The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-03-18
rlcKinIey the WarIike.

McKinley-Don, if you kick ME again
I'll bite.
Driven into the last corner by the
Spaniard, Mr. Mckinley is unable to re-
treat any further and now threatens TO
shoot, when lie finds the rising ire of the
American people is more dangerous than
Spain. Mckinley has stood still and lis
tened to the means Of women and chill
dren starving by tens of thousand, pen
ned up by a cowardly and savage Spanish
army. He has seen one of our best battle
ships blown up by the treacherous Span
ish and 256 Americans killed by the ex-
plosion, and has said he believed it was
all accident. He has heard DeLome say
to the world that he is shistering poll
tician. He has advised the American
people to send provisions, clothing and
medicine 10 the Cubans, while the Spanish
army keeps them cooped up in towns
without an ounce of food The world
stands in amazement; it never beheld such
a spectacle before as nation trying to
squelch rebellion by starving the help
less, non. combatants, women and chill
dren, and the people of a neighboring,
powerful nation feeding the starving
people-sending them supplies in its
naval ships, while the brutal Spaniards
growl and threaten At last the Spaniard
suggests" that it would be agreeable to
him if General Lee, who is too much
American to please the Spaniard, were
recalled and some such minister sent to
take his place as grandmother Hoar.
This is too mnch. The patient American
people will stand no more and black
war cloud rises up in night. Mckinley
is frightened at last by the rising anger of
the people, and Wall street notifies him to
threaten to shoot. In day the formid
able war cloud proves 20 be but summer
morning fog The Spaniard hastens to
say he did not mean it, that he desires
peace and not war, and Mckinley feels a
great load lifted from his chicken heart
Wall street is not much alarmed. Stocks
have not been much disturbed, the
"honor" of the country is safe for while
longer and the gold standard has not
quite broken down.
Again the war clouds darken the whole
heavens. The investigating committee
reaches the conclusion from evidence dis
covered by the divers, that the Maine was
blown up by mine placed i'll the bottom
OF the harbor of Havana by the Spanish
government.
Now we hold, and the American people
generally believe, that to the cowardly,
if not criminal course pursued by the
Cleveland and Mckinley administrations
can be directly traced this entire Cuban,
disgraceful imbroglio. The American
people are not justly chargeable with any
part of it, but these two trucking admin
istrations. They have spent two millions
treasury policing the coast with revenue
vessels and war ships to stop filibusters.
They have filled our jails with suspects
pointed out by Pinkerton detectives paid
by Spanish gold. These two administra
and Mckinley Shave
been the allies Of Spain in everything
short of sending an army to Cuba to help
Spain fight the insurgents. This internal
policy of these two administrations, which
has been policy ofinjustice, has brought
this country to the verge Of war, and in
volved it in millions of expense that might
have all been saved by an honest straight
neutral course. That neutral
course was to have declared the Cuban
patriots entitled to belligerant rights and
granted them. This would not have been
all unfriendly act or cause of war to
Spain, but would have placed the Cubans
and Spain on an exactly equal footing as
far as this country is concerned. Then
the Cubans could have purchased and
shipped war materials from our ports
without molestation, their only risk being
running the Spanish blockade at Cuban
ports, which has proven no risk at all.
The Spaniards would have been beaten
out of the island before this, and the
United States have avoided the loss and
disgrace it is now suffering
But the Ro,hschild gold ring owned
Spanish bonds that Cuba was pledged as
security for, and the same Jew gang of
money sharks had lien OH the admin
istrations of Cleveland and Mckinley for
making it, by their money, possible that
such tools as Cleveland and Mckinley
should ever reach the Presidential chair
of this great nation. When the American
people contemplate these facts-and they
are facts-they cover and hide their faces
in shame