The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-01
A SPANISH SYMPATHIzER.


AS a woman, the American people
have most profound respect for the
queen regent of Spain, they fully ap-
preciate or feelings as mother anx-
ious for the inheritance of her son, but
there they stop.
There has just been discovered in
Independence Hall, that sacred home of
liberty, place almost revered by the
! American people, a nest of Spanish
sympathizers. They are none other
/ than the Universal Peace union. This
society had been granted the use of
certain rooms in the historic building.
From this building Mr.. Alfred H. Love,
president of the union, wrote the fol-
| lowing letter:
independence Hall, 500 Chestnut
! Street, Philadelphia, April 81, 1885,
To the Queen Regent of Spain. to Sc
nor Sagasta, Premier, Madrid, Spain:
1t is in our heart to say. as the
I Universal Peace union, representing
many thousand friends of peace in all
parts of the world and now from the
United States, that we have appreciat-
ed your several concessions in this Gu
ban trouble in behalf of peace, and we
real representatives of the American
heart. that we believe all that is de-
sired could be obtained by peaceful
means.
Our President Mckinley, we have
reason to believe. has been forced into
his present attitude. You know he is
the executive of this government The
Peace union is cosmopolitan. We have,
we believe, still in your senate one of
our vice presidents. Arturo de Mar
coartu. Years ago we prevented filibus-
tering expeditions against your inter
ests; We have been doing the same now
When Mr.. Wilcox, our vice president.
visited you, years ago, you treated him
handsomely, and you expressed your
appreciation.
You must know, then, our sincerity.
1t is a rule with us not to ask another
to do what we would not do ourselves:
we say, observe the golden rule" We
would do what we now suggest for you
to grant
Oh. how you would elevate your ma
toni What a contribution to this age
of intelligence if you could send a mes
sage to America.
Our hearts are full of sympathy for
you in your no doubt embarrassed po-
sition, but the right will sustain you.
Our country would receive you if your
people rebel in your efforts to avail
of any opening to still avert war and
meet the demands of humanity, free
dom and peace.
1t will be noted that the letter bears
the same date as that which congress
declared war to exist from. This letter
was intercepted in the mails and re-
turned to Mr.. Love. The sentiments it
contains are little less than treason
able, certainly as unpatriotic as posi- |
BILE. Every member of the Universal I
Peace union should blush that its pres /
ident should ever have penned such a
letter Mr.. Love no doubt pretends to
be an American citizen, but how I'M |
worthy Of a citizen are his sentimentsl |
How different his sentiments from
those of Mr.. Tallack,. himself Quaker |
and the president of the British Prison |
association, and the legitimate success
sor of John Howard He commends |
in the highest terms the course of this |
and rejoices to think that
the day when Spain's iniquities shall
cease on a part of the earth, at least.
Is close at hand
Mr.. Love has succeeded in bringing
himself and his society into the great
est possible disrepute.