepresent the situation in a large wayjthat would make Ananias blush. Tagal and Filipino are not synonymous. uThe nformer does not apply even to all the people of Luzon, some of whom are uncompromisingly hostile to the ambition of Aguinaldo. There are, in fact, feuds between the Tagals and other natives of the island which incline the latter to be friendly toward the Americans.

And the Tagals themselves are net united. The men of property among them have opposed the insurrection from the beginning, and gince the repeated defeats of Aguinaido's arffly the poorer classes have rushed to the American lines for protection. Ia the same period the army itself has been decimated, and there is now nothing left of it but a cowed and beaten remnant. This it iB that is keeping up the sprinting match which is called the Filipino war. The future may be predicted accordingly.

THERE are thousands of men in this country to-day who hang their heads with shame to remember that thirtyfive years ago they were against the administration in its prosecution of the war. Thirty-five years from now there will be just as many filled with 6elf reproach and self condemnation for the stand they now occupy in relation to the war in the Philippines. Treason is never a pleasant thing to think on.

THE pacific intentions of the civilian members of the United States Philippines commission are excellent, but probably the military men who are on the commission understand batter that, to make any real and permanent peace with the Filipinos, it is necessary first to convince them that they are thoroughly whipped. General Otis is right in proposing to make the evidence of this indisputable.

PKFFKR, of Kansas, denies, in a card to the New York Journal, that he has flocked back to the Republicans.

IT is but natural that the shortage of pig iron should make the steel manufacturers squeal.

For Poor Belief.

Auditor White has received a circular letter notifying him of the opinion of the attorney-general to the effect that county commissioners are to make allowances to township trustees as overseers of the poor, for poor relief from the county treasury until Jan. next. After that the commissioners shall make allowances from an appropriation made for that purpose by the county council at its annual meeting. lien-Hur ISoomltig.

At a meeting of Simonides Court No. 1, Tribe Ben-Hur last Monday six candidates were initiated and eleven new applications received for membership Meetings will be held every Monday evening till further notice. There was an unusually large attendance last Monday and the work was beautifully given by the local degree team.

LAST fall I sprained my left hip while handling some heavy boxes. The doctor I called on said at first it waB a slight strain and would soon be well, but it grew worse and the doctor then said I had rheumatism. It continued to grow worse and I could hardly get around to work. I went to a drug Btore and the druggist recommended me to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I tried it and one-half of a 50cent bottle cured me entirely. I now now recommend it to all friends,—F. A. BABCOCK, Erie, Pa. It is for sale by Nye & Booe, druggists,

FORQOUR SOLDIER DEAD.

Decoration Day [Services—An Eloquent Address By Bev. A. W, Runynn .... at Alusle Kali.

The recorder's office at the court house on Tuesday presented a busy scene as the flowers for the decoration of the graves of our soldier dead were brought in and prepared in wreathes and garlands for this annual observance. The busy fingers of the committee of ladies soon had the fragrant and beautiful floral offerings arranged and at 9 o'clock proceeded to the different cemeteries, where, after a short service, the graves of the soldiers of the civil war were decorated with the tribute of a grateful people to her heroes who gave up their lives for their country. Nor were the graves of the soldiers of the SpanishAmerican war neglected and upon the mounds of earth that cover the remains of Messrs Mitchell and BrittoD, members, of Co. M, choice flowers were strewn with lavish hand. There were many flowers this year and the children were very assiduous in gathering and bringing to the decorating committee bunches of sweet smelling syringas, lilacs, roses and other floral gifts.

At lo'clock in the afternoon theGrand Army of the Republic together with other orders met in front of the hall on south Washington street and from there proceeded to Music Hall for the exercises which are always such a pleasant feature of Memorial Day. The order of the parade was as follows: .?'••-

Platoon of police. Cra wfordsville bund. Citizens' Committee.

Company of boys under command of John Springman. Knights of St. John.

Knights of Pythias. P. O. S. of A. Coinmandery. So'diers of Spanish-American War./

Grand Army of the Republic. Arrived at MuBic Ilall the Grand Army were seated on the stage and the other orders and citizens found seats in the auditorium. The stage and hall had been magnificently decorated by the committee appointed for that purpose and presented a pretty and patriotic 6cene. The stars and stripes were everywhere in confusion and pictures of Lincoln, Grant and others were displayed upon the stage. The front of the stage

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palms and ferns and numerous bequets of cut flowers were scattered about the stage, filling the hall with their perfume and addiDg greatly to the decorations. The programme as printed was rendered and the address was made by Rev. A. Wallace Runyan, pastor of the First Baptist church. It was an eloquent and patriotic effort and teemed with spirit of true Americanism »\nd he had the closest attention of the large audience to the close. A synopsis of the address follows:

Fellow Citizens, Soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic:—It gives me great pleasure to meet you to-day and to congratulate you on your great future. You have the good fortune of being citizens of the first and grandest republic ever established upon the face of the earth—a republic whose flag is the noblest kissed by thei Bun. I congratulate you on being a citizen of this magnificent state of Indiana, and a citizen of this beautiful city, the Athens of this great commonwealth. This is a royal fortune, to be the peir of all the great and brave men of this land and of all the good, loving and patient women. To be in possession of the blessing they have given should make every healthy citizen of the United States of America feel like a millionaire. This to-day is the most prosperous country on the globe, and it is something to be a citizen of that country. I congratulate you that you live in the nineteenth century—a splendid age. A century so full of hope and of achievements for the American freedom, in a history making age. Never were the words of our own great poet so full of inspiration as now: "We are living, we are dwelling

In a grand and awful time In an age on ages tilling, iv in I Anniversaries are divinely ordained teachers. In the individual and collective life it is the periodical recurrence of great epochs that break up life's monotony, freshens the tides of feeling and opens up new channels for thought and purpose, for nothing educates like an emergency and the memory thereof.

To-day we do well to reflect that if other nations exceed UB in the number of holidays none surpass us in the dignity of our celebration days. In midwinter we praise the individual and the ideal Americanism for which he stands. In mid-summer we praise free institutions and the principles of civic and religious liberty. At Thanksgiving we celebrate the family and the home as the springs of national greatness. AtJChristmas times with gifts and adoring

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world's teacher and Savior. And in God's providence at this memorial time we record our indebtedness to the patriot soldiers, our homage to their bravery, our.aympathy with their sufferings, our »jad miration for their achievements, while we pledge our­

selves to live noblyifor those institutions foriwhich they nobly died. The peculiar genius of thiB memorial season is that, whilelgother holidays praise institutions]this celebrates the living man, honors theprivate citizen and theiseemingly obscure soldier.

Walter Scott described Old Mortality going through the cemeteries ol Scotland chiseling anew on the tombstones the nameB that years and time had well nigh obliterated. Asked to explain his zeal for the memory of these worthies the old man replied that he wished to see the heroes of yeBterday march forward side by side with those of to-day. This noble Bentiment reminds us that that nation suffers a great calamity whose children and youth have separated themselves from yesterday's battle fieldB and victories and have forgotten to celebrate the statesmen. The sages are the fathers from whom we have receivediour priceless heritage.

THEJORJECT OF THIS DAY. The object|of this day is not the glorification of war. America has never been a war-like nation. She has never prided herself upon her standing army or upon her navy, or upon her military academies and yet America is ready to fight the world if need be.

This day is notfdevoted to the art of war, but it is devoted to the praise of peace and of liberty this is the day given to the symposium upon patriotism, to find what patriotism and how patriotism may be cultivated.

This day is given to the study of history, that in history we may see the rule of God and the play of the human andithe operation of moral principles in the national life. The hour is to be used in thinking of these men who are in the silent tent of green. Name their names with respect and reverence. Repeat their deeds and describe their battles. Crown their graves with the beauties of earth and proclaim by symbolic flowers the moral beauty which you see in their deeds.

How can we henor our heroic dead? 1. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by exalting the influence of their deeds. 2. By acting towards their opponents as they would have acted were they living. 3. By being true to the principles for which they died. 4. By remembering that there is but one flag in America and one country over which it is to float.

LESSORS OF THE WAR.

The period of the war was not an empty period. It was full of revelations and lessons. It defilareB the strength of our republic. Out of our terrible conflict there comes an assurance of a long and j? trong future. Our war was a crucial test of America's greatness. It shows that America will always have great men for great crises.

But thejday and the occasion calls us to honor our patriotic dead. How can living Americans honor the great American dead?

A NEW IMPULSE.

When the sad news flashed across the waters on that memorable February morning that "laBt night the Maine was blown up" and that 268 of our noble seamen had gone down to a watery gi ave, then it was that our nation in thejeonversions of that awful night had a new birth. Heretofore we have stood apart from the nations of the earth. We had declined al-liance'offensive-or defensive. But the time came in the white light of our nineteenth century civilization when we could not longer remain silent. Almost within our door-yard we witnessed the island of Cuba, one of the garden-spots of the Bea, laid waste and made as barren as the desert by the cruel hand of the iron-hearted Spaniard. For these long years we had witnessed a people strugling for home and.country and fighting for the same liberty for which our ancestors fought and for which our heroes died—a liberty God-given and eternal. We could no longer remain silent. We seemed to hear again the deep, mellow tones of the old liberty bell ringing in our ear6. The old flint-rocks of Bunker Hill, and the bare-foot patriots if Valley Forge stood up before us.

Time and again this nation had said to the Spaniard that this cruelty must stop, and as often our warning bad gone unheeded. Finally Satan overreached himself and Spanish treachery came to light in the flash of light which blew up the good ship Maine, and when the news reached the shores of a liberty-loving people that 268 of the sons of the sea had gone down to the bottom of the sea, then we remembered Fort Sumpter. Every drop of American blood boiled for revenge. Then it was that the hand of that assassin, when he blew up the good ship Maine, lighted a new fire on the altar of liberty. That stupid assassin intended to murder our seamen and to destroy our great battleship floating our flag. This he did but he accomplished vastly more. He lighted the fuse to the magazine beneath the Spanish throne, and when that explosion came the foundation of the Spanish throne was shaken to the center.

For thiee hundred years Spain had ground down her iron heal upon helpleBS Cuba laid waste her plantations,

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starved her mothers with their helpless babes and made captive her daughters .The hour had come when America must strike for the sake of humanity. And then she struck as only America can strike. From the far famed hills of Vermont she struck on that memorable Sunday morning, May 1st, 1898, in the harbor of Manila Through our gallant son of the south we struck when we planted that old ship in the throat of Santiago harbor. On that Sabbath morning, July 3rd, we etruck an American blow when Sampson and.Schley, with their brave seamen and gunners, swept from the sea Cervera's fleet, the pride of the Spanish navy. We struck an Amerlblow when our gallant'sons swept up the heights of El Caney and climbing the hill at San Juan, and planted there the stars and stripes forever. These victorious blows for liberty can be measured, not alone by the blessing brought to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines not alone by brave deeds well done not alone the triumph of this republic over the Spanish kingdom not alone in the extension of territory but they have written upon the wall of the world's palace that this ocean bound republic stands for freedom now and freedom forever the world around.

OLD GLORY.

When the leader of the Pilgrim Fathers stepped foot upon the May Flower, he carried a banner inscribed with this promise, "Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred unto a land that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation and in thee shall all the families of the earth be bleBt." Gen. 12: 1-3*

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quality of its founders. The Pilgrim Fathers were picked men in an age notable for men large of mind and great of heart. Their supreme ambition was to organize liberty that America should become the world's educator in free institutions. Upon the banner of the new republic were emblazoned four watch words viz., "Liberty," "equality," "intelligence," and "opportunity." Not only is our flag the promise and prophecy of our future internal growth—it shows that the Bweep of our national power touches all points of the compass. One hundred and twenty-three years under the stars and stripes has done more for the world's progress than a thousand years under all former flags combined. This is no coincident of history, it is the infalible fruit of our flag aB the symbol of principles which all civilized nations in one form or another

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now recognize and adopt. In its typical sense our flag is destined by its beneficent influence to rule the nations of the earth. In this distinctive: sense we see its loftiest symbolism. It shapes to a vast extent tne destinies of mankind. In the downfall of despotism and the rearing of republics, in its restraint upon crowned cruelty and legalized crime, in its death blow to ignorance, barbarism and anarchy our flag exerts world wide sway and potency.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displaced because of the truth." "Long as thine art shall love true love.

Long as tliy science truth shall know. Long as thy eagle harms no dove, Long as thy law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above.

Thy brother every man below So locgdear land of all my love. Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall .glow." ..

SIDNEY LAUHIER

At the conclusion of the address the audience remained seated while the members of tbe G. A. R. passed froni the hall and tbe march was taken up for the return to their hall where the ranks were disbanded.

Thus c'osed another Memorial day in this city, and no one can Bay that the lessons taught by its observance have not been for the best, and they have made an impression upon the minds of the younger generations which time can not erase. To the old Boldiers who survive it means but another step toward the reunion which shall know no ending, and as their stepB grow feebler and their eyes dim with age, the bond of comradeship grows stronger and they realize that soon the reunion will be-.! come complete and when the assembly call is sounded there will be no member mlsBing in the eternity that shall follow thi9 life in the great beyond,' May this hope be realized in its full fruition.

Would Not Suffer So Again for Fifty Time* Its Frlce.

I awoke last night with severe pains in my stomach. I never felt so badly in all my life. When I came down to work this morning I felt so weak 1 could hardly work. I went to Miller & McCurdy's drug store and they recommended Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It worked like magic and one dose fixed me all right. It certainly is the finest thing I ever used for stomach trouble. I shall not be without it in my home hereafter, for I should not care to endure the sufferings of last night again for fifty times its price.—G. H. WILSON, liveryman, Burgettstown, Washington Co., Pa. This remedy is for sale by Nye fc Booe, druggists.

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