The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-03
A POLICY OF CANCELLATION.

| We should merely have Invested ourselye
| OF responsibility for private assistaLce t
the crbans. Instead OF that our court
have been employed to punish the Cubans
while the spaniarJs get assistance, AM
every small expedition which escapes 1
| charged up to the president. Mhe b,
came in he was strong enough t. bag,
tanen the step without any breach o.
peace. but the pIesiuent has teniporizec
| and the destruction Of the maine Vas IN.
aggressive response 10 his non c. Inmittai-
ISM.
4 he above observation was addressed Il
me Dy Juuge George r. Fisner, who lrisu
John Surfatt. He is 81 Yeas OF ace. l
was struck with mis- decision, and asked j;
what do you hear arouhu Washington
amcag men OF your aseg
'lnty all believe" said he, that The
Maine was blown UP by the Spanish, lac
ola generals OF the war the retired Officer i
OF the navy, all those with a governmental
organism scout the idea that the toeal de-
sti uotion of the battleship was caused Wy
gas, boilers or any such incidental explo-
sion as frequently happens a1d Is soon re-
paired. Hundreds OF battlesnipssare unuer
steam all over the world and this is tn
only case OF the total destruction OF one
which was especially prepared Tor di Q
emergencies"
Lynch law In Havana has been the cause
of all the disorder in that island A body
Of Spaniarus resident in Havana has sys-
tematically refused to opey the government
Of Spain
hese Havana Spanish previously caused
the oppression which brought on the two
Cuban Instructions.
The Americans long denominated the
Spanish Casino in Havana as the Tammany
haii OF that city. The name was given after
the revolution OF 1868, which broke out lust
peiore Grant became president. At
that time Tweed, Sweeney and
the original ring were in ful
control of Tammany hall few
years later Tweed escaped to Cuba and
frSm Cuba TO Spain
we have thus tempered with the Cuban
question until 1t has all but deyoured us.
re PEOPLE and the press have believed that
the second insurrectiou. with its remark
able general success. deserved M least tho
recognition Of beligerent rights. This was
our policy in the time of Henry Clay, with
inc other South American insurrcctions
Inc action of President Cleveland in push
ing tne Venezuela question ahead OF the
CUBAN question has undoubtedly embar-
raised Cuban recognition again.
the Monroe doctrine is tao large mat
ter to assert the whole of 1t mt one time
: &c FlpSies9 vi thaI doctrine would have
been better secured by the removal of
Spain from the tropics, where she is play
ing no better part than in the times OF
Pi2zaro.
While we have been conducting a cabi-
net war and keeping the regular forces out
Of practice, the Spanish have had a large
recent experience in both naval and land
war.
An instruction in the Philippine islands
hgan nh ~
war and has called into active use great
numbers Of soldiers and sailors. The Cuban
var also has absorbed some four years of |
ne most fervid military energies of Spain |
she has built her own modern battleships |
he most vigorous portion of her popula- |
ion is in the Basque provinces in the |
northwest of Spain, and the Basques have |
zen the most active emigrants TO South |
america, Mexico and Cuba, where two |
thousand of them now exist. This |
eg'on produces the best sailors of Spain,
ot excepting the Galatians.
Cuha has been such a fertile and produce |
I've island that its retention appears TO the |
ranish the first consideration. This Is |
robably an error.
The American colonies of Spain are
bought TO have been the real cause OF her
uin. their production of silver having sent
p the prices of everything else while the
1dsutry of Spain has departed from the
olonies
The last insurrection in Cuba had all the
ualitSAof people no longer afraid of
ar by having had ten years of it in the
rst insurrection. Man soon becomes fond
Of war than of peace.
The attack upon the ship Maine also at
'sts how much less men fear war who are
arms than their superiors who have
come enervated by peace and prosperity.
me Cubans had made next 10 no prepar-
ion for this revolt, but they went into II
ith more capacity than into the first war
me Spanish army. and, of course, the
IVY. has consanguinity with the rabble
I'd the desperadOes of that country. When
q Maine suddenly entered the harbor of |
2vana and tarrled too long it is probable
AT discrimination to destroy her imme- {
ateiy stortei among the more determined
ulchls ABOUT the headquarters of the VOL :
lteefs u was OF course necessary TO ,
AXE such scheme non official, but the |
ecution Of 1t was not that Of amateurs. i
1t required an assassin's incentive and
ucnted assistance. II the vessel, after '
ing Conducted to her place by the Span
authorities. was allowed by her officer
trust gentle chance. they as well as :
administration at Washington made n
eat mistake,
! he national heart Of Spain and .he e
oie heart of the Spanish volunteers In
pa, WIN tnelr accompanying rabble
ted that ship as the first sign of nm
nertcan interference within the jurlsdic n
n of Cuba.
rhe instant the Maine went there TIE
lcaya was ordered to New York. as II
show Indifference whether war came 4
out or not.
The present ministry in Strain has next !,
no sympathy among the Spanish forces
Cuba which have been fighting the re-. b
lion. Great losses o. life have o,currel
the srsrish. Each life so lost Is charrel
the t'ubans, they being regarded as reb'
against their mother country. q,
TO paralyse the Cubans who could 500 T.,
war vessel Maine visible sign ~
pc was the not very shallow statesman =
p OF the murderers around the Spanish p.
.iAo to Family into the Spanish army
navy To destroy the Maine would ,s m
eonvu.so ssain and overcome her new
hstrN wan popular whir!wnd. 80
must re said that up 10 this time IN. =
nus been successful 1t has concsn-
'eu 'he purnoi of Srain ana scattered
nf rs Ill