The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-10
HIS MESSAGE IN OUTLINE
FORECAST OF WHAT PRESIDENT
MKINLEY WILL SAY
No Mention VIII Be Made of the
Recognition of the Present Gov
eminent, but the President Will
Dwell Upon the State of Anarchy
That Now Exists on the Island of
Cuba.

NEW YORK, April "a special to
the World from Washington says: The
high privilege OF seeing the presidents
message has been accorded to only four
persons outside the cabinet-all leading
men in the national government-and it
is most significant that each of these
four men expresses his personal belief
that war is inevitable. Having seen
what the president will communicate to
congress, they declare that no other re-
suit is possible.
The opening part Of the message IS
devoted to terse review of the whole
| Cuban instruction. 1t is shown that
/ it directly concerns the people Of the
United States; their interests on the
island and on the high seas. The pa
thence of our people; what they have
done, and what they have forborne to
do is pointed out
The president then recites specific
acts, showing the origin and spread of
| anarchy in the island. He refers, in
detail, to the devastation of fertile
plantations. He points out the starva-
ton of innocent and inoffensive people
! as result of this anarchy, which the
Spanish government has never been
able to quell, and in which recently
{ SPANS officers have participated.
This theme of existing anarchy, in
| fact, runs through all the messag e-an-
archy, that is, 1.-The whole history of
the Cuban war" as the president HIM
self terms it. 1t is against this an
archy that the forces of, the United
States are to be promptly used if the
Spanish government at the final hour
does not grant the concessions abso-
lutely necessary to remove and destroy
it.
Two Counts.
The president points out the justifica-
ton for interference by, the United
States. In his opinion, plainly and
explicitly expressed, this interference
should take the form Of forcible inter-
vention, so that the anarchy and law
lessness shall have an immediate end.
There are two counts in the indict-
| Inent drawn by the president, both
due to SPANS complete failure to
maintain law and order.
The first count is the menace to the
commerce of the world, and PARTICULAR
ly to that part which is supported by
the United States and protected by it's
flag.
The president gives specific instances
of the depreciation of American COM
merce with the West Indies since the
virtual overthrow of civil government
in Cuba was accomplished by the ere
alton of a government which has its
foundation in anarchy.
But it is in the second count that
the president describes to the people
of the United States the terrible re-
suits of this lawlessness under Spanish
rule. Here he deals with the destruc-
ton Of the Maine. In plain, fOrcible
language, the president declares that
the blowing up Of the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor was the direct re-
suit Of the failure Of the Spanish, the
Cuban or any government claiming to
Cd iSto 1ou in island nf Cnha
to suppress the condition of anarchy
existing there.
Then there is set forth this note
worthy fact: The Spanish government
has not, since the day the Maine was
destroyed, either through it's dipo-
matte representative in Washington, or
through the American representative
in Madrid, disavowed the responsible
ty for that destruction.
The president points out as evidence
of the discourtesy of Spain the fail
ure of the government to establish the
innocence of it's agents in connection
with the loss of so many lives on the
ship of a friendly nation. within the
jurisdiction of its own alleged govern
ment.
Spain's Protest.
AS for Spain's protest against being
held responsible for the less of the bat
tleship, the president treats that as
simple diplomatic prOtestation, having
no tangible evidence to support it. The
sole declaration in the protest of Spain
at all worthy of consideration, in the
presidents opinion, is the assumption
| that the cause of the explosion was in
ternal, but he insists that the Spanish
government has not presented a single
fact to justify this theory.
The message does not contain sin
gle encouraging word for the so-called
o~vAras~Ar+ nf tho rapuhlin nf Cuba