The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-12-25
PEACE At ANY PRICE.

We have in the United States an elc
ment which is always in deadly fear of
any foreign war. They are always on the
side of any foreign Government which
engages in Il controversy with ours. They
never feel any interest in the merits of
the controversy; they only know that it
may disturb the stock market if continued
and they are always in favor of an immc-
date yielding by this Government to
whatever may be the foreign de
mand
The administration of Mr.. Cleveland
faithfully represents this element 1t has
given its hearty support any and every
pretension of whatever character set up
by any foreign Government against the
United States. Its policy of secretly
attempting the restoration of the Hawaiian
monarchy was merely subservcable to
British interests there. The jugglery i'll
| Nicaragua, under which Great Britain
attempted to secure Il foothold under the
thin disguise of enforcing alleged treaty
rights of Mosquito Indians, is still in
working order-the latest British utter
ance being IA reservation of the question.
| British invasion and conquest in Venezuela
50 loudly protested against last winter by
our President, is now apparently support
| ed by him, Lord Salisbury graciously Civ
ing Secretary Olney the credit of devils
| ing the trick by Venezuela is to be dismem
| bered. In Alaska British settlements
| are fourshing which are believed to be
on our side of the boundary line, and no
| energy is being shown by our Govern
| ment in locating the line. Spain is desc
lating Cuba, numbering its inhabitants
| instead of making war on armed men,
and reSOrting to the most savage method
| ever known among barbarians. The
President says that Spain has eXtermlna
| ton Of the people and the destruction Of
the soil as her only policy, an that she
maintains herself in but a small portion Of
the sland and that even there her rule
| is chiefly military, the civil government
| being ''imperfect." But he coddlcs with
| Spain, and dealt so gently with her in his
message that the pleasing assurance comes
that the Spanish Premier looks upon him
as the STEADY FREUD of Spain
Mr.. Cleveland in his zeal for Spain, has
| interferred with the clear right of citizens
| of the United States to sell and transport
| arms: he has made the United States an
! informer and a spy in the Spanish service
| and made our naval and revenue vessels
bloodhounds of the sea to waylay lawful
voyagers who were engaged in lawful
trade that might aid the Cuban patriots.
The law of nations on the subject of the
sale and shipment Of arms to insurgents,
and of the right to carry unarmed recuits
| to them, was laid down by Secretary Fish
is note to the Spanish Government in
| 1874, when rebellion against Spanish
rule was being waycd in Cuba. He
said
"A friendly Government violates no
duty of good neighborhood in allowing
the free sales of arms and munition of
war to all persons, to insurgent as we'll as
the regularly constituted authorities: and
such arms and munitions, by whichever
party purchased, may be carried in vessels
on the high seas without liability to qucs-
ton from any other party. In like man
ncr, the vessels may freely carry I'M
armed passengers even though known to
be insurgents, without therby rendering
the Government which allows it liable to
charge of violating its international
duties. But if such passengers should be
armed and proceed to the scene of the
instruction as an organized body which
might be capable of levying war, they con
stitute Il hostile expedition, which may
not be knowingly allowed without a vio-
lation of international obligations'
This rule was not disputed by Spain,
and it is the doctrine maintained in our
Courts. But it has been ignored by our
Government, which has undertaken to
prevent the exercise by our citizens of the
rights named
Mr.. Cleveland will do whatever Spain
requires of him in relation to Cuba He
is as much under the direction of the
Spanish crown as is the butcher Weyler
himself. The United States is safe against
any war with Spain so long as the present
Administration is in power If Spain, or
any other nation, should Smite the United
States on the one cheek Mr.. Cleveland
would turn the other Also and the dove
of peace would nestle in the White House
Better that Uncle Sam should submit to
blows rather than that the stock market
should suffer.-CincinnMi Enquirer.