The times., 1897-06-21

patriot heroes WIN tneH WIVES anu Chft-
dren, who once cried out to US for help,
but found their cry in vaini
The position OF one Senator In the Leytte
crowd who opposed the passage OF the
beIligerency resolution in the Senate, a
few weeks since, was indeed ridicUlously
sublirne. III substance it was this: Yes,
we see the big robber is pounding the poor
traveller to death, but we cannot righteoudy
interfere, because you see the victim is
naked-he has no clothes on his back-that
is no form OF goyernment-he is nomad
and naked at that. Let the robber go On
pounding hin, to death Hands off.
The philosophy of this grave Senator
must have been borrowed from old Dr.
Tcufeldsdrock, in 'Sartor Resartus, that
'clothes constitute the crittur! But
we say with Christ of Nazareth, the body
is more than raiment' Spain has robbed
the Cubans OF the republican ra1ment
they have long desired; and row because,
according to the priestly Serator, they are
not panoplied in governmental armo-, let
them perish. We must not Interfere.
Bnt the whole argument is d falsehoCd In
fact and fallacy in law. How fortunate
that the Levite contingency in the Senate
was so small a minorityl
'In few days we shall celebrate tie
121 st anniversary OF the Declaration Uf
Independence. IL viii quicken memories Of
the aid we had from across the sea, at
time when price was laid on every head
Of our fathers, and when they were in
peril of ,.eath from moment to moment
as rebels against an English king How
strange the story Of this century's events
During the coming week we. the children
of those patriotic sires, viii JOIN in the
world S laudation Of an English Queen, who
has been wiser i'll her generation than all
the English rulers who went before her.
Not that British power has been so pure,
with unstained innocence In every III
rection, foT we are all sinners before Col
none of our skirts are clean as 10 the
African and Indian, Sepoy and Chinaman-
though we have been trying to repent for
thirty years, so that on the whole, there
Is ample ground for the Victorian acclaims.
But as contTastcd with ali this where is
the crown of Spain today? What is that
power doing amid these sounds OF Jubila-
tion, the vide world round? Crushing her
| heel down upon the neck of a PROSTATE
colony and grinding her own kith and
kin to atoms beneath the millstone Of a
| merciless and inhuman war, and we, as a
great and powerful people, are standing
by with our hand in our pocket, and look
ing comp!scently at this horrible spectacle
without the sign Of motion to intervene
what VIII the world say OF u.s. what
win the muse OF history record against Us
If we prove faithless in this great dilemma?
God only knows God only can predict the
| consequences or measure tie results of
this shiDy-shalIying policy, on the part
OF this American republic, while We re-
fuse by the strong arm OF power To rectify
the disorders and abolish the red-handed
Tyranny which has dominated so long IN
that sorrow -freighted island.
''To all this the blood-suckers and specu-
| lators on change, and all the diletante
/ Ioiiing in the saloon OF every carpet knight
win cry out 'Jingoism,' jim goismi' and
with that sneer viii seek to stifle every
sentiment Of sympathy with our struggling
brethren, now wading in the smoke and
ravage. Of battle toward the longed-for
| god OF Cuban independence!
"Oh, am faint with shame and hunlilia-
tion when I think OF the selfishness aud
hell-fire greed of these rnoney-shavers and
fashionable diplomatic drones among
US, who are ready TO turn any corner,
| adopt any means, devise any methods, t.
| fatten on the miseries Of their feilOw-
meEi With not one fiber of human n brother
hood in them, the most patriotic appeals
/ find 10 response in their petrifisd and
/ selfish souls, Talk TO us of prudence ana
I discretion, of the difficulties and en-
/ harassments OF diplomacy, OF 'ehtangling
alliances and of the secrets OF cabinets
and courts, of the cost and eOnseque nee of
/ such an appeal to the arbitrament of the
| sword when whole race Of people is
/ being slaughtered and outraged, and
| Threatened with eXtermination by tyrant
whose infamy no language can depict.
| oh, have we not seen this bloody andawful
| drama over and over, and wept over the
woes OF the doomed people, succumbing tO
| the fate Of slaves, with the heel of the
oppressor grinding over them -Pola nd.
Hungary, Greece, Armenia-sad, ,sad me-
mentoes of the tyrant's cruel poweri
- And freedom shrieked as KosciuscO fell.
"When will this world be free of tyranny Y
and rong? When viii this republic put
| forth its arm of strength and say to this
| European arrogance of despotisfu. 'ProeIl, .
| procuI, esti profanir You shall no longer
| on this hemisphere repeat the atrocities
which blacken with shame the story of
! the past Rouse then, Americans, and
| let your voice be heard once more in The
! land till the prisons of yonder capital
| shall treinble with the echoes of indigna-
| ton, which the apathy OF our Government
inspiresl
II wish the coming Fourth of July might
| be devoted to the cause of the Cuban pa
triots all over the land; that trumpet and
| drum and ringing bells and laundering
cannon might utter one an-resounding
voice that Cuba shall be fTeei 1 wish that
the Queens jubilee might end In a Brit
ism movement for the Wind ndication of
Greece and the abolition of the unspeak-
able Turk 1t was only yesterday that ii
| conversation with a beloved friend whc
had not long since left a seat in the Sen
ate of the United States, he said in sub
stance this: There are two plague spots
on the globe that ought To be at once
wiped out--one by John Bull and one 10y
| Uncle sam-Turkey and Cuba. England
would do it If she could save the shekcl:
she has loaned to the merciless Turk. We
| have not even this lame excuse. We have
| in fact, no excuse at ALL
ssSpain, by her cruelties, has forfeited al
| right of recognition under the law of ma
tions; and if she cannot, as she does not.
keep her treaties with us, why do we hest
tate TO take the initiative and say tn her:
| Go out aud go away from this hemisphere
and 60 back to your own place on that
side of the sea where the God of nations
| has planted you; but you shall not con-
| tinue to plunder and rob and despoil tn,
! unhappy Cubans OF everything that is
| sacred to humanity. You shall not con
tinue to make it for them hell upon earthI