The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-02-27

Russian government becomes a will
o-whisp, here today and gone tomor-
row. hence Cleveland should recall
our minister. A chief executive ot d
nation posing before the world as
the champion Of liberty Cleveland
will not 50 much MS extend moral
support to men fghting at our very
doors for the blessed boon Of free
dom. Government cruisers patrol
our coast topreveut Americangdoing
for the Cubans what brave Goreig-
ners did for us when in revolt against
a nilder dosp0tlsm-to i'm prison tho
Tom Paiues who cry, Where liberty
IS not, there is my countryl Inter
national comfy, we arc told, de-
mands that we stand with folded
hands and sec war Of extermination
waged upon chivalric people forno
other crime than following the exam-
pie Of our fathers and declaring the
truth to be self-cyident that all men
are created free and equal But
perhaps we should not cltcise Pres
ldent Cleveland. To porrine in
tellect II msy appear eminentk -S.zr..
per that Weyler should rs-sT,.es : -; S. =
nelhonse Of we sf sfs,-asiGis%e w VA a char
han''s'll 3lhet StFS0a Il It's wretched in
oea ssTHecline to be longer rob-
i.ssc,.ZS,I6ecause four centuries ago the
I,ee1and was discovered by an Ita-
Ian adventurcr while nyiag the
Spanish flag. We cannot transform
a poker into philosopher by calling
It Plato, nor make a statesman of n
tub Of offal by electing it president.
Ihe fault is with the people, who set
aside those brainy patriots, Blaine
and Ben Harrison, for llis physical
Daniel Lambert, moral degenerate
and intellectual abnormalty. And
mere we are--up to the belt in the
financial bogs, holding the bot end
OF new trenty with our ancient enc
my, hoodooed ny Mark Hanna and
conniying Al theSpanish atrociclies in
ek4ubal We richly deserve our dis
tfess and dishonor, for It IS written
The wise shall inherit glory, but
shame shall be promotion of fools I"
We could scarce expect man who
employed a substitute in war and
a Bayard in peace TO have aught
in common with those who conse
crate their lives TO the cause Of free
dom but IL doth amaze me much In
see Americans boasting Revolution
ary ancestry espouslng the cause OF
the oppressor. One can scarce pick
up a daily paper without finding
some stall-fed burrQ Of the w. G.
Moore breed referring to the Cuban
insurgents as 'foot-racers - vet that
was what tue British called Washing
ton and Greene. was the term an
piled TO Sumter and Marion by COL
onel Tarlcton. The Cu6ans are
lighting then oppressors exactly az
we fought ours. Not strong enough
TO meet the enemy IN a pitched bat
tie, they must wear him out with
marches and counter-marcbe with
feints and forays, and retreat when
need be to painless swamps and
mountain Businesses. The Cubaps
are fighting the Spanish soldiery much
as the Partaian cavalry did the leo
ions OF Rome, and apparently with
the same effect. BY Fabian tactics
rather than by force Of arms we won
our freedom. We are accustomed
TO think Of Washington az plavjn0
Samson 70 Brilaln's king Of beasts.
but he did nothing OF the kind. Ue
rade the brute wear its feet 10 a
trazzle in an effort TO flesh It's fanes
instead OF tearing its jaws apart he
tled knots in bis tail. He boldtv
attacked and clubbed II when able.
out rom start to finish the reyolu-
llon may be classed as "a running
fight. That Americans should a.
clare against Cuban autonomy HsT
cals her people are not qualified for
self-2oyernmert, lis most re,narkable
lIhat was what the royaIlsts said of
the American rebels. 1t has been
The dishonest plea Of tyrants and
tbeir apoioglsts and parasites where
ever anu whenever people has
reyolted against the monstrous doc
trine of divine right. How manv
centuries Of Spanish misrulc will {,
/ require to qualify the Cubaps for the
task of constructing an UtoDia in
which McKinleYs will ever reign and
progress and prosperity never end3
How long will it require for men IiIre
Weyler to teach them mercy? And
who is TO determine when, under he
tuition Of cruel Bourbons, thew have
attainsd TO the nine beatitndea ara
may be trusted TO paddle their own
canoe? This class Of dunderbeads
is not peculiar to our day More
than seventy years ago Macaulay said
Many politicians of our time are
10 the habit Of laying il down a. n
stlfeyident proposition, that no peo-
pie are to be free TIL they are fit ID nse
their freedom. The maxim IS worthy
Of the fool In the old story. who r..
solved not to go into the water until
he had learnt to swim. If men are
to wait for liberty till they become
wise and good in slavery, thew may
indeed wait forever"