Show REPUBLIC b LIC OR O oj EMPIRE Senator George G e F JI Hoar in Coiners CoIs Weekly The issue Ue iesu to be a b to the people of the Ute United 18 the western estern hem h e was submitted to the tra meat ment of war St rt tile far east The people of 0 the United states have I not not as yet fully tully understood it They have j thought some me of ot them that we were I dealing with a barbarous har and aad savage race rue i I incapable of ot governing themselves They i thought that an an unprovoked unprovOked attack had hadi i been basis made upon our nag flag They have hare bees been i excited as every net free and ad brave braye people I I would be excited by the tart tact that their country was wu engaged In tn war But the truth tierS ef of the feet and the righteousness of ot the law Jc w which has hu been d are alike aUke becoming known The questions qu above j I stated stat between the republic o sad mod the em empire e Dire pire between liberty M and aad slavery re be tween the lite Declaration of Independence and imperialism between the doctrines of j Washington and sd Lincoln and the doc doe 1 trines of or George III ILL and Napoleon Bona Bonn Bonaparte parte perte nil be settled settimi They will be settled sooner or later toy y the American people and anti they win will in iii use the end he e settled right bt By B presidents through presidents cc or over I presidents by congress through or 01 over congress COD by political parties pa iea through political parti parties or over political i parties the Irresistible current will find i its way Some me of our friends who justify this I subjugation t lion are r fi Of taking ng on their lips Ups the name nante of or deity deiLy art although hough I think most of them nice like better to fo speak weak of or I destiny This invocation D of the name of God seems fo Cd me to be impious Did 1114 God decree the partition of Poland Did God keep the fair f tales isles of Greece under the I feet of Turk Turkey Did God peep Italy under the armed heel of Austria and Naples aples and I Sicily under lUng Did thrust the Italian patriot Into lato their hope less prisons Was Vs it God murdered ar by starving hi hint him In a dungeon when T Tto Napoleon him himon himon on board a Preach tIp sup and aM carried him to France Fran e DM Did G Qed Ged d pleader o our mission aries ants in Armenia Did God the Christians In tn Turkey DId DM Ged God enact the Fugitive slave sYe law lw I have raa the scripture otherwise e It must needs nee be that offences come But ut t woe unto ache that man soil arid woe unto that tl h nation by b whom I the offence The ao doctrine for I stand and for I which I 1 speak has he triumphed so 80 o far in every conSist conflict Iet in I saz wr an and io In peace ace ur ear r i from t at Plymouth of ol tl t s Wl it across 8 the sea ea eaK WD wa to the when what we war with ed K by both houA non a of congress and signed by P President McKinley It kept in is grasp against statesman and court ourt and prelate the charters of i an and Con I neet Cut It stood in n arms arnie at Lexington on and an Contra Om Concord In tn the morning of the revo mo 1 V victory from defeat at t ker p lU It cheered Marion and So Sum iI anti Granse in the southern It It ft wa was IR Ia blazing bIasing words word lii the IM greet Declaration It cheered wk Washington R and ad Ms hr army in tn the gloomy days daS or of Valor Valley Forge it bas ban built the tile eternal of pf the nation in n the theon and t is the eternal tiOn on on Oft which wt every state rests rata re It stood for fot saflora rights in jn 1812 1512 It ft saved thi the union in th tM Sly y peril perri ril By Bv H Jt W OR lived ved and fo for it LIncoln LInol died It was Wall that which juStified us In liberating Cuba and which justified us ua tn in the fleet of Spain at Manila ManUa we had bad become come the freest richest nation on t the he face of the the earth It t i ten to the UIe O boil fe yet to the meat mast on every fold over every stripe and ani ever steeg star of the American That Thai mantti l a Understands understand in m say my jude nag flag I rich ute tie t r or of the American people 1 Wh who thinks we are elt either r to forget it to desert ile rt it Jt i or I |