The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-27

Conspiracy and cruelty have marked
every step of the march to death of
Spain's Latin civilization in all lands.
Philip and Alva have been the typical
leaders, their successors differing from
them in calibre, but not In character.
although Spain once owned this
entire hemisphere, and was the most
powerful nation on the earth, to-day,
In the western world, she holds only in
the grasp of her cruel hand, already
struck with paralysis, Porto Rico and
unhappy Cuba. She has always been
undeviatingly consistent in one course
of action; she has, with perverse uni
formity, broken her promises to all of
her colonies for enlarged liberty. Our
inheritance from Spain was African
slavery.
THE INDICTMENT
EXpel Spain From Cuba.
y 1--WE believe that the following facts
constitute an indictment demanding
the expulsion of Spanish rule from
Cuba:
First. The destruction for many
years of commercial interests of the
United States, already making an in
voice of hundreds of millions of treas
ure. "=.
Second It's gross inso1ence in search
ing and the detention of our merchant
men ships on the high seas and repu-
diation of claims for restitution.
Third. Its recent cowardly insult to
our honored president by it's repre-
+1I
Fourth. It's trivial and pertidious
treatment of international diplomatic
relations.
Fifth. It's requiring the; United
States, in obedience to humiliating
treaty obligations, to continually police
the seas to prevent the extension of
assistance to struggling patriots seek
ing aid, and who have a right to en-
deavor to enjoy the blessings of liberty
and free institutions
Sixth It's criminally permissive, If
not ordered, destruction of the United
States battle-ship Maine, with the loss
of the lives of two hundred and sixty
American defenders.
Seventh. It's barbarity and inhuman-
ity in the methods of warfare, with its
treacherous murder of men and Amer
lean citizens; it's herding and starving
of the aged and infirr1, women, chill
dren and infants to the extent of near
ly half million in number, it's ingen-
ious and exterminating tortures in ev-
cry variety of form Of a people it has
neither the courage, ability nor the
vigor to conquer
Eighth. It's sacriligious pretext of
claiming to be Christian nation.
Ninth. It's prostitution of the moral
sense of our citizens by obliging them
for years to look upon and become IA
miliar with fiendish barbarism so near
us that we can almost hear the cries
of it's victims.
Tenth. It's paralyzing power upon the
Christian civilization of the century by
holding in darkness denser than that
of the middle ages the Inhabitants of
the fairest island of the sea.
Christianity, humanity, honesty, vir-
tue, reason, liberty and Justice demand
the expulsion of this last consummate
specimen of the criminal cruelties of a
Latin civilization from the island
whose shores are touched by the same
tides that wash the coasts of this re-
public, the most powerful on the face
of the earth.
We believe that the imnovable con-
viction of the enlightened conscience
of the American people has decreed
that tranquility can never be restored
our doors system of government
which is the belated relic of barbarism
and which is an attempt to crowd the
God of justice and mercy out of hui
man history.
I'VE want no overtures from our
government for settlement of the
burning questions confronting us as a
nation, based upon propositions ema-
mating from Rome. Let efforts ema-
mating from that source exhaust them
selves in humanizing and civilizing
Spain. American institutions will
guard their own honor.
I'VE gratefully recognize the fact
that in the face of the issues confront
ing us, the spirit of nationality in con-
gress, in commercial bodies, in reli-
gious assemblies, is asserting itself
with enthusiastic unanimity, and that
partisanship, sectionalism and sectari-
anism are fused by the furnace heat of
patriotism into Amerfcanism
while it is not our province to de-
fine government policies, 1t is our right
to enunciate and defend principles.
While it is not our province to declare
war, it is our right to rebuke wicked
ness. While it is not our province to
dictate the actions of men, it is our
right to bring the claims of righteous
ness to bear upon their consciences.
While it is not our province to legis-
late, it is our right to promote justice
and protest against oppression. While
it is not our province to arouse the
passions of men, it is our right to in
spire hot indignation against con-
scienceless cruelty.
''In this present crisis it is the reIa-
lions of our republic to civil and reli-
gious liberties, to the right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness of
our Cuban fellowmen, to the humani-
ties of Christian civilization, to self-re-
specting dignity and nationality. We
remember and subscribe to the notable
utterances of President Mckinley,
that war will not be declared except
for a cause that all the people of the
United States and all the European
nations and God Almighty will ap-
prove