The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-04-23
The OUTCOME oE II.

III II TOO llte now TO deprecNle
the war or to waste arguments
why it should or should not he
fought.
A war is usually entered into
either because foreign power
menaces the people or property of
nation, because of great insults
or injuries to be redressed, or
from revenge, or tor the acquisi-
ton of territorial or other adyan-
tages The sole reason given for
our war with Spain is set forth in
the resolution by Congress which
embodies these words;
"Abhorrent conditions which
have existed for more than three
years in the island of Cuba, so
near our own borders, have shock
ed the moral sense of the people
of the United States, have been a
disgrace to Christian civilization,
and cannot longer be endured
There is nothing whetoUel in
this OF the destruction of the
Maine and her sleeping sailors; no
intimstion of aggression upon us
by Spain, and no indication nat
America expects to gain anything
by the conflict except the pure
disintereSted satisfaction of re-
lieying an 'abhorrent condition"
Moreover Congress has distinctly
proclaimed that this is not a war
of conquest, in its resolution dis
claiming any intention to exercise
sovereignty or control over Cuba
save for the purpose ofpacihcation.
No one doubts the event of the
war However desperate and gal
liant may be the resistance offered
by Spain, it must be futile against
our overwhelmingly superior
strength. Cuba will be free--that
is, it will be turned over to the
a
hopeless anarchy of mulatto SUI
condition worse than
the reconstruction experience
which we of the South shudder
yet to remember.
As soon as the war is over Cuba
will become a Mecca fer thousands
OF adventures from the United
States, clashes between them and
the native population will arise,
and lawlessness will reign supreme
until the control of the island by
martial law by this country will
become imperative in the interest
Of humanity and for the protection
Of our own citizens. Close to |
Cuba lies the almost equally fair
and favored isle of Haytl-a spot
where every prospect pleases, and
only man is vile" Years ago
Hayti was a French possession. !
As in Cuba its negroes and mixed
breeds rose in the night, murdered
their civilized rulers, and con
verted one Of the fairest lands of
earth into a hideous wilderness.
peopled by sayages more degraded |
than their African progenitors |
The enforced ACQUISITION of Cuba |
leads almost necessarily to that
Of Hayti. If our tender hearted
ness cannot abide the sutferings of |
the reconcentrados so near our
doors, how much less could it en-
lure the cannibal feasts of Hayti |
so much nearer' And yet the in
evitable outcome of the war must |
be the addition sooner or later Of !
he stars of Cuba and Hayti to the |
'pangled banner. 1t may be that
we are carrying out our Anglo
saxon destiny under the guise of
philanthropy. England is fast
'ivilizing and Outstanding
Africa and Asia by means of
Winchester rifles, railroads and
leavy artillery. We cannot af-
ord to be behind. We have al
eady notified Europe that if there
; any ''civilizing and Christian
zing" to be done on this continent
re propose to attend to it our
elves; and the chances are that
a ten or twenty years Cuba and
Eayti will be mighty pretty
inter resorts.