The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-07
The Truth Out at Inst.

1t has developed at last! What The
Times has been charging and predict
| ing day in and day out for six months
CT more has come to pass. The Admin
istration has. and always has had,
definite Cuban policy upon which it is
now ready TO act. Our readers know
what it is well enough and others can
find it more or less guardedly set forth
! in the columns of the Administration
/ and Spanish newspapers here and in
Europe. 1t is nothing but money.
From the day he assumed office to
! the present moment the policy of Mr..
| Mckinley regarding Spain and Cuba
| has been answering and consistent.
No argument of national dignity or
| honor and no consideration of justice,
| mercy or common humanity has ever
affected his course in the least degree.
! His Administration has moved ponder
| ously and arelentlessly along, always
with a SINCE object in vIew-Io achieve
a settlement Of the Cuban war upon the
! basis of assuming four hundred million
dollars Of Spanish debt that three hum
! dred millions OF it might so as profit
! into the pockets of a gang of treason
| able conspirators against the good
| fame and the wealth of the American
people
That policy is about TO be sprung
| upon the country. probably through a
| message IL Congress. Then it will be
| fully realized that there is nothing in
| it but money for the bond syndicate
| The massacre in Havana harbor has
no connection with it. Spanish atroci-
| ties and the torture and murder of
/ American citizens are completely for
! eign 10 it, Intervention for the sake
! Of saving Cuban women and children
| from further outrage and butchery is
not within q thousand miles of it, 1t
is as Indifferent to the independence Of
| Cuba as its chief exponent has been
for year. 1t is money. money, money.
This blistering disgrace to America
is being prepared nominally as a peace
Offering 10 Spain. All the organs play
| the same gentle tune of Mckinley and
the lamb. Spain ought to have in
| demnity, Why, il would be hard TO
imagine unless it be for the sickening
| horrors of Ruiz's death, the chopping
I
causti But the indemnity argument is
. deliberate, cold-blooded and criminal
attempt to cover up the real truth
Spain is not intended TO get dollar
Of indemnity. The sharks who have
picked up four hundred millions of
Spanish bonds for a song and are to
be paid out at face value by a tax
ridden nation form the only interest
which is to be 'indemnified, They
indeed are to be more than handsome
~ Unidentified in the clean-cut plumber
of something like three hundred million
dollars less whatever they may be
compelled to divide with those whose
religious convictions force them always
humbly to seek after peace with dis
honor
Now. is it within the range Of human
possibility that Congress and the Amer
lean people will submit to this black
perfidy; TO this foul conspiracy Of trea-
son and robbery?
God forbid: else we might as well
once and for all time abandon the re-
hottest pretense Of government by and
for the people, Upon the soul of every
senator and representative today let
this thought rest What is left of ma
tional honesty and honor is in sore
peril 1t is time for patriots to speak
and act