Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-24
AS VIEWED BY EDITORS.
Opinion of Leading metropolitan Pa.

Opinion of Leading metropolitan Pa
Ders Upon the Maine Disaster,
1t seems sufficiently clear that our nav
is lacking in discipline. Vok,
blatt.
Either great crime has been commit
ted or there has been an amazing pjec
Of laundering carelessness.- chicago Rel
ord.
If the Maine and $50 of her men hav
been lost through Spanish trcachcry Il
Spain take the consequences CincinnaI
Enquirer.
TO attempt to pass Judgment on ID
Maine disaster with the present inform|
ton would be the height of foly.-DI
troit News.
The first duty of the country with n
gard to the terrible tragedy is to kea
cool, that we may learn the facts.-Bol
ton Transcript.
There is nothing in the reports to offs
the fearful suspicion that the Maine WI
deliberately destroyed by Spanish ID
Cincinnati Timcs-Star.
No possible explanation can stiAe t
voice Of the people calling for interventi I
in the interest of Cuba by our Cover
ment.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The American people should deci
whether playing at war is not too eXpd
sive an amusement when it entails Su
terrible cost.-Chicago Chronicle.
The people believe the burden of PRO
rests upon Spain to demonstrate beyoE
cavil that the blowing up of the Nal
was an Acknowledgement Commerce
Tribune.
Many modern battle ships have bq
wrecked in a similar way and just as sY
denly without any reasonable ground
suspicion of an attempt at wholesale IN
der.-Chicago Stats Zeitung.
All this occurred in the harbor OF
friendly nation" Now let the Spanla
prove their friendship by absolyng ing
selves from all responsibility for the
tastrophe.-St. Louis Republic
There are scores of possible expla
tions, each of which would seem more
sonable than the base insinuatons asai
the nation whose hospitality our rel
sentatives were enjoying. hllauell
Record
The disaster to one of the finest 81
of our navy and the sacrltlce OF 50 III
brave lives, not to the formal delei,SG
the country, but to a strange anu ny
BILE fate, casts gloom over the "l'oie
tion.-St. Paul Globe.
The American people are not so cal'I
cd by prejudice as to close 'heir eye
ears to the probability that the cNplo
was due to causes with Whlcl 'ne
ish Government could have no remote
nection.-Detroit Journal.
Sober second thought will carry COZ
ton to all fair and open minded men
it is better to await the results VI ."
yestigation before jumping to the CO..
sion that Spanish malice is at Inc ~
of it.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
Has treachery been added to CUP"
will be the almost universal mum IN
which a reply will be awaited WI" W:
deepest interest throughout the H"lO
such were the case it would oaNe -"
the crime Of the century.
une.
The susnicion of Spanish treachery
bihited bv a section of American op,
looks i'll beside the accounts ol u: INV ca
did eallantry of the suspects ID :"
drowning Americans, and 1t in 'non n
ugly temper toward SpaIn'-Loiiu'D
Mail. H.,
1+;s ;mnossible to refrain from the
picion that the explosion MA! ,' H"t for
caused by foul means. lhat 'i 4ho ba
event should have occurred IN the L n'
of Havana renders a solution OIL 'T 10,
low 70 Of international importance
Globe.
If IIidalgo hatred of americans srs,r
nm the Maine then the price OIL e
must be paid for in Spanish so gov Oh
an'o,,nt Of snch damages might rGa'I
al,lo GOO y bnt It would have to be
coming or the DIh pa"
cinnati Evening Post .,oul
It is not surprising that ther II the tbe
many wild rumors ahoat, for ~ this d
ent strained relations 6e Nv !, natural
try and Spain there will De ' a n TO
dency to attribute the e. ~ arepts
Snaniard+if not to the nJaua
the Spanish Govcrnment'-'D
News. an annihia
fie ships through hnou accden or p
ment, and the terrible ~ another
Havana harbor may be out That That have
long series of misfortuhIe a Ct few yea
fallen our navy in the iaS'
na%roif Free Press.