New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-30

orphans cry aloud 10 us the silent appeal OF 2ss
seamen comes TO US again and again SAVING d S we
flesh OF your flesh, bone OF your bone ana Dood
of your blood; loved and died for the fag that
yS tS be speak l only
for myself. and l am for war! tApplause IN the
galleries)
FOR HOSTILITIES AT ONCE.
But gentlemen may say, Don't say you are for
war; say that you for armed Intervention
which means ! believe In calling things by
their right names. II we believe that numbering
our men, sinking our ship and lowering our flag
Is not cause for war. so. and refer IT, as they
did the Nirginius affair. and allow our brothers to
be sold like stock for gold II IT for war.
let's assume the responsibility put upon us by the
Constitution and say not only TO Spain, but TO
mean another. For Gods sake. let Us not spanish:
ze our dip omacies. hut rather speak the truth ana
prove ourselves true disciples Of James G. Blaine.
We can hide longer under the Executive
wing He can neither declare war nor refuse It.
Congress alone can declare war for one am
ready 70 vote now. You may continue to cry Peace.
Peace! but there can he no peace while Europeans
ngnt where our flag Hoats. But there are those
,iny; IL was not necessary; the peaceo-at any
pic man cannot escape So The law iixes me
over Spanish soil. The harbor is owned and con
roLed by Spain The explosives In that harbor
torpedo. it was a Spanish torpedo II It was a
mh an 1t was "a Spanish mine No explosives have
citizens II IT was Gun-cotton. II was Spanish gun
cotton. and II IT was dynamite. IT WAS Spanish
by Spain. government acts only through us
agents and officers as much as they controlled
lhe dlscharge or their cannon. II was owned, To-
Gated and exploded by Spain. and Spain must an
swcr.
any kind of autonomy on cuba. Spain cannot be
TO 10 e her o &sdo from ha poor o
I All has paid larger price for liberty than we
plan that looks to forcing Cuba in the future to
pay Spain in cash for her liberty Her land Is full
be mortsaged. II is claimed by that Cuba
ought TO he willing to pay SPANS cuban war debt
her people! To pay for the torches that burned
her homes, To pay the back wages Of the Spanish
soldiers, who ravished their wives and daughters,
Never by any vote Of mine
Some tell us we must wait for Spanish cleo
pomaces we cannot Wait re # is caimcd that
we will wait until the Spanish elections, sagasta
twice with the same trick? Is De LONE so soon
forgotten? Some tell us We are not prepared.
when the Spanish torpedo hotlla has crossed the
es Sd rests ye T on afr an ase Of s
hest? We know now oGlclay what we . have
can destroy more of our ships and men? God
forbid that such a crime should be charged 10
that locks us in drowsy Incidence murmuring Peace
at any price, awake our forefathers did at Con
a Nation that burns homes and murders women
and children; awake 10 glorious war that seeks
to drive the oppressor from the continent. to set
the Cuban flag in the sky forever. and a war that
notice that the honor OF flag and tho lives
OF citizens must be respected among the ma
tons Of the world" applause in the galleries.
At the conclusion Of Mr. Mason's speech bill
providing for a National exposition of American
products and manufactures in Philadelphia Tor
encouragement OF the export trade and appropri-
ating $50 90 therefor passed.
Mr. Morgan presented and secured the passese
Of resolution calling on the President Tor hL9r-
nation as to the disposition made OF The appropra-
ton OF $4,000 for tho relief Of American citzens
in Cuba. and to the number or American CIT
liens relieved from the fund.