The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09

to work, too shiftless to study and too
smart to take good advice. 1t makes us
weary to see a lot of the newspaper fell
lows jump onto Webb when they don't
know anything more about the matter
than hog does of war.
THE MAINE Kansas City Times
"S%"Sn % (Dem): Mr.. Mckinley
ArTA1n' must feel rather uncom-
Portable over the Maine catastrophe. II
he had redeemed his promises to inter-
fere in behalf Of the Cubans the trouble
would have ended long ago and there
would have been no mysterious eXplo
sion of an American warship in Havana
harbor.
Hiawatha World (Rep.): By avoiding
war without sacrificing the honor of this
nation President Mckinley and Congress
will reveal the highest sort of states
manship.
Minneapolis Better Way (Pop.) To
say that the Maine disaster was an ac-
cident, Is to say that our navy is more
dangerous to ourselves than to our enc
mics. A nice confession, truly.
Scammon Miner Three years ago
yesterday the present insurrection In
Cuba broke out. II Spain cannot con-
quer little island like Cuba in three
years, how does she expect to whip I'M
Gle Sam? Why don't they whip Cuba,
and talk about their fighting qualities
afterwards?
Pratt Union (Pop): 1t is right to be
patient and careful in determining the
cause of the disaster to the Maine, but
there seems to be tendency to timidity
or cowardice in the present great delay.
| However, the President has better op-
portunities for learning the real truth
than we have.
Lyons Republican: If the Topeka
State Journal, Kansas City Times, the
New York Journal and few other such
papers had their way, this country would
now be in the midst Of great war with
Spain--and that without knowing
whether the Spanish government had
any more to do with the destruction of
the Maine than did the government OF
Russia.
Kansas City Times (Dem.): In trying
to suppress news from Havana the ad-
ministration is taking course emf
nently calculated to make the American
lose patience and confidence in it's Amer
icanism. 1t is time the old idea Of hood
winking the sovereign people should be
abandoned in this free country. There Is
nothing to be gained by such tactics
and everything to lose.
| 0ot4oo1,,ooJ U,oIIs povotIVa IDou \. 7,
seems to us there has been too much
haste in the American people charging
the Spaniard with destroying the Maine
No act that the Spaniard could commit
would be more foolish than to purposely
destroy a war vessel in the absence Of 8
declaration of war, unless they did Il
purposely to bring on war. Spain GER
tainly cannot be seeking war witt
America.
Norton Champion: Suppose the Maine
was blown up by magazine planted IL
Havana harbor; unless the explosion oc
Cured through the direction Of some
Spanish ofYcer with orders from Spain
it is not matter for declaration Of war
The work of a fanatic or an isolated
enemy OF the United States is problem
for arbitration and indemnity. Their
seems to be no occasion for war at pres
ent in SO much that all Spanish author
ity, civil and military, offer us sympath.
and coincidence.
New York World: The destruction O
the Maine has at once raised clamO
for big appropriations for battleshipf
By listening attentively the trained ca
discovers that these sounds do not com
from all directions, but only from thOs