The evening times., 1898-12-29
A Significant Jubilee.

New Haven is one town in New England
that intends TO free itself from the sus-
picionS tlla1 it shares what has come to be
regarded as the almost exclusive sentiment
Of that small section of the great Republic.
1t will hold peace jubilee for
the distinct purpose of expressing
its Joy over the release OF Cuba
from the tyrant grasp of benighted
Spain In the case of the Chicago. Phil
adelphia and Atlanta peace celebrations,
all were projected and two were executed
before peace was reached. and they lad
as their real object the Turing into town
of the reluctant country merchant. IT was
to stimulate the fall trade, for which job
bers had mace great preparations. The
peace was a mere pretense. New Haven
has no out-of-town business which ore
ring circus is not able to bring in. 1T is
not devoted to the undisnifed antlos Oh
New Orleans and other Mardi Gras COM
munities. 1t takes its pleasures quietly, If
not sadly, and goes to bed at early candle
light. as far as the college boys will per-
nit. Its proposed celebration is free from
all taint of ulterior motives
New Haven finds itself somewhere near
the storm center of a narrow, intense and
unpatriotic provincialism. The voices of
the public men of New England are raised
in protest against the manifest destiny of
the American Republic. Senator Hoar, eX-
Senator Edmunds, Senator Hale. as far as
his fears of being retired will allow him
TO speak; ex-Secretary Boutwell,, Repre-
sentative Boutelle the late Senator Morrill,
and others have either announced them
selves or have been classed with, the enc
mics OF expansion: they have been quoted
| as recognizing none of the claims OF the
former Spanish colonists TO our care and
protection. At Harvard Professor Norton
breaches un-American doctrines and the
loveliness of Spain. To show that the seat
of Harvard's rival institution is as dis
tinctly American as the students of Yale.
the citizens of New Haven will decorate,
hurrah and speechify for the one clear and
/ exclusive purpose of gloating over the JUS
tice of Heaven in bringing on the barba-
rous brigand Empire of Spain the loss of
the last of her once vast island territory,
which includes the emancipation of the
struggling Cubans from the virtual slavery
of centuries.
In referring to this jubilee which
brings out the Americanism Of Yale in
strong contrast with the sentiment of
Harvard. where monarch loving teach
er like Norton is supported in his as
s:.1.lts on this nation and peop!e an anti
expansion newspaper asserts tina: this is
i celebration about which ali can agree.
I, 4 h, 15-,-r
0s Cuba's long night and the dawn os
Cuba's new day?" The question is easily
answered. A majority OF hos who are
ncw opposing American retention OF the
Spanish colonies acquired b. The fer
tunes of war. Most of th ese men opposed
the war with Spain on the sFounl that
we had no right to interfere with her rule
in Cuba; that she must D. allowed %
suppress Cuban instructions in nsr own
way. 1t would be easy to rep -oduc" eii-
tCrial articles and speeches Published End
spoken before the declaration cf war de-
Tending Spain in her Wsyicr!sm AMI
damning the insurgents as mostly jaWlcss
blacks who were entitled 90 neither sym
pathy nor help. The men who were gull
1
tive in denouncing the acquisition cf thc
Spanish pcssessions-or the burgiarizir.s
Of Spain by the Americans, as the anti
expansionist New York Evening Post states
il in an article reproduced in The Times
this morning.
1t is impossible that the leading spirits
of those who attack the President policy
which is the policy of the American peo-
ple-should sympathize with any patriotic
celebration. They loathe and despise pa
triotism. and can fling no charge which
seems TO them more terrible against
man than that he is patriot. They will
not fly the Stars and Stripes on New Ha-
yens jubilee day. Only the fear Of broken
windows could prevent the hanging of
crepe on their homes. The great hody of
the people, however. will applaud New
Haven, and in choosing a university for
the education of their sons they will pre-
fer that where there are no Professor Nor
IONS and where the people are Americans,
as at New Haven. 1t should be borne in
mind that in spite of the number of prom
inent New England men who are against
the Presidents policy a great many Of the
less prominent and less volube people of
that section are with the President, heart
and soul. They are proud of Dewey, one
of New England's sons. At the very home
Of ex-senator Ednlunds a Republican news
paper has condemned the early anti-ex-
pansion resolutions of the Vermont Repub-
Iican convention, has criticised Mr. Ed
munds and asserted that the Resolutions do
not reflect the feelings of the people of the
State.
Criminals who lack originality are quick
TO seize on any new invention to achieve
their wicked aims. Two persons, at least,
have followed the example of the poisoned
candy monster at San Francisco, who kill
ed two women in Delaware The latest
crime is the sending of bottle of bromo
seltzer, into which an acrid and virulent
poison had been placed, to a club man in
New York. 1t has resulted in the death of
his aunt. 1t is astounding that any criminal
should run the risk of killing an unknown.
person by sending poison through the
mails. The candy intended for Mrs Dun
nil ln6 her c;cf ale