Show LOYAL LEGION OF INDIANA Resolutions Adopted to Stand by the President LEW WALLACE APPEARS MAKES A 1UXGEVG SPEECH AM IS LoUDLY APPuUDED If We Must Fight I Wish it Could Be With England Alone It Would Then Be a Complete Affair a Finality Inside of a Year There Would Be Jfo British Commerce and That Means British Bankruptcy Bank-ruptcy ANSVITIE lEnd Dec 20Tlte annual meeting of the Indiana Loyal legion was held here last night Almost a full attendance was present and thirteen new candidates were accepted A banquet was held at the St George hotel with 300 present at Which the following resolutions were adopted with deafening applause Resolved By the Indiana comman dery of the military order of the Loyal legion of the United States that the position assumed by this government with England on th Venezuelan question ques-tion is endorsed Resolved In the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine we are not members of political organizations but Americans Ameri-cans jealous of European aggrandizement aggrandize-ment and determined to resist all monarchial mon-archial encroachment on the western hemisphere Resolved That we demand that our government recede rot from its position posi-tion with England but firmly and with force is necessary compel a recognition I recogni-tion of the Monroe doctrine Resolved That a copy of these resolutions reso-lutions be forwarded to the president of the United States Ben Hur Applauded < < General Lew Wallace < was vehemently vehement-ly applauded when he said The Monroe doctrine Is the glove of challenge thrown to all the great powers of Europe If one accepts the gage it will in all likelihood b with most of the others in the alliance That Lotrd Salisbury took six months to compose his response it is reasonable reason-able to believe ibis lordship consumed three months looking for allies in case he refused to arbitrate England in arms against us is one thing all Europe with the exception of Russia is another Here is the conclusion If we must fight I wish it could be with England alone Not that it would be an easy affair if the duel were singlehanded but that it would be a complete affair a finality It would go hard with us at first but we would not be idle Before Be-fore a year there would be no British commerce the interruption of which is simply universal British bankruptcy and at the end as I see it we would own everything on this side of the globe from the Gulf of Mexico to the north pole second Russia would be established in Constantinople and hurrying the conclusion in British In dia It all depends on the constancy of our people if they endure and go grimly on the hour will come when we can effectually wake the democracy of England |