The herald., 1897-09-26
SPANISH
INIQUITY
Calls for Interference in
Cuban Affairs
ENGLISH EDITORS Comment
ON AMERICAS DUTY TOWARD
HUMANITY
If Our Constitution Prohibits Inter
ference the Constitution Should
Be Speedily Amended
associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-(Copyright, 1879
The Spectator, accepting as fact the
report that the United States has ad-
monished Spain, finds 1t difficult to think
that war can be averted, saying: Apart
from that pride and ignorance of conse-
quences prompting Spain, war is con-
sidered the best way out Of her difficult
ties. Were the government to propose
the abandonment Of Cuba in cold blood
it would simply mean handing over the
country to Don Carlos, 90 the govern
ment proposes to employ America as the
surgeon to do the necessary amputation,
which will alone prevent the Cuban gan
creme from spreading to the rest Of the
body polite"
After detailing Spain's iniquities In
Cuba. the Specta tor continues: ITO pro-
long the war would be a crime, and IL
America chooses to stop these hideous
cruelties all Englishmen should applaud
and refuse to inquire too narrowly into
the reasons which Influenced her states
men in putting presusre upon Spain"
Referring to the objection of pa tri-
otic Americans to the admission into
the union of Cuban and Hawaiianstates
and the consequent election of senators
by degraded populations" the Spectator
says: Americas duty Is to stop the long
agony Of Cuba, and II her constitution
does not admit of her doing so safely
the sooner she amends her constitution
go that she can hold her new acquisitions
on a different footing the better for her
and for humanity
ARMY INCREASE
It is evident from the tenor Of speech
of Lord Wolseley's. the commander-in-
chief Of the British forces, at Glasgow
on Thursday last, when the freedom Of
that city was conferred upon him, and
from remarks made by the parliament
ary secretary for the war office; Hon. w.
st. J. Broderic the same night, that the
government Is preparing scheme for
a considerable increase in the strength
Of the army, which will probably call
for the formation OF a dozen additional
battalions of infantry and proportion
ate addition of cavalry and artillery dur
ing the next session Of parliament.
The warnings have not been sounded
too soon. A telling instance Of the ar
tillery weakness Of Great Britain was
afforded at Aldershot on Thursday,
when the second battalion of the rifle
brigade left camp for tour of the colo
nial service. including sojourn at Van
couver. Though nominally full bat
talon, there were only slightly over 400
men. and the regiment will have to be
reinforced from the first battalion Of the
rifle brigade, which Is now on its way
home.
A MURDER EPIDEMIC
An epidemic Of murder, suicide and
outrage on women in London and its
vicinity Is unequaled since the days
Of Jack the Ripper" Daily for a week
past the public has been startled by the
announcement of some atrocious murder
or similar crime and the perpetrators
have all baffied the police and have es-
capped without, apparently, leaving a
clue to their identity.
The murder in a railway carriage of
Miss Camp in February last. the per-
petrator of the crime not having been
discovered, has been followed by an
other railroad tragedy, in which Mrs.
Bryan. the wife Of a DR.. Bryan, of
Northampton. has been killed under
circumstances pointing to murder, and
the Rev. DR.. Aubrey Price, a well-known
divine, was killed at his residence Mon
day. A little boy has been kidnapped
and murdered In the suburbs.
A rich, miserly woman has been found
cut to pieces at her residence. Bethnal
Green, and farmers daughter, Emma
Johnson, has been murdered at Windsor
under peculiarly atrocious circum-
stances. Her body was mutilated, strip
ped and thrown into the Thames. The
authors of all these outrages are still
at large and there seems to be no trace
Of them, although the murderer of
Emma Johnson is believed to be
maniac whose actual identity is not
known, but who for months past has
frightened and assaulted persons on
the road from Windsor to Maidenhead
and who has always managed to elude
capture.
MINOR MATTERS
The extent of the cricket craze here
firds evidence in the farewell banquet
given to Prince Ranjuitsinjhi, the pop
pular Indian cricketer, al Cambridge
on the evening Of his departure on a
cricketing tour to Australia, the 700
guests present, including the Mayor,
Aldermen and College Dors, and when
the Prince retired to his hotel, the vast
crowds of people assembled beneath his
window, called him out and cheered him
to the echo.
Queen Victoria will privately visit the
Marquis and Marchioness Of Salisbury
at Hatfield House about the middle. of
November. after the return Of the court
to Windsor.
Vanity Fair, commenting upon the joy
experienced by the Duchess of MARI
borough at giving birth to direct heir
to the Blenheim estate, says:
"Consuelo, who has been nearly off
her head with delight since the fear was
removed Of Lady Randolph Churchills
son succeeding to the dukedom, is rap
idly recovering and the family is maxi
Ing as much fuss as though an heir had
been born to the throne. They take care
that everything is put in the papers"
There le wide interest among oars.