Show congressman GROWS ELOQUENT dolliver of iowa says we have been caught in t current that our forefathers called the course of human events yew york aug 9 congressman J IL dolliver of iowa in the course ot a lecture at ocean grove N J eaid last night we have gained in our war with spain infinitely more than we have lost and the unerring instinct at large whose sovereign purpose overruled the indu menta oi the statements in the initial stages of the condict has riven us a sew national prestige at home and abroad to ourselves a new basis 0 belf respect to the nations of europe a new and healthful insight into our resources and power the world will be slow to make a quarrel with a community that can raise two hundred millions ot dollars without the aid of syndicates at borne or abroad within two weeks by a popular loan the cabinets of the old world will bold a long session before allowing themselves to be drawn into a collision with a nation which in five years will have at its disposal a steel fleet of which the brooklyn and oregon are only the types and forerunners the war has perfected our st reneth at home by the total obliterating of the lines of sectional marked upon our map by the greater struggles of the last generation uen joe wheeler in the thick ot the foght at santiago stands for the larger patriotism north and south which has turned its back upon the past and opened its vision to the sublime destiny of a reunited people the same influence a which have restored the perfect union of our country have brought back also the harmony to which broadminded broad minded men of both countries have long looked forward in the relations of the english speaking world at the outbreak of the spanish war the restless diplomacy of europe circumvented cum vented by the prompt notice of the english government that any constraint placed by the powers upon the government of the united states would have to count upon the disapproval and active hostilities of the government and people of england and thus by a simple act of national fellowship the worn and threadbare prejudice of a century yields in both countries to a recognition of the common cause which the english race scattered throughout the earth ia now to make for liberty and civilization the peace which is now at hand imposes upon our government problems vastly more difficult than the prosecution of the war II 11 puts the destinies of the spanish colonies at once in our bands it gives us porto rico the government of which will probably bb an easy tusk and requires us to establish a stable and orderly government in caba agreeable to the people of the island we have already raised the alas of the laifi id states over the hawaiian islands now familiar with republican institutions admiral dewey in the harbor of manila by the most notable exploit in history has brought no face to face with the problem of the philippines two shingi the american people are all merced upon the first is that we ought not to desert our insurgent allies E in the hour of our victory and leave them to the tender mercies of an r drained spanish despotism and the second is that the question ia an american one and that what we do shall not be constrained by the interference of any european prince or potentate whatsoever it may be counted aa certain that the flag of the united states is in the philippines to stay and that whether our government assumes I 1 over the whole group or not we will escure such a naval and commercial station there as will enable ua to adi minister to the needs of our own corn merce and became the agents and guard ians of the peace and liberty of the island from the beginning to the end of the war it is evident to the devout student of history that our people in a strange way have been subject to the guidance of powers wiser than any human fore eight and that we have come to our present situation in the providence of god without our knowing it or intending it we have been caught in the current in what our fathers used to call the course of human events up to this hour we have discharged every duty with heroism and belf that has taken no thought for ourselves it cannot be doubted that aba president of the united states secured in the confidence of all the people without regard to politics will go forward in the discharge ot every duty which arises oot of our new relations to the civilization of the world and behind him will giand the united millions of our people ready for duty as old bismarck once eaid in the fear 0 god arul nothing else |