The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11

revise his dictum before this trouble is
ended.-Marion News
Consul General Lee is just now the hero
of the hour. He is a brave and level
headed man, and has served his country
with singular ability.-Columbus Repub-
Instead of taking up contributions for the
starving Cubans, we should fire the Span
iards bodily and give the Cubans a chance
quirer.
Senior Moret says Spaniards ere still Span
iards. If there were any hope of making
anything else out of them American indig-
nation might rot be so pronounced.-La-
fayette Courier.
President Mckinley is cast in the same
mold with all great men, who would rather
be right than popular. Such men are al
ways first right. and popularity comes in
due time.-Fort Wayne News
Hank! Hear the mighty refrain
OF nation, shouted again and again.
Remember the Maine;
Down with Sa1ain'
jay County Republican.
Had the Maine been vessel belonging to
the navy of England Germany or France.
and the other circumstances being as they
are, the chances are that Havana would
nave been bombared long before this.-Fort
Wayne Gazette.
The peace at any price men aren't so
forceful a factor in the situation as they
had fondly imagined they were Their pro-
tests TO Congress against war have served
only to make the members the more reso-
lutte in their course.-Muncie News.
This Nation does not have to make a
great ado to show the civilized world and
the Spanish that she will fight With weak
ening braggarts like the Dons. Uncle Sans
patience only adds to his greatness in the
eyes OF the foreign powers.-Plymouth Re-
publican.
President McKinley's patriotism is strong
beyond the shadow of doubt and the
man who accuses him of weakness is in
capable of discussing the difference between
buster and true moral courage. Let it be
an honorable peace or an unavoidable war.
Peru Republican.
The fact that so many enlstments are be-
ing made now is remarkable evidence of the
readiness of the American people to furnish
any number of men that the greatest war
could require. In time of actual war the
government would be simply flooded with
volunteers for service on land or Sea.-Wa-
bash Plain Dealer
Had the calamity to the Maine occurred
in the port of any civilized nation other than
Spain that nation would have fastened to
disavow responsibility for the act and would
have suggested to our government that 1t
would willingly make all reparation within
its power. SPANS curlike silence is
strong badge of guilt.-Plymouth News.
1t is likely that the President in his posi-
tion with the responsibility of the matter
resting on him, knows better what the oc-
casion demands than those to whom re-
sponsbility has not been given. 1t is adj
ViSable to trust the President. If it de-
velops that he is lacking in any of the
qualifications that go to make an American
statesman, there will be time in which to
offer criticism.-Muncie Times.
The course pursued by the administra-
ton meets the approval of all civilized ma
tons, and if war must come these nations
will not interfere. Mckinley has done all
that can be done to avert war with an in
ferior power, but having failed to secure
peace, he is justified in applying the last ar
gument to which kings resort. War must
cease in Cuba, and Spain must make rep
aration for the destruction of the Maine and
the inhuman butchery of our brave seamen.
-KokOmo News.