The Portland daily press., 1896-05-23
ONE SENSIBLE sPANlA RD.
An EDITORS Tribute to the Power of the
United States.

The following from the Madrid Nuevo
Regimmen of recent date speaks for
itself:
ut is hard to understand how public
opinion can be SO easily deceived. There
are many here who believe that it woul d
be simple thing for US to defeat the
United States in q war. They believe
that country is only republic of mer-
chants. They believe that she cannot
light with European powers. What a
mlstakel America was not a republic
yet when she first defeated England.
Thirty years later she declared war with
England again and compelled her to sign
an honorable peace, notwithstanding she
saw the English burning tho capitol at
Washington. When, after half q ceutr y
OF pence, her inhabitants were divided
about the slavery question and she had
to light with her own sons, the world
was amazed at the size of her armies, at
her battles and ut her formidable en-
gines of war. 1t was then that she pro-
duced the Monitor. On the Sth and 9Th
Of March, 1862, in Hampton Roads, in
sight OF Fortress Monroe, she gave to the
world the spectacle of a naval combat
such as had mover been Witnessed before
between two bnrtleships, the like of
Which, also, had never been seen before,
namely, the Merrimac and the Monitor
of Ericsson.
Against England America is always
powerful. In 1916 she compelled England
to give up part of Oregon. In 1871 Eng
land bad to indemnify her for the dam
age done by the Alabama and other
cruisers built in British ports for the
enemies of the republic. Recently she
has compelled England to consent to her
interference in the quarrel about the
boundaries of Guiana and Venezuela.
On tina American continent how often
has she acted energeticaily with Europc's
opposition In 1876 she annexed Texas
to her territory. In 1915 she compelled
England to give Honduras the islands of
huatan. From 1868 to 1867 she openly
opposed the establishment of monarchy
in Mexico. She did not recognize Max
1miliGn even as constituted power. She
did not attempt to preserve neutrality.
She favored Juarez, and when the Em-
declined to listen to the requests of
France and Austria and Interfere to save
his life
Excepting England, there is no nation
IN Europe which dares now oppose in any
way the United States, at present more
powerful than ever. When she fought
against England the first time she had
not 1000, 600 inhabitants. The second
time she had more than s. DOC, GOO: TODAY
ste has $4,000, 600. Then she had nothing;
now she has strong naval force, and
she can put in arms at moments notice
millions of soldiers. Her regular army Is
small IN time of peace, $4,000 men, but
they reach to hundreds of thousands in
the organized militia of tho United
States.
''Th0 United States Is now a veal thy
nation, industrious, active, enterprising
and without fear of any undertaking, no
matter how reckless and impossible it
Looks. In war with Europe, if she
would display hundredfold the strength
she exhibited in tho war of the secession,
she could hardly be defeated. Mover shall
VIC advise Spain to declare war on the
United States Terms of peaceful ar.
are possible, and we should
exhaust them first.