St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-29
WILL NOT BE RESTRAINED.

While it Is true beyond question that
the resolutions on the Cuban situation
advanced in the house of representa-
tives are nothing more nor less than q
part of the game Of politics, being an
attempt by the Republicans there to
offset the popularity Of President
CIeveland's foreign policy, it is also
true that the people of the United
States will not be restrained much
longer from taking a hand in the
a right to be full Of interest and SYM
pathy with a people struggling as
bravely as these have done for freedom
from tyranny that has grown unbear-
able. They have failed to take open
action heretofore out of regard for the
obligations laid upon us as nation
not to consent to any overt act against
q friendly government; but the last
thread by which our forbearance was
bound is likely to be snapped by the
policy and the proclamations Of Gen.
Weyler, who is now conducting the
Spanish campaign in Cuba. The SEN
ate resolutions were adopted yester-
day by a vote of 81 to g. We say
without hesitation, regardless Of the
position of parties on this matter, hav-
Ing fully in mind all the momentous
consequences that may follow, and i'm
PEELED only by q sense of what we
owe to ourselves as American citizens,
which the existence of our own country
is a monument, that the time is drawing
close when the United States ought to
and must interfere. This is a serious
Credible reports show that Gen. Wey-
Ter has started in we'll to earn his
reputation as a butcher. In a recent
engagement, wherein it was announced
that the insurgents had been defeated
and large number Of them slain, it is
now said that practically the whole of
the victims were peaceable citizens. cut
down by the Spanish soldiery without
offense on their part, but as a begin
ming Of the reign of terror which it is
Gen. Weyler's policy to spread through
out the island. Furthermore, he has
now issued his long-expected procla-
NATION to the insurgents of Cuba. He
offers immunity to those who within
fifteen days, shall surrender themselves
this the threat that small bands of in
surgents in those provinces which do
not surrender within the given period
will, at it's expiration, be treated as
bandits" If this is his definite deter
animation and his policy, as there is
every reason to believe it to be. then
the duty Of the United States in the
premises is as clear as was that of
england in the case Of Armenia Let
lus at least not bring upon ourselves
the awful reproach and responsibility
which the people Of Great Britain are
carrying today in the continued slaugh-
ter of thousands of the miserable and
defenseless wretches whom she has
abandoned to the cruel mercies of the
Turk.
1t is proposed by the Spanish to es-
tablish at our doors, within q short
distance Of the peace and liberty along
our Southern coast, a slaughter pen as
horrible as that which the Turk has
made of Armenia. Shall we, ought we.
dare we permit this infamy to be con-
summated? We know exactly what 1t
means to say that men shall be treated
as bandits. It means that the patriots
who have taken up arms in Cuba, un-
less they recant their professions of
devotion to liberty and abandon their
island to the insolence and greed of
the Spaniard, and bid farewell forever
more to their hope of freedom, shall be
shot on sight wherever found, shall be
strung up to the nearest tree If they
surrender themselves, shall be placed
outside the pale of the law and exter-
as wild beasts This is not