The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-30
A SINGULAR SILENCE.

L utliHS the topics about which our
Republican editorial brethren have agi-
tated their brains during the year past
onto panorama and passing them in
review, one is struck with the entire
disappearance of some of them over
which they ragged and which they
viewed with alarm or pointed to
with pride" Most striking of them is
the topic relating to Cuba and the
relations the United States should as
sumo towards that unhappy island, or
lts people. Gaze upon the moving sheet
as 1t unfolds the topics that formed the
Alaln feature of editorial discussion in
republican papers less than a year
ago. Day after day, through all pos
slole changes, there rang appeals to
human sympathies, coupled with fierce
accommodations Of the administration
that could look calmly on while such
pfutaIties were being committed in the
name of civilized warfare. See the
gushing approvals of the truculent
morgan, supporting with his fierce eIo-
the discussions whether there should
De simply recognition of .belligerency
OF OF independence, and the unconcern
with which the probabilities of war
with Spain as a result of either action
were discussed.
Ihen come the editorials in which
the imprisoned editor gave up in
despair all hopes Of anything being
accomplished for bleeding and crucified
ouoa as long as a cowardly, liberty
hdllng administration remained In con-
trol. Wait until after the 4tb of
ndrch, and a man who was a soldier
while Cleveland was a hanging sheriff
ooiies INTO control, and then Liberty
VIII nave defender worthy of her
cause one who will not truckIe to tho
naughty Castilian nor keep peace at
the expense Of honor. All these ond
iiloFe the panorama presents to us as
II uiiroIls. With the passing of one and
the incoming Of another administra-
tloh there comes a distinct change
Ihefe are editorials discussing minors
OF what this new administration is 90
ing TO 90; the special ENJOYS it is 60
Ing to send to Cuba, the dispatches If
IS sending to the court of Spain. the
character of the minister who is IN
represent US there. The fierceness dies
out' there are no more imperious de-
mands, and. soon Cuba drops irto
OBLIVION. relieved only by the SPAS
modlc spurts of the New York Sun
winch once a fortnight or so has some
thlng to say about Weyler.
one might conclude, for all that he
can learn from the editorial columns
OF our contemporaries, that the war in
Cuba ended soon after McKinley's in
auguration, and that peace reigns
there. and prosperity is preparing to
al1ght upon the desolated island Save
for their news columns, which now
and then contain some note about
Weyler, no one would know that the
same cruel war that so stirred their
hearts and wagged their pencils a few
months ago is still in progress: cruel
ties as rife, freedom still bleeding at
every pore. ao-A And wherefore this sin
gular5 silence {? If the war'cthere was
SO terrible a thing when Mr.. Cleveland
sat in the chair. of responsibility why
is it, not just as horrifying now that
Mr.. Mckinley sits there? If it must
be suppressed in the name of a COM
mon humanity, regardless of all con-
siderations of annexation, when Mr..
Cleveland would have the SURPRISING
to do, why is it not just as necessary
now when Mr.. Mckinley will have it
to do? Can it be that all that fine fury
was only assumed? Was all that viz
tuous indigna ton only vulgar red fire?
Is war in Cuba only a thing to be de-
nounced, reprobated and stopped when
there is a Democratic administration.
but to be allowed to proceed with no
more attention than is given to a re-
volt in Costa Rica when a Republican
administration succeeds?