The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-07-06

undone. What is 1t to thy Sery-
ants, o, Lord, that Cuba do not
sink beneath the tyrant's sword,
and Americans are robbed, in
suited and slaughtered almost
within call of their native coast
At any cost to others preserve
US in our gains, for we are the
people. All this we have the
nerve to ask in Jesus name"
Christ once scourged a less
shameless gang of boodlers from
his Fathers temple with a whip
of cords. One can but marvel
that the writhen bolts of God re-
buked not their horrid blasph-
envy. That men calling them
selves Americans could thus in
woke high heaven to fasten eter-
nal infamy upon their country's
flag, and decree that the savage
slaughter of innocents should
continue that they might make a
little money, seems dreadful
nightmare; but there stands the
testimony in the stock reports
the daily press. Blood against
Doodle Women and children to
be sacrificed by hetacombs and
nations honor sullied, that the
aqueous bonds of some railway
swindle may not get squeezed !!
Has the God of the fatherless re-
signed his charge to Mammon,
the foulest spirit in all the great
hierarchy of hell ? In this, the
CLOSING decade of the Nineteenth
century, does Christian nation,
boasting itself the sum and crown
of things, make the children of
men pass through the fire of
Moloch ? Have we become so
debased by the goddess passion
greed that religion itself is but
an unholy lust for gain Must
Justice sheathe her sword and
Mercy be exercised from the
hearts of men at the command of
money ? Is selfshness trans
forming the national soul into a
Sahara ? Look upon this crowd
of well-fed gamblers, these legal
| lied buccaneers agonizing with
| God for ganin, then upon the
wretched Cubans who, from amid
the thick .strewn graves of their
dead, their ruined homes, their
broken alters and shattered fanes,
are pleading with the God Of
battles to interpose Columbia
seven-fold shield between them
! and their savage oppressors
Contemplate these self-seekins
pharisees who prrttle of ling
oes" and "ruin business" ther
turn to the distracted mother
whose daughters are despoileC
before her face, her sons sho
down for daring to love the lanC
of their birth, her starving bab'
: vainly tugging at the empty
! breast One word from this
nation-a word that should hav,
been spoken long ago-and thu
i bloody curse is lifted from Cub;
) forever. But no; we must no
even concede her right to battl'
for her own freedom lest we of
: fend her savage prosecutor ant
! and entail the loss of ha'penc,
on people who ought to be in thu
: penitentiary. We must not pro
. tect our own citizens ON tn,
island lest we cause a fall il
) speculative futures. Uncl
) Sam must stand before the Corte
hat in hand and humbly beg per
mission to feed Americans bein,
starved to death by the Spanish
; butcher. We send special com
7 missioners to investigate tn
{ murder of Americans-whel
!. Spain permits; and the report
/ of our consuls cannot be mad
t public lest they be shot or i'm
= prisoned for telling the truth
|. Cleveland Investigated the Span
ish atrocities and learned enougl
t thrice over to justify him i
hanging Weyler higher tina
: Hannah and kicking the last n