The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-14
English Press Declares America Is
Headed For War.
NOW NO HOPE OF PEACE
CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS ARE
ssVIoLENT AND OFFENSIVE"
London Times Doubts Whether Con-
gress is Fit TO Deal With a Great
National Issue-The Pope Deeply
Affected By the Mutterings of
War-Powers Remain Neutral.

London, April 13.-The Times, COM
menting editorially this morning on the
resolutions submitted yesterday to con-
sress. says:
They embody demands which cannot
be addressed to a sovereign power
without rendering negotiations ard
compromise impossible. Even if they
do not amount in form to a declaration
of war. these resolutions are accompan-
led by violent and offensive reports,
Offering gratuitOUs prOvOcations to the
Spanish government and people IN the
eyes of the civilized world.
The American case cannot but be
seriously prejudiced by the manner in
which it is now presented
I'VE doubt, after yesterdays scenes,
whether congress is a fit body to deal
with a great national issue. or to act
as the avenger of wrong. The situa-
ton is that congress has declared for
war in everything but name, although
without having defined, except in the
vagueSt manner, the objects for which
it wishes to fight"
Other editorials assert that America
is heading deliberately for war and
that there is only the faintest chance
now that the delay will still enable
peaceful solution.
M'KINLEY DEFENDED.
The Daily News says: 1.-The true
meaning of President McKinley's ac-
ton carrot be mistaken. If ne were
opposed TO war, he would not have
written such a message. He has been
most unfairly attacked for an alleged
of his power. The fact is,
he has done the utmost he could TO
avoid war, but he did not make the
American constitution, which entrusts
a war declaration to congress.
The Daily Chronicle which similarly
defends President Mckinley against
criticisms that the Times newspaper.
With the accustomed faulty of its
treatment of American affairs, makes
against him. says elsewhere America |
S being driven along by elementary
forces which her best statesmen and |
;nrewdest financiers cannot control"
The Standard says: The steady cur
-ent toward war reminds us of the |
course of the Niagara river above the |
'alls. There seems to have been few |
slight disturbances on the surface of /
he stream. in the shape of something /
ike the personal encounters in the !
iouse of representatives. hut there has |
)een no check or diminutiOn of the |
strength of the current"
4 SPEEDY VICTORY.
The Daily Mail thinks that events
re moving in the most desirable di-
ectiOn and giving America time to per-
ect her preparations to insure a speedy
'ictOry."
The Daily Telegraph. looking to the
likelihood that after Spain has been
efeated. the Cubans will not submits
lively accept the terms America may
hoose to impose, says:
L
ertaken in the interest of humanity,
ut one that will tax the resourceful-
ess and craftsmanship of her rulers
o the very utmost"
The Daily Graphic says: THE war
Yill not be child's play. There viii be
"a gedieS on the seas, but there will be
lorse tragedies in Cuba, where the
-nited States will have to face an army
a hundred thousand men"
The ST. James Gazette says: THE
ystem of conducting delicate diplo-
lacy through rival committees is not
ommendable generally and has led. In
his instance, TO deplOTable results.
eneral Fitzhugh Lee, who makes war
Ike speeches and openly eSpouSes the
ause of the insurgents. and declares
lat the time has arrived for action
gainst the friendly power to which he
as accredited, is setting the tone in
Ike General Woodford or President
IcKinley. So the fire-eaters and the
are to have their way be-
ause the cautious and experienced
len are timid and do not possess the
or the courage to declare their ,
acision and insist upon it."
CUT OFF FROM PEACE.
The Westminster Gazette says: IF
lie proposed resolutions pass il means ,
lie Americans have cut themselves off
ON peace. They will have done so ,
after much thought and I
provOcation. and in /
bite of concessions upon which at {
asst temporary peace might have /
zen patched up. IL will be their ,
loice, and we can only hope they I
ave counted the cost"
The Pail Mall Gazette supports Pres
ent Mckinley, saying: He has COM
)rted himself with skill and propri- r
Y throughout. AS a result, he is now
Die to take line which will not fail
get America solid around him. The
isis has come, and it finds the presi- ,
mt ready to act"