The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-05-28
Let Them Fight it Out Now.

1t is probable that before long the
United States will intervene to stop the
war in Cuba. If it does, under the cir
cumstances us they present themselves,
the act will be Il more shameful one
deserving, of more condemnation than
was its refusal to raise a hand in pro-
test when Weyler was perpetrating his
most atrocious butcheries.
For be it known that the silence of
this government, which claims to be
one "of the people, for the people, and
by the people" when striker Cuba
needed friend the most, was because
Wall street did not find it to its inter
est that even the belligerancy of Cuba
should be recognized. There can be no
doubt that nine tenths of the people of
the United States are anxious that
Cuba should be aided in her struggle
for freedom, but the gold gamblers, the
trusts and the moneyed syndicates of
New York thought it to be against their
interest that even word of sympathy
should go out to stricken Cuba, and
consequently the voice of the people
was throttled. Weyler might butcher
wounded men and murder women and
children, and this great nation had to
stif1e her words of comfort to the OPP
pressed, because, forsooth, Wall street
. had so decreed it-Wal street that has
been as great curse to the country as
ever slavery was.
But now the attitude of Wall street
has changed. Its business interests
in other words its Shylock manipula
tions-are being injured by the contin-
uation of this war in Cuba. In another
column of the Bee it is stated that Au-
gust Belmont Il Co. and other repre-
sentative money-lending houses of New
York have petitioned the government
to put stop to the war, because OF the
money that is being lost to American
merchants, manufacturers, producers
and money lenders in Cuba.
We say, let them continue to lose
money. They excused if they did not
glory in the fiendish butcheries by
Weyler, just SO long as they believed
that the Spanish government wculG
throttle the Cuban rebellion by whole
sale massacres, and just so long as they
could coin money on top of money I'M
der the Weyler rul9. But when they
find the Spanish troops being every
where defeated, when they see the
Cubans about to gain the ultimate vic
tory over their brutal masters, then
they appeal to the United States to in
terfere and stop the war, not on behalf |
of civilization, not in the interests of |
humanity, but to save the only god of |
their idolatry, their money.
1t seems as though the Cubans do |
not now need the help of the United
States. 1t would appear that they
have the fight won without us. If that |
be SO, we hope and trust that not one
word of interference will be permitted
to go out, but that the Cubans will be
allowed to thrash the Spaniards so
thoroughly that the latter will never
forget it. Why should the United
States interfere now to stop the war
when the Cubans are whipping the
Spaniards, when it wo uld not lift up a
hand in protest as the Spanisrds were
butchering men, women and children?
Let Cuba alone and let her continue
to trounce the Spaniarda. If Wall
street is losing money, let that vampire
continue to lose it. She does not de-
serve any better fate.
If, after having ref used TO interfere
in the name of humanity because Wall
street asked her not to, this govern {
ment now tries to check the deserved
of the Spaniards in behalf
Of the almighty dollar--solely for the {
reason that Wall street pitiously begs {
her to do so--the United States will be {
deserving of even more contempt than I
she has so far drawn to herself Sacre- {
ncnto Bee.