The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-14
Let Them open the Bali.

To the Editor CO the indianapolis Journal:
Whenever men become so full Of the
spirit of pugnacity and With such surplus
a plethora of blood that the capacity of
their blood vessels is dangerously taxed
means should be provided for splitting it.
Enough should be spilled at Least to jugu-
late threatening phlemasiac and phrensy A
partial syncope. as an initial effect, would
not be too heroic
The state of affairs that nov exists at
Washington is fitted to excite in the minds
of foreign nations anything but respect for
a p,sople whose traditions have for long been
those of peace and tranquility. Judged by
the reports that lately have been spread
abroad through the press the belIicose fac
ton that has been industriously overthrow
ing Spain with their tongues viii leavs no
stone unturned in their delirious attempt to
bring about war. They speak os war as of
some essential good, to which the citizens of
the United States are entitled and of whics:
Saey4d are , cruelty deprived by stony
hearted chief executive. They refer to the
desirability of carnage with q poetical fe-
vor. and decaim against it's hardness of
approach with a yearning that would be
pltful II 1t were not contemplate. They
allude to diplomatic delays as though the
most Needless haste could not precipitate
struggle with sufficient dispatch to suit
them, in their view. fortunate participants
Let us have war, and let us have it
quick, is the spirit that breathes through
The President has, with infinite patience
and dignifed energy, exhausted ali the re-
sources of diplomacy, and, finding all his
Efforts futile, has forwarded to Congress a
message intended to invoke the aid of the
legislative power to bring to an end a war
that he ftly characterizes as cruel out
1ageouS and destructive to point where il
can no longer be tolerated. And the red
eyed propagandist of war is inconsolable
thereat! This splendid. judicious document
lacks the word that suggests the smell of
SunpoWder the thunder of ordnance and
let us be consistent!-the music of dying
sroans! Oh, yes, let US stop the inhuman-
ity, the intolerable. the horrible state of
var now prevailing i'm Cub6 But how?
Our gladiatorial representatives say Why
by bloodshed, inhumanity ana horror to
which that now in progress must pale into
insgnificance!
Yet war is often unavoidable When
abuses reach the point where devoted hui
tives being war or bondage let war come
Godspeed the right, and peace to the fallen
nero! But war for wars sake 1t might
be doubted that any but mailman would
lift mis- voice to incite the opponents, were
IL not that no longer ago than yesterday
men whose sworn duty it is to pilot the Ma
censured; they haven't got it,. proclaimed
by their rabid utterances that they would
he unreconcilable should pacific counsels
prevail and all the internal reality of car
mage be unrealiZed.
Finally. the present conduct of legislators
me vehement not to say loud-mouthed.
pandering TO the base passions of the rab-
bic, IS puerile. it is shameful and it ought
NOT TO be tolerated. If gentlemen on the
moor OF Congress can't be conteated without
war: IL they must have American citizens
mutilated. MANNED and destroyed by the
modern ingenious death traps they ought
way. M r. c.
Edinhurg Ind Anril 10