Show fe THE WAR IS 18 OVER OVEIL spain has formally accepted the terms prescribed by the united states gw as prerequisites to peace this virtually ends the hispano remains is the war all that amerlean Amerl can carrying caming out of the terms and the con relating to the elusion of an agreement 1 philippine islands the rhe struggle has not ended a day too soon for either party spain is cTr drowned owned in debt and is even if by forced measures and ee she were able to raise money enough to continue for a while which she is not the outcome must eventually be the same and the additional expense thus become a case of throwing good money after bad while the misery and aurailia hu humiliation railia tion of her people is already creat enough to abide with them through all this generation at least on n the part of the united states while quite able and if necessary eMarY willing to eon continue the war to a different conclusion it is much more willing to stop the expense of conducting the contest mas bas been enormous from the start and on a steadily growing scale everything of f consequence that spain has in the way of colonial possessions is gone encumbered with the prospect of or eventual loss and the united states could get no mo more re than it has haa got so V that any additional expense would be aio 00 much more added to an already large collectable account As against an expenditure un of what will be at the fin jah fully this country will receive as its property porto rico with r adjacent islets and a ladrone ift it beland worth altogether on a liberal estimate one half of the above figure we will hold cuba but only in t trust rust or the cubans until they are able to r control it properly or by their own un 7 forced action cede it to the united states the same in some measure as to labe philippines it is notto not to be inferred that with the of hostilities there will be no aee longer need of armies and munitions of war until the natives settle down and d become adjusted to the new order of things large police establishments wall have to be maintained among them the expense of this however may bi be partially if not entirely colle collect t 4 S as to the philippines and cuba from the revenues of the islands to be handled and controlled under the of the united states and d there will be other expenses to the civil administration aA 1110 that will vf course be met in the same way then for reclamation reformation and the infusing of new aad healthier blood into the shrunken ah arteries art edes of the captive colonies what mighty burdensome long enduring and withal upright philanthropic labor this will be it is tw bringing of order out of chaos the y ng from the dark recesses recess ea of ig norance nce and superstition millions of fc beings and placing them within I 1 benignant power of human pro igims 11 the rescue from the clutches of monsters of misrule and oppression W the victims whose wrongs have ua been I 1 permitted to continue a hun years after the sunlight of the vew civilization be began gan to break through vii bie clouds of old time barbarity the of schools institutions of art arl appliances of science improved of labor communion upon terms of amity and equality with other the overthrow of bigotry the out of hatred the abolition fee the reformation of evils the lehment ieh ment of just government the loa 04 from taxation unless accod AW fajr representation A greated any ever undertaken and carried out by any nation and happily in the hands of those that are willing and capable who will falter not and pause not until the grand consummation is grained gained at every point the american republic now takes on a new glory it has shown how terrible it is in war though but pari bially how grand it can be in peace no other power in all this would have shown so much charity generosity and forbearance when holding within itself the abil ability lity and authority to be exacting harsh and unyielding it says to spain before going to war the issue can no longer be averted or put off we have waited patiently for some sign of repentance of your atrocities to your helpless subjects at our doors and in response to our entreaties our urgent appeals you or your agents destroy one of our ships on a friendly visit and with it unoffending american lives you disclaim the responsibility for the inhuman deed yet you put forth no effort to hunt down the assassins so that the crime might be expiated and yourself vindicated you are unfit to rule in this hemisphere now go or fight 1 the warning is unheeded more it is derided laughed at the american is only a second secand class nation says the spaniard with no prestige or standing on the sea and no army that we cannot demolish on the land go on with your fight so it went on slowly very slowly for a time be cause the giants forces were so great even in reserve that it took time to get them together and in battle array army but they came along in twos and threes in dozens and hundreds and finally in iou sands and tens of thou thousands a ands there was no panic no excite ment no precipitancy there was a steady unostentatious determination visible upon the manly faces of the men of our land as they placed themselves in ahne shouldered their muskets and marched to the front the war cloud gathered slowly but darkly and ominously above the doomed nation its volume increased and soon the rumbling thunders were heard and the first flashes of lightning shot athwart the sky without other warning the first great bolt descended and shivered into atoms a spanish squadron and destroyed or sent into captivity everyone upon it the storm had broken and it raged with little abatement until the erstwhile boastful people were beaten bruised and begging for mercy prostrate they ask for terms arid and the victors instead of spurning the supplicants and adding greater humiliation and sorrows to those already inflicted say arise repent amend repair your broken fortunes as best you may without further molest molestation or harm we only fight the toe foe in open battle this war is over |