Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The difference between the age of the
republican party and the age of Levi P.
Morton is just thirtytwo years, and
there are people who believe that the
party may become the old mans darling.
Albany Argus.
Sympathy with Cuba in its efforts to
throw off the Spanish yoke has been I'M
mistakably avowed and congress in this
unquestionably voices the sentiment of
the American people.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer, Dem.
SPANS time has come. No nation has
or could have been more forbearing than
the United States, but civilized people
cannot consistently tolerate continuing
series of atrocities at their very threSh-
old.-Baltimore American, Rep.
If fourteenth century methods of war;
fare are to be undertaken by Spain this
nation cannot allow delicate legal points
TO stand in the way of acting on behalf
of civilization and demanding fair treat
ment for Cuba.-Chicdgo Record, Ind
The adoption of these resolutions will
be- the wisest and most sincere act which
this congress has yet put to it's credit
They contain neither buncombe nor par
tisanship; they are consistently support
ed by all parties alike.-Boston Post,
Dem.
The demand of Spain that the United
States should disavow the action of the
of our form of government. Spain is
probably not aware that even the people
of the United States cannot get rid of the
senate without a great deal of trouble
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The way has been opened for the estab-
lishment of a republic in the gem of the
Antilles and the dissolution of Spanish
power too long maintained there. Free
Cuba is not now a remote dream. 1t is
almost a present actually, and that not
alone through the courage of her sons,
but also by the wise action of the United
States, and that taken as legitimately as
Observation-Disclosures Post-Express
AS matter of fact, 1t is the nations of
shopkeepers that are to be feared. 1t
was the Dutch traders who Inundated
England on the sea. 1t was the general
of The English shopkeepers who organ
lied the campaign that sent Napoleon to
ST. Helena. 1t was the American traders
who Inundated the colonial pride of
Great Britain when this United States
became the germ of the greatest republic
| that this world has known. The trouble
about the nations of traders Is that they
have the men and the sinews of war;
Spain has neither.-New York Sun, Dem.
THE time may come when this govern
ment will feel called upon to intervene
between Spain and her revolted subjects
| In Cuba, but that time is not now. The
| Insurgents in whose behalf the rights of
belligerency are invoked have not the
| semblance of a civil government. They
have neither an executive nor legisla-
| tdre; neither courts nor civil magistrates,
nor even the possession of the sma Hest
village for capital. In such conditions
o. recognition of the Cuban insurgents
as a belligerent power could have no JUS
| Observation-Disclosures Record.
They have degraded the senate of the
| United States until 1t has no more moral
authority than a Tammany primary,
Though 1t can do so much more mischief.
Their performance already constitutes a
national scandal and a national danger,
and it is irrevocable. What they did not
| foresee is what has happened to them.
and that is that the prospectors and
boomers in the senate should revolt
against the party and insist upon party
programme that would make the success
| OF the party entirely hopeless in the set
! tied and civilized parts Of the country
New York TimeA