Some of the International Aspects of the Cuban Question
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Excerpt from Some of the International Aspects of the Cuban Question: Annual Address, Before the Pennsylvania State Bar Association, at Delaware Water Gap, Friday, July 8, 1898 A man may feel that a war is foolish, he may at heart be opposed to all wars as unphilosophical and unchristian, he may even cherish the notion that war is but systematic homicide and trespass combined and conducted on a gigantic scale under the sanction of law, but with no binding force upon his individual conscience, as the higher law which he at his peril, between his Maker and himself, is bound to obey; but, when the war is actually on, he becomes a party to it whether he wills it or not, and when his fellow men, as his representatives, engaged in the discharge of a duty common alike to him and them, are risking their lives on the land and sea, for his protection, he has no right, measured not by the highest, but by the lowest standard of duty, except to submit to the inevitable. If he can render no other service to the government, he can at least hold his tongue and suffer the stings of conscience in silence. It may be well for such a person indeed to challenge his conscience and probe his consciousness to the bottom lest there be lurking in some hidden corner of his nature some other motive so secreted or so slyly and unconsciously working that what is mistaken for a deliberate judgment on the obligations of duty may be, after all, some selfish interest or the importunate prompting of the instinct of self-preservation. It would be, therefore, not only idle at this time to attempt the discussion of the causes which have produced the present hostilities between our country and Spain, but, so far as any discussion of them would or might involve any unfavorable criticism upon the action of our Government, the attempt might well be characterized as ill-timed and unpatriotic. Fortunately, however, I can approach the subject, not only from the standpoint of one who goes with his country, right or wrong, a sentiment in time of war which I heartily endorse, but also from a clear conviction, both upon principle and authority, such as the case permits, that the country is absolutely right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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