The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-25

OF bad taSCe. Zoo KNOWS we are far from
preaching military virtuea that we do
not possess, and we would gladly
forget thousands of things that occurred
in our war-nay, more. blot every
memory of it from history. But the war in
Cuba is not war; It is massacre, pillage,
wholesale slaughter in cold blood Not only
that but there are scoundrels in administra-
ton recalling and surprising the atrocities of
Pizarro and Cortes or the worst features Of
English rule in India and Ireland. Is it
necessary that we should refer to these things
in detailp Spain has dealt with her colonies
not like mother, but like vampire. Cuba,
fairest of all lands, rich washed by grateful
seas, shone upon by q generous, life-inviting
sun, with the elements of an empire in itself,
truly gem, as it is fondly called-this Cuba,
which might be blessing and support to
Spain, is her weakness, and may be her ruin.
Cuba to-day is the victim of every feature Of
misgovernment ever devised by the deviltry
and subtlety Of tyrants. This is wide and
grave assertion, we know But we cannot form
another conclusion. And, knowing this, we
have felt, and we feel now, that our country,
and especially the administration Of General
Grant, deserves to be held to strict account
ability for our failure to compel reform in
the government Of the island
What we have ceased to expect from the
selfishness and timidity of our own govern
ment let us hope from Spain. When we CEN
sure what has been done in Cuba we speak Of
the Spain of the past. The new men come
into power covered over with pledges of re-
form, and more particularly reform in the
colonies. Will they redeem them? Can they
redeem them? Already they have the slave
power arrayed against the new Republic.
With this power there can be no compromise
We tried expedient after expedient in our
dealings with it, and every concession was
followed by new aggressions In the end it
required the whole strength of the Republic
and four years of war to overthrow it. We
see adisposition among some of the liberals to
compromise with the slpye power IL Madrid,
to postpone emancipation in Cuba, to make it
gradual, partial or covered in some way by re-
strictions. Nothing could be more fatal.
There is but one way to deal with slavery
destroy it. Enact its complete extinction in
Cuba as in Porto Rico. There are many
more things to be done in these Antilles, but
this is the most important. 1t is the first step.
When that is taken we shall hope for good re-
suits in the future, but not till then.
Tho Brooklyn Murder Mystery.
90 oI, u, oTt he t1,av
of the murdered man, Charles Goodrich, when
he stepped into the room where the remains
lay on Friday morning, has had its effect of
horror upon the whole community. A crime
had been committed around which veil of
mystery hung, and the public, looking in the
papers of Saturday morning. from the stories
detailing how two murderers met their end to
the column setting forth the latest bloodstain
upon our civilization, asked, What is to be
done? The announcement that the police
were on the track did not cheer people much
who remember the Rogers and Nathan muir
ders, resting in darkness yet, and who recall
that in the Rosenzweig case the important link
of the marked handkerchief was discovered by
a newspaper reporter. In spite of the fact
that the body was found to have three bullets
through the brain and an abrasion on the
forehead from which the blood had been
washed, detectives were found who shook their
heads and said Suicide" 1t has, however,
been sufficiently developed that the deceased
could not have inflicted the wounds, and, in
default of proof that they were the work Of
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suspicion has fixed upon a woman who has
disappeared and is alleged to have been the
mistress of the deceased. Four days have now
elapsed and the detectives have so far failed
to lay their hands upon this woman. She
must have been known to many others beside
the dead man. Her relations with him have
doubtless been matter of knowledge to at
least few Some time before the murder she
wrote letter to one of his friends in which
not only the criminal relation but the result
child-is alluded to. The woman found that
he was about to discard her and was growing
desperate. 1t is highly probable, then, that
she made other condolences and verbal ones on
the matter. 1t is believed that hers was the
woman's voice heard calling for assistance on
night in February last. These shadowy
things are not by any means conclusive proof
that she killed him but they are enough to
make her production necessity. Circum-
stances point to her as being the only person
who can throw light on the deed. Depending
upon her arrest appears to lie the final proof
of who murdered Charles Goodrich. We do
not ask the detectives to give up any of their
grand theories that would be too much for
detectives as they are at present constituted.
We demand, however, that the best intelli-
gence the detective force can command be
brought to bear in hunting down this woman
without delay. Her description should be
widely published, together with her name and
such pieces of her history as have been
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