The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-08
AS TO HUMANITARIAN GROUND.
Reasons Advanced Why the United States
should Hold Its Hand.

. Intervention upon humanitarian
grounds has been frequently suggested.
and has not failed to receive my most
anxious and earnest consideration. But
should such a step be now taken when
II is apparent that a hopeful change has
supervened in the policy of Spain to-
ward Cuba? A new government has
taken office in the mother country. 1t
is pledged in advance to the declaration
that all the effort in the world cannot
suffice 10 maintain peace in cuba by
the bayonet: that vague promises OF re-
form after subiugation afford no solu-
ton OF the insular problem: that with
a substitution of commanders must
come a change of the past system OF
warfare for one in harmony with
new policy which shall no longer sim
TO drive the Cubans TO the horrible al
tentative of taking to the thicket or
succumbing in misery" that reforms
must be instituted in accordance with
the needs and circumstances of the
time, and that these reforms, while de-
| signed to give full autonomy to the col
| ony and to create virtual entity ana
seIf-controlled administration, shall yet
assert and affirm the sovereignty OF
| Spain by just distribution OF powers
and burdens upon basis OF mutual
| interest untainted by methods OF self
| ish expediency.
| The first acts Of the new government
| lie in these honorable paths. The pol
! icy of cruel rapine and determination
| that SO long shocked the universal SEN
| timent of humanity has been reversed.
| Under the new military commander a
| broad clernency is proffered. Measures
| save already been set on foot to relieve
| the horrors of starvation. The power OF
| the Spanish armies, 1t Is asserted, Is to
be used not to spread ruin and desola-
| ton. but to protect the resumption OF
| re nd M N
| ductiye industries. That past methods
| are futile to force a peace by subJuga-
tion is freely admitted, and that ruin
| without Cancellation must inevitably TAI
70 win for Spain the fidelity of con
tented dependency.
DEGREES in application OF the fore
shadowed reforms have already beer
nromulgated The full text of these
DEGREES has not been received, but a:
| furnished in a Geographic summar,
from our minister are: 1.-THE presiden
here summarizes the scheme OF auton
omy. which has been already widel!
printed in the press.] That the govern
ment of Sagasta has entered upon
course from which recession with mono
ia impossible can hardly be questioned
that in the few weeks that 1t has ex
. | ieted II has made earnest of the SINGER
ity of it's professions is undeniable.
shall not impugn its sincerely, no
| should tmp2uenCe De suhelcu " tiii
barrass il in the task II has undertaken
II is honestly due TO Spain and TO on
friendly relations with Spain that sh
should be given a reasonable chance
realize her expectations and to prov
, the asserted efficacy Of the new orde
! of things to which she stands irrevoca
bly committed. She has recalled tn
| commander whose brutal orders IN
: tanned the American mind and shocke
, the civilized world. She has modife
: the horrible order Of concentration, an
+, he's undertaken to care for the helple:
ard permit those who desire TO resun
!, the cultivation OF their fields TO do s
and assurss Of them of the protectio
/. Of the Spanish government In their Law
= ful occupations. She has just RELEASE
the Competitor prisoners heretofo
ssnterceG TO death, and who have bee
3 the subject Of repeated diplomatic CO
!. reopondauce during both this and Il
4 nreceding administration.
. Not a single American citizen - nc
, In arrest or confinement In Cuba
. whom this government has any know
= sdro. The near future will dsmonstra
whether the Indispensable condition
!: q righteous peace. Just alike to Tie z
y bans and to Spain. ~ well a. eouitat
!. 70 our interests 20 intimately invoiv