The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
MUST NOT RUSH INTO WAR.
Senator Davis Speaks on the Atti-
tudc of the Administration.

tudc of the Administration.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 22.-Republican
leaders of the Wolverine state enjoyed a
gastronomic and political feast tonight
on the occasion of the thirteenth annual
banquet of the Michigan Club. Nearly 500
club members were seated at the tables
and as many more of both sexes looked on
from the galleries.
Great interest centered in the utterances
of Senator Cushman X. Davis of Minneso-
ia, whose topic "Our Foreign Relations, I"
was considered of special import on ac-
count of Senator Davis position as chair
man of The Senate committee on foreign
relations.
Concerning our Spanish relations, he
said: I'VE have suffered from SPANS
procrastinating policy always. While no
overt act of war has transpired
there have been several occasions when
we were perilously near it. There has been
raging in Cuba an insurrection, terrible
strife for liberty, which has been met by
Spain with examples of horrors which
have deeply shocked the civilized world
and more especially the people of the Uni
ted States. Such things have transpired
in Poland, Hungary and Armenia, and the
procras tination of the nations in dealing
with these horrors has pressed heavily up
on the hearts of the people.
81 speak, however from the head not
| from the heart. 1 do not wish to fire
your enthusiasm to any unwarranted con-
clusions. The duty of the Congress and
of the President are confined solely TO the
interests and advantages of the people of
| the United States. However profoundly
our sympathies may be stirred (and GOD
knows my heart sympathizes with these
struggling patriots as much as any man 81
We are still brought back to the question
of what, in connection with our foreign
| relations, is for the interest, honor, and
dignity of the people of the United States
| What would Washington say were he
! here to-day. No entangling alliance; no
arrangements with foreign powers
when the South American states re-
VOTED in 1910 many of our people clam
ored for belligerent measures; the his
toric time of Monroe and Adams reads
much like that of the present, but it was
not until 1920 we recognized the bellige-
rency of those struggling nations. Where
the hand of cruelty or indignity is laid
our people, better war by land and sea
than peace under such circumstances, but
so long as no American is deprived of his
rights and liberties speaking from the
head, not the hearD in the interests of nv
own country, only, 1 implore you land /
would that my voice could reach all our
people, 1 implore you, let us be moderate
in act and in word.
Il am commissioned TO bring you no
word from the government, but I have
seen our President weighing these cues
tons of the hour. A large portion of our
people wish to drive him forward and
into war. Let us take the advice of Capt.
Sigsbee, and suspend judgment on the
Maine disaster. If then our dark forebod-
ings are justified by the investigation be
assured President Mckinley and the
United States government will not be
found wanting in any act which that
dreadful circumstance shall render neces-
sary.
Does anybody suppose that Mckinley.
the ex-solder, that our John Sherman
Our own Gen. Alger, John d. Long and the
United States Senate, lightly feel or stint
ingly put aside these great questions? 1t
is mighty easy for one not having these
responsibilities to urge doing something
right away but impose those responsible
tiles upon those who thus complain and
they would approave the course of the
President of the United States"