The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-05

promote prosperity and extend happi-
ness. The United States is the strong
est country in the world It's isolation,
it's defense of 5000 miles of ocean, it's
ten million available soldiers; it's Wig
orous youth, its marshall spirit and it's
exhaustless wealth and resources
make the republic the ideal expression
of power. Its is a power that has been
created by peace and civilization. 1t is
a power controlled by intelligence, pat
riotism and Christianity. The majes-
ty of civilized power was never better
illustrated than in the attitude of the
United States in the present crisis. The
nation may be easily moved to pass
ionate excitement; it may rise to great
heights of intensity and enthusiasm,
but the greater the peril the nobler it's
calm. Captain Singsbee, barely extri-
eating himself from the perils Of the
explosion and the ruins of his ship, had
every incentive for harsh language and
passionate accusation, but, like the
true American sailor that he is
calmest when the danger is greatest,
he penned the message to his country,
Suspend your Judgment until you
know the facts President Mckinley,
feeling behind him an uprising which
threatened to sweep the country into
war, right or wrong, said to the peo-
pie, Suspend your judgment until you
know the facts" And congress and
the people, follow with the same calm
ness the investigation and await the
verdict of the court of inquiry.
Our sympathies are with the Cubans
who are struggling for liberty as our
sympathies are with every people seek
ing to govern themselves. But with
sympathy and sorrow and anger the
dominant emotions of the hour, the
confidence of the nation is firm in it's
president and it's judgment is unmov-
ed by prejudice or passion.
One of the most dramatic situations
in our history was Garfield meeting
the maddened mob bent upon the MUIR
der and the spoliation of every sympa-
thizer of the south at the time of the
assassination of Lincoln and staying
their march and dispensing them to
their homes with the solemn admoni-
ton, God reigns and the republic at
Washington still lives" That message
of Garf1eld's is our lesson for to-day,
God reigns and the government at
Washington still lives" That govern
ment will protect our interests and
preserve our honor; that government
will find out the right, and, finding out
the right. will perform it; that govern
ment will do what is just to Spaniard,
to Cuban and to ourselves.
God grant that the result of the in
quiry will be the verdict which we all
want, and that is that the tragedy of
the Maine was not conspiracy, but an
accident. 1t would be a shock not only
| to us, but to the civilized world, If it
should prove otherwise. AS the days
roll by and the situation becomes clear
err whatever may be our feeling in re-
gard to the struggle in Cuba, we exon
crate brave nation from the crime of
assassination.
The president knows that at his call
| the people of the country stand ready
| to give him their lives and their for
| tunes. There is no limit to the men,
| no limit to the money, that are at his
command, if men and money should be
| deemed necessary for the national de-
Tense and the national honor. Our
uuty DIS pidln citiAeHo 10 performed Aoi
the present in sending to him this mes
sage on the one hand and on the other
| hand, as we do here tonight, in paying
sweet and loving tribute to the memory
| of the men who went down with the
| Maine, because they were there. to fight
| our battles if need be, and in contribut-
! ing as we may to make comfortable
those whom they loved and left behind
| among us.