The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-03-30
COLD COMFORTS FOR SPAIN.
Comuc.tI OF The British PIcys o1 TIE
Marie RcrOrt

Below we print some extracts from
the English press on the report of the
board Of inquiry in the blowing up Of
the Maine.
The London Daily Mail which re-
CARDS war between the United States
end Spain as sinevitable says: Amer
lea will naturally triumph and earn
the worlds praise Tor ridding Cdba Of
ruthless tyranny, but she will fight at
disao vantage If compelled to fight
imms dlalely."
Tne London Daily Graphic says:
1T is the duty OF both sides to obtain
an independent investigation. To
send assistance to the non combatants
in Cuba is to force war. President
Mckinley should either help the Sa-
gasla cabinet make home rule reall-
ty OF should give Spain notice to
quit"
The London Morning Eost says:
"The gravity of the Cub4n question
is enormously increased ~ the Amer
ican report, because, even if no distinct
Indictment of the Spanish governmsut
is included. the reserve hitherto main
tained will be abandoned and Spain
viii be charged by the American pa
pers with treachery and malice, while
The American people will be excited
to fever point. Spain, however, has
already borne so much that conflict
may sill be avoided, but if her object
has only been to gain time, it may 5e
that she is now in position 10 adopt
a more martial attitude"
The London Daily Telegraph says:
''Supposing the American report 10 be
sub,,an inflated, there can be no question
that Spain is primarily responsible, as
any country would BE- ii a similar
catastrophe occurred along its coast
line. II the Spanish authorities were
ignorant Of the position OF the suoma'
rlLe mines, their ignorance is culpa.
bic. II they were aware and omitted
to warn their guests, their position is
still less defensiole. the report adds
fuel to the flame. If the task OF dip
lomatists and statesmen was arduous
before, il is ten times more difficult
now."
The London Daily Chronicle, after
expressing a doubt whether the Span
ish inquiry has been conducted as
carefully as the American, the report
of whose commission, it says. IS in
harmony with all the probabilities Of
the case" proceeds to review the
principal aspects of the question.
The patience of the Washington
government" says the Daily Chroni'
Gle, "and the calm, pacific policy OF
the President have besn beyond all
praise. Had the people of the United
States been polled on the question,
war would have besn declared before
now, not, as has been falsely suggest.
ed, on account of financial and com.
mercial interests, but on grounds OF
humanity and because OF the intolera.
Bile stencil OF this open sore close to
the borders of the great epuolic. But
il is evident that the time for action
has arrived. President MaKlnley
must take such steps as to challenge
in the most direct way Spain's right 10
murder her revolted colonists any
longer. If she attempts to resist the
provisioning of starving Cubans from
American ports, war there will and
must be, quite apart from any treach-
cry to tbs American Warsnip. De-
spite all rumors, it is quite certain
that Spain will have no allies and the
result will be the liberation Of Cuba. "