The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-22
Bully Ea9ie
NJ. n. MURDOCH. Editor.
PAN AMERICAN.


Senator Thurston may be a railroad
attorney, but he is n statesman; he
may be politician, but he is patriot.
No other country is at once so jealous
and yet so conservative as the United
States Of America. As people we are
given too much to talk, too little to &C.
ton. except in schemes involving mon
ey-making. In national and In in inter-
national affairs we are too much inclln-
ed to elbow" Any other country situ-
ated as are the United States. with ref
erence to Cuba, would have had one or
more Of its great idle men-of-war SHIPS
anchored off Havana. The dereliction
of Cleveland's administration is past
comprehension. American citizens In
Cuba have lost millions of property and
many American lives have been sacri-
feed through the cowardice OF the last
administration or through something
worse Even in the debate Of day before
yesterday there was the reiterated ex-
History proves that the world was
made for war. But even If it was not.
the law Of self-defense still holds good
Spain has been numbering Americans
and destroying American property for
two years, and all the while there has
only come the sycophantic whine Of
No NJ
war with Spain. Spain can't whip any
thing. She mas been unable 10 put
down what she is pleased to term an
instruction among her half-breed sub
jects in Cuba The same is true of the
uprising in the Philippine Islands. Eu-
rope has its hands full Of Greece and
Turkey just now. and il Spain would
rather chance a fight with the United
States than do right by the people of
Cuba, this country ought to welcome
such a war. We do not want TO buy
Cuba and a war with Spain can never
result In forcing such a purchase. Cuba
should be freed without the price of
an indemnity 10 Spain. After she Is
free she can seek annexation to this
country or remain independent, as her
people may determine. Yet sooner or
later all the West Indies must be allied
to this nation in some distinctive way.
AS the dominant power of this half, or
side Of the globe, we cannot afford to
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the Sandwich Islands.
But the United States senate has at
last taken the step it should have
taken many months ago. Now let the
house act, and act promptly In the
mean time President McKinley's spe-
cial envoy TO Cuba Will have reported
and he will be ready TO execute If all
Europe is TO be Immediately involved
in struggle over the eastern middle,
then war between the United States
and Spain is ali that is necessary for a
worldwide war. in which event the
United States would, as a result of her
hand in map-making. include as her
share the entire continent of North
America and adjacent islands.
The dispatches tell us that President |
McKinley's next step will be TO ascer-
tain, through our consuls. the value Of |
American properties which have been |
destroyed and then to demand of Spain |
a full Naturalization In the event of |
Spain declining responsibility for these |
acts, or admits her inability to make |
good these great losses, then will come |
the proclamation of Intervention and |
recognition of Cuba's belligerent rights. |
This, in turn, practically means the
annexation Of Cuba.