The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-04-07

- chicago Record: Whether war
peace shall come of it. this natio
VIII continue in the way which lies
plainly before it. Cuba must !
free ~
at
ID Philadelphia Enquirer: The Span
''n nag must disappear from the fac
m OF Cuba, and Cuba must be as free a
50 IS the United States of America.
rs
= Brooklyn Citizen: There is NOR,
than one power in Europe that need.
to learn that the long peace enioyed
. oy our people has not enfeebled their
% courage.
O st. Louis Globe Democrat: The
0 sooner the righteous blow is struck
the better. and war for us will be less
dangerous than the continued semi
war of the last two months.
Kansas City Star; If Spain shall
remain obstinate, the people of the |
United States will know how to do
their part in a war forced upon them
IN the interests Of freedom and hu.
mainly.
Philadelphia Times: There are
many reasons why Spain cannot I
afford to provoke war, and unless it
snail be provoked by Spain there can
oe no war between that country and
ours. t
New York Press: There scarcely a
can be doubt but that the. defeat of p
Spain will be accomplished in less I'll
time than has been consumed by the
regulations since the destruction of al
he Maine. Sc
ca
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: We
The whole world, and the United -.
'tates most of all, hopes that Spain III y,
MI see the uSelessness of further W.
Hort, and will yield. But the news e en-
hand does not warrant a belief 10
lat she will do so. 70
brio
Baltimore American: We believe. spec
the event of war, this country INIT
'uld win, but it is silly to minimize 100
danger Of war, even with Spain 'lon
I'D naval fights, especially, there O. L
many incidents, and nobody In,Pe'
ows how mucb DAMAGE ,bosn III, Fina
pedo boats can do. 1t
on L.
Press. Han Boun
lin make \ ser;ous chs Tl w." 1894
ion is practically bonkrr,. Il. taxes
is little more than half ours in In
strength. 1t will be three authC
island miles from an ofTo.t;ro Laa~ ton t
Ill be without coal, without equip pirate
t, without means of repair The anu 81
AIRY force of Spain is exhausted 1ht
would be speedily blockaded
cut off from the Spanish
IS 1t would be madness for
4 to enter upon such a contest
lich defeat would be swift, GER corr.spol
md complete Ham,,
greet I
W ork journal: The Amar;. lovely fl
eople have imposed their will Calvin
upon congress and unon 49, young &
emf and t6vo-l a. '"o ing Oh 1
nowor al VIA. o'ei mas II. W.
ut are still working in harmony last SUN
common end. What Spain AN.
eclde to do about Cuba is Of midst Su
chiefly to herself 1t cannot Miss NJ
he fact that Cuba il % ho f..O disposed
It her freedom ;s "a ooo c..I John b
That is tbo ;rrouoIi ~, ."- ing OF goi
Trnited Sto,o. r Poiioy JAS NJ
=, aa,'.. D'"'e'' iorceo upon son, Wayl
IL government by popular ness
That cannot be disobeycd. Jno. MI
mas locate
York World. Tn +I,o I'm place.
'0iiu' In the chilly ~,
which achieved the paradox Loa dne OF, old
ng congress and the country '' U last
hot, President Mckinley mi n%,'u
d his belief that "the sense Of week.
II the Spanish nation will Nathani,
course of action suggested the Laurel
: More amazing than his Wet muc
trust in the justice and Francis
the nation that produced county Ky.
ned PIzarro, Alva, Cortez h. Edmond
and Weyler, was the pres, his Iu 6 '"e mis- rs
'''oueheSS 10 the course of feeding his
,tated by our sense of justice The Ken
l. mountain rO
months, viii
lis Renubl;o. nv, benefit to (
;tol Inc people Cumberland
! 70 a. ioooi'eu 10 March can
INC thurman business went out like
If they have a right to Francis N,
Walton, they also have went to DonE
move forever the cause of First Satur
That cause is Snan;sb nothing happ
m this logic there is no VIC pest prea
.orn-;-:.-a dssssssss
re few men ~sas e ModeI
fnt