The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-04-16
cuREEsr WAR CONSENT,

Porto Rico is fertile little island OF
1850 square miles and 1000. 900 inhabi-
tants. II would be an ample indemnity
for any small American port Spain
might succeed in bombarding. Globe
Democrat.
Armed Intervention in Cuba is neces.
sary and justified ON these grounds :
First. legally, to suppress disorders that
threaten our domestic peace and tran
guilty. Second, morally, to put stop
to blcodshed and inhuman cruelty in a
purposeless wary. Y. Times.
The war department closed contracts
Saturday for 100000 pounds Of gun cot.
ton, to be used for submarine mines.
! The name Of the contractor was not
made public. These submarine mines
are laid by the war department aud not
by the navy department as is common
supposed.-News-NIiner.
Most of the poor fellows on the Maine
never knew what struck them. One of
the wounded men at Key West, when
asked by naval officer to tell what he
knew OF the frightful explosion said:
swell, sir, was corkin' it off to me
hammick, sir, when I hears hell of a
noise. Then, sir, the nurse SAYS, sit up
and take this That's all know SIR"
Boston Globe.
1t may not be amiss to remind mer-
chants who have received solieitols
peace communications from the east that
there is something higher and nobler in
life than the pursuit OF wealth. Patriot
ism and love Of country should come be-
fore all else. II the peace party can
reconcile insult, treachery and dishonor
with the qualities mentioned all we'll
and gOod.-Evansville Courier.
A prominent Spaniard in London is
reported as saying: I'VE shall deal
American trade more rapid and telling
blows than America will ever deal IA,
for, il we cannot capture vessels, we can
wreck them." One swallow does n It
make summer. The Spaniards wrecked
the Maine, but any further attempts on
their part to wreck American vessels are
not likely to prove as successful. Fore
warned by the Maine deviltry, we are
now forearmed.-Inter-Ocean.
The coast line OF the United States
measures 5,7l5 miles, 2,349 miles being
on the Atlantic, 1856 on the Gulf OF
Mexico and 1910 on the Pacific. On the
Atlantic and Gull coasts are thirty i'm
portant cities and many more OF less
On the Pacific seven i'm
portant points are on the coast or ap-
proachable from the coast. 1t is a long
border to watch, and it was not in first
class condition to rePel attacks six weeks
ago. We hope that the war scare will
have the effect at least to impel congress
to see to it that in no future emergency
will this country be in go lame a condi-
ton to repel attacks from without as it
was six weeks ago.-Wardner News.
As TO the message-but it's Of no use
to eritieise it. Perhaps it was the best
he could do. Congressman will waste
breath in calling it weak, timid, etc, ETC.,
but IFS too late to change it. In one
way, at least, it is complete success.
1t throws the entire burden of duty upon
eoDgress-which is exactly where that
burden now belongs. The world knows
now what the final result will be. 1t
may take less than two weeks to accom-
plish it; it may take a year. But when
the trouble is all over. whether in twelve
days or twelve months, Cuba will be
free. Until this end is gained the United
STATES can never rest without sacrificing
every principle Of honor, every claim to
respect among the nations of the world.
Spokane Chronicle.