Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-28

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through. The discipline maintained
is the firmest on earth. 1t is especial
ly rigorous in the protection of the
rights of women and children. An
outrage upon woman meets with in
slant death. 1t should be remembered,
too, that the proudest army that Spain
has ever sent to the American shores
has failed to subdue the Cubans. More
over, whatever may have been the
tenor of American sympathy in 1875, il
is now overwhelmingly with the Gu
bans President Grants message to
Congress in 1875 cannot in equity be
regarded as an indication of what his
attitude would be towards the present
struggle were he alive to-day.
The facts are that an island only
sixty miles from our shores is made
devastate by the cruelest war that
ever blotted the pages Of history. The
war has been pursued, not against the
armed and able, but with pitiless fury
against the defenseless as WELL Hun
dreds of thousands of Cuban women.
children and old men have been cru
ely and purposely starved to death.
The cry of humanity that it should
cease is growing louder and louder
and will clamor in the ears of the
entIe world before long. Yet the
administration at Washington has
waited for years before sending
warship even to protect Ameri-
can interests in the island Why?
Because Hanna's man, President of the
United States. has been afraid, not
only of poor old decrepit Spain, but of
creating a war scare that might dis
turb stocks and bonds in Wall street.
The Hannacratic organs know this
full WE'LL for they know exactly what
influences control absolutely the pres
ent administration Pecksniff,
himself, has had goodly taste Of the
Hannacratic fieshpOts.
Indeed, there would not be an Amer
lean warship at Havana to-day, despite
the pressing emergency, if the clamor
had not grown so great about the
ears of our weak President that he was
forced-actually forced-to send one
there in order to pacify indignant, dis
gusted and outraged members of his
avn party in Congress, who threatened
that unless he showed some activity
and patriotism in that direction they
would revolt and force the passage OF
the Cuban belligerency resolution,
which passed the Senate last session.
In this connection, special Washing
ton dispatch to a contemporary, which
cannot be accused of either hostility
to the administration, or lack of Re-
publicanism, and which is firm in its
goldbuggery, namely, the Pittsburg
Dispatch, says:
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26;-From inquiry
among members of the Foreign Affairs
Committee in the House 1t appears that
the administration acted none too quickly
in sending a warship to Havana. Mem
berS of this committee have been grow
ing restless of late at the policy OF mac
ton, and some of the Western and South
ern members have threatened to break
away from Chairman Hit and Speaker
Reed and force the report of a resolution
recognizing Cuban beiligereney: IN, me
growing steadily more persistent and
word was conveyed to the President that
1t would be difficult to keep down a dem
onstra ton in the House unless the admin
istration began to show some sign OF ac-
tivity.
In other words, the weakened gen.
tleman in the White House found his
hand forced and. SO he fastened to
send the cruiser Maine to Havana, ION
a friendly visit, only" as he apollo
ter De LONE, to whom our President
has been in constant attitude of apol-
ogy for everything done in Congress
or by the people in aid of Cuba or
in sympathy for the struggling patriots.
In other words, Lad not Mckinley been
forced to the action there would be
harbor to-day, although not only
American interests have been suffer-
ing. but our governments chief repre-
sentative in the island has been threat
ened with violence AS we have said
a warship should have been sent to
Cuba at least two years ago-not only
one but two or three warships-to
look after American interests there.
There is no other nation on earth that
would not have sent a warship there
Immediately on the breaking out of
hostilities years ago. And right here
we wish to nail another of Pecksniff's
brazen falsehoods. He says:
The President has protected American
citizens and has relieved the destitute, Gin
from our neighbor above quoted.)
How has he protected those hundreds
and hundreds of American citi-
zens in Cuba have been penned up like
cattle with the reconcentrados, without
means of support, because of Spanish
brutal methods Of warfare? The
most our. brave and patriotic Presi-
dent could be prevailed upon to do was
send them aims through a Congress
sional appropriation.
The brazen and hypocritical organ
of Hanna and the money power knows
these things and it stomachs the ad-