The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-10
CONDEMNED BY IFS FRIENDS.

We need not go outside Of Repub-
ican authorities, We need not even look
back to the files of papers issued at
the time when Mr.. Cleveland was pres
ident, to find the most scathing YER
dict, passed by Republicans them
selves, upon the Cuban policy of Mr..
Mckinley. We find in the MINNEAPOLIS
Tribune of Wednesday morning two ar
ticles published side by side, one emit
tied THE President and Cuba" and
the other, more Spanish Barbarism."
The latter sums up briefly the awful
work of starvation at the point of the
bayonet that is now going forward rap
idly in Cuba. 1t repeats what the
q o b e has already said, that there
are some hundreds Of thousands of
peaceful and unoffending people shut
up IN military camps without food, and
shot down if they pass the dead line.
Commenting on this, the Tribune says:
The policy Of the Unspeakable Turk in Ar
menia was more humane than this for tha
Turks massacred their victims at once while
SLOW and painful process of starvation
The other article informs US that
there is no possibility that President
Mckinley will take immediate or rad
ical action with regard to Cuba. He
has gone on junket down to the
Nashville exposition, and will not re-
turn for week. Besides that, he is
desperately anxious that nothing
should interfere with the progress oF
his beautiful tariff bill. He is afraid
to speak for humanity and American
ism, lest the accumulat ton of Doodle
might stop. Again we quote the
Tribune:
he Will undoubtedly exhaust every possible
diplomatic resource before he will invite hos
tilities with Spain by interfering with her
Cuban policy; and even should he deem such
interference necessary we do not believe he
would take any open steps in that direction
before the extra session gets through with the
tariff measure. One thing at time is his
motto.
Here VIC nave an open and unapolo-
getic confession that the solicitude ex-
hibited for Cuba wnen a Democratic
administration was in power was
miserable pretense The situation now
is incomparably more aggravated and
calls more imperatively for instant ac
tlon than then At that time our sym
Path1es were wrought upon merely in
behalf Of a brave people struggling for
their liberty. Now we have to con-
template innocent and helpless non
combatants being put to death by
thousands If ever there was a time
when action could not be delayed. if is
now. An army in the field may hold
its own in a country like Cuba indef-
nitely. 1t does not take long to starve
women and children to death.
Yet, while this diabolicaI work is
going on, with all the facts at our COM
mand, Mr.. Mckinley does not, see fit to
do anything, because he is afraid Of the
| consequences. He wants a week to
think it over. And, above all things.
he does not want the tariff bill delayed
ny q minute. Better That q quarter of
a million Of unhappy wretches should
perish by the torments of hunger. or at
the bloody hands Of Weyler's butchers,
than that this scheme for robbing our
own people should have to wait.
This is no imaginary case, as the
Tribune itself, and every other reputa
BILE authority is obliged to confess.
The atrocities Of the Turk in Armenia
were not to be compared with what is
actually being done today in Cuba. Our
Republican patriots have now full DOW
| er to act. They could stop this devil
ish work by the more dispatch Of a
few war vessels to Havana and a cable
message to Madrid. They refuse to do
it and take the responsibility. The in
fanny of the Cuban situation is now
shared equally by us with Spain.
The st. Paul G o b which anplaudad
Grover Cleveland's keep-hands- off Cuban pol-
icy, is very much exercised because President
Mckinley and Tom Reed do not declare war
against Spain. If Cleveland was still presi-
dent the ODE would be consistent-St
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