Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-16

hostile constraint upon both the pattle9
to the contest as we'll to enforce true
as to guide the eventual settlement. Inc
grounds for such Intervention may DC
briefly summarized as follows:
Grounds for Intervention.
First. in the cause of humanity and TO
pit an end to the barbarites, bloodsheu'
starvation and horrible miseries now eN-
ist!ng there and which the parties to the
conflict are either unable or unwilling 10
stop or mitigate. it is no answer to say
TINS is in a country belonging TO another
nation and is therefore none OF our pusl-
ness. 1t is especially our duty, Tor II Is
right at our door.
Second, we owe to our citizens in Cuba
to afford them that protection and IN
dcmnity for life and property which no
government there can or will afford, ana
to that end terminate the conditions that
deprive tnem of legal protection.
Third the right to intervene may pc
justified by the very serious injury to the
commerce, trade and business of our peo-
pie and by the wanton destruction OF
property and devastation of the island.
Fourth, and which is of the utmost
Importance. the present condition OF al
fairs in Cuba is a constant menace TO our
peace and entails upon this government
enormous expenses. With such CONNECT
waged for years in an island so near to us
and with which our people have such
trade and business relations-When the
lives and liberty of our citizens are IN
. constant menace, their property de-
stroyed and they themselves ruin
ed, when our trading vessels are liable to
seizure and are seized at our very doors
by warships of foreign nation, the eXpe-
ditions of filibustering that we are pow
/ erless to prevent altogether and the !rri-
tating questions thus arising-all these
and others are constant menace to our
peace and compel us to keep on semi
war footing with that nation with which
we are at peace
The Tragedy of the Maine.
The elements of danger and disorder al
ready pointed out have been Str1klnglN
illustrated by a tragic event which has
deeply and justly moved the American
people.
l have already transmitted to congress
the report of the naval court of inquiry
on the destruction of the battleship
Maine in the harbor of Havana during the
night of the 18th of February. The de-
struction of that noble vessel has filled
! the national heart with ineXplicable hor-
rOr; 25S brave sailors and marines, two
officers of our navy, reposing in the Tan
cied security of d friendly harbor, have
been hurled to death, grief and want
. brought to their homes and sorrow to the
nation.
4 The naval court of inquiry which it is
needless to say, commands the unQuaE-
fled confidence of the government, was
unanimous in it's conclusion thai the de-
struction of the Maine was caused by an
exterior explosion; that of submarine
mine. 1t did not assume to place the re-
sponsbility. That remains to be fixed
In any event the destruction of the
Maine, by whatever cause, is a patent
and impressive proof of a state of things
in Cuba that is intolerable. That condt-
tor is thus shown to be such that the
Spanish government can not assure safety
and security to a vessel of the American
navy in the harbOr of Havana on mis-
sion of peace and rightfully there.
Spain Wants Arbitration.
i Further referring in this connection, to
recent diplomatic correspondence dis
patch from our minister to Spain of the
26th ut. contained the statement that the
Spanish minister for foreign affairs assur-
ed him positively Spain will do all that
the highest honor and justice requires in
tnc matter of the Maine. The reply above
referred to of the 31st ult. also contained
an expression of the readiness of Spain
to submit to arbitration all the differ
ences which can arise in this matter,
which is subsequently explained by the
note of the Spanish minister at Washing
ton of the 10th inst as follows:
AS to the question of fact which
tween the report of the American and the
Spanish boards Spain proposes that the
fact be ascertained by an impartial n
vestigation by experts which decision
Spain accepts in advance"
To this l have made no reply
President Grant Quoted.
President Grant in 1878, in discussing
the purposes of the contest as it appeared
then and its hopeless and indefinite pro
longation, said:
I'm such event I am of the opinion that
/ other nations will be compelled to as
sumo the responsibility which deVolves
upon them and to seriously consider the
only remaining measures possible, media
ton and intervention. Owing perhaps to
the large eXpanse of water separating the
island from the peninsula, the cOntending
parties appear to have within themselves
no depository of common confidence to
suggest wisdom, when passion and eX-
element have their sway, and thus as
sumo the part of peacemaker.'
In this view, in the earlier days Of the
contest, the good offices OF the United
States as mediator were rendered in good
faith, without any selfish purposes, in the
interest of humanity and sincere friend
ship for both parties, but We're at the
time declined by Spain with the declara-
ton, nevertheless, that at a future time
they would be Indispensable.
No ntmation has been received that in
the opinion of Spain that time has been
reached; yet the strife continues with
all of it's dread horrors and its injuries to
the United States and other nations Each
party seems quite capable of working
great injury and damage to the other as
well as to all the relations and interest
dependent on the existence OF peace IN
the island, but they seem incapable OF
reaching any adjustment, and both have
thus far failed of achieving any success
whereby one party shall possess and con
troll the island to the exclusion of the
other.
What Cleveland Said.