The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-14

place as the only means Of extirDating
an otherwise incurable and dangerous
evil.
The autonomy scheme which was
promised, and which was alluded to by
President Mckinley, in his last annual
message, is pronounced .'specious and
ilIusory.'
OPINION OF JURISTS.
Conflict of opinion among jurists upon
the subject OF intervention is very
great. Arntz maintains that the right
OF intervention exists when one state
violates or threatens the rights of an
other state. while, on the other hand,
Guisot declares that one state has the
right 10 intervene in another state only
wien its own safety renders it indis-
pensable- Between these extremities Of
opinion, differences among publicists
are various and irreconcilable Quoting
from Professor Hall and others, in sup
port of the right of intervention in
cases similar to that of Cuba, the report
states as follows:
RIGHT OF INTERVENTION.
IF these opinions state the correct
rules, as we believe they do, the right
OF intervention by the United States
IN the present instance is undoubtable.
The balance of power and the Mon
roe doctrine are both policies of inter-
Vention 10 be effected in certain con-
tingencies in furtherance of national
politics, and to justify which, no canon
of international law was ever invoked.
The former has profoundly affected the
relations OF the European states, and
the independence of many of these SOW
ereignties The latter has kept the
power of Europe out of the American
continets ever since it was promul-
gated.
IN MEXICO.
1T was distinct announcement that
the United States would intervene IN
der certain expressed circumstances in
the affairs of every Central American
and South American state. The United
States did intervene by threat and show
Of force in the affairs of Mexico, and
France, and compelled the evacuation
of that republic by a European power,
whose own prior Intervention in MeXi-
can affairs had overthrow a republic
and established a monarchy upon the
ruins. No Dublicist has ever asserted
that either of these policies is part of
the law of nations.
THE ONLY MEANS.
Further justification, for interven-
ton in the present case, is found in
the fact that it is the only means of
extirpating an otherwise incurable and
dangerous evil.
The conduct of the European pow
ers respecting Turkey has been pur-
suant to the policy which impels one
nation TO intervene in the affairs of
another state to stop cruelty and mas
sacre, and, if necessary, to depose it
from sovereignty. The fact that Spain
is a Christian state does not give her
greater warrant to eXterminate her
subjects than Mahommedan Turkey
possessed to exterminate hers.
TURKEY AND GREECE.
THE recent interventions of the
European powers in favor of Turkey
and against Greece in her endeavor to
assist the Cretan insurgents, is famil-
lar history. So also is the intervention
of the same powers. which checked the
advance of the armies of Turkey into
Greece"
The committee then quotes from the
messages of President Cleveland, De-
cember. 1894, and from President Nc
Kinley's message of Dec. 6, 1897. in sup
port of the committees contention that
the attitude of the United States to-
ward the present question has been
based on the right of Intervention to
exercise it in certain contingencies.
These declarations the committee
says. in conclusion. more than i'm
piled that this government would in
terpose in the event of a failure within
a reasonable time TO conquer the in
surgents or to induce them by con-
cessions of home rule to lay down
their arms.
SPECIOUS AND ILLUSORY.
They have not been subdued. The
proffered was specious and
illusory. 1t has been rejected by the
insurgents, not because it was speciOus
and illusory, but because they would
accept nothing short of complete ma
tional independence. The suggestion
of more complete autonomy has also
been rejected by them. They declare |
to the United States and Spain alike !
that no terms short of independence |
which those powers may attempt to |
prescribe to them will be accepted |
Spain refuses to grant independence. |
The war, then, must go on, and the |
misery which has shocked the civilized 1
world must continue and increase I'M 1
less it is terminated by the triumph of |
Cuba or Spain or by the interposition of |
the United States.
TIME HAS ARRIVED.
TT is the opinion of this committee |
that the time to interpose has ar
the war and secure the national indie [
pendence of Cuba should at once take /
place. If under all the circumstances /
Spain shall choose TO regard such ac- /
ton by this government as a cause OF |
war, the consequence, however deplor- I
able, win be accepted by the American |
people with all the fortitude that con-
idence in the justice of their action I
can inspire.
Such intervention is justifiable and /
necessary for the following reasons:
The present situation in Cuba has be- |
come a menace to the peace of the |
world. and especially to the peace and /
safety OF the United States. Spain has
bid for European intervention. thus
far apparently without success, but the
conditions which make such interven-
ton possible should be removed at
once
For nearly three years the hosuH-
ties in Cuba and the Spanish admins
tration of that island have involved
this government in perilous relations
with Spain, and raised questions of
right and responsibility in which no
of settlement is apparent. So
long as these conditions are allowed
TO remain unsettled they will increase
an irritation which has already be
come intolerable. and which viii in
evitably ultimately require adjustment
BY measures much more vigorous than
now seem adequate to compose exist
ng difficulties.
SPANS FAILURE.
"Spain has failed to perform her
.reaty obligations. and other interna-
.ionaI duties toward the United States
To give minute specification of the
would necessarily extend
mis- paper. They are the familiar mat