The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-24

can be held to answer even in money
indemnity At the most, pecunlary SET
Element of the difficulty is the only one
besides the subsJantiatiOn of the accident
theory that is remotely probable, and IN
less a crime shall be proved against Spain
interference other than the most friendly
on our part. on old grounds that no long
or exist ought to be out of the question
"Oh. Lord what a pity Who could
have been heartless enough TO disturb
good people? And such good people! PeO-
pie so good that the explosion OF the
Maine beneath which the earth trer-
bled did not move them. Two hundred
and fifty brave men torn into shreds OF
flesh and clothed blood, five hundred help
less hands grasping for their weapons
and finding only the roaring OF foul wa
ters. the blackness of night the flames OF
hell, and still these good men undisturb-
ed A brave people whom we taught 20
| love freedom swimming in sea OF blood
| at our feet and yet undisturbed! Three
| hundred thousand starved dead three
| hundred thousand more falling hour by
| hour. their skeleton hands stretched out
| for bread. and yet these good people Sc
renely calm.
| 1T ought to be capital offense for
| yellow preachers. yellow journals. I'M
| goes and dancing d,rvishes to disturb such
| sanity people. These are precious specl-
| mems of the human race. They ought not
| TO be disturbed They ought to be en-
| baImed and preserved as freaks for the
| study of future generations.
| Martial war means blOOdShed- But II
| means more 1t means the rouSing OF the
| noblest sentiments of humanity. 1t means
| solidarity. courage honor, sacrifice by the
| picked men of a nation. War does not
| kill women children. the aged, the Grip
| pied or the wounded.
| IF war is hell what is Spain waging
| in Cuba? There must be new definition
of hell to get a basis of comparison. Self
| ish brutes weak-mnded women and she
men CRY. peace, peace. when there is no
| peace. The most horrible example OF mar
| tiaI war this world ever saw was the
| sweep of Tamerlane's victorious hordes
| Tanerlane made a pyramid of the skulls
| of his victims at Damascus There were
70 coo in this terrible monument. Spain
has devastated Cuba for three years only,
| and her victims number at least 100000
| starved to death, besides the slain in bat
| tie Their skulls would make a pyramid
| four times the size of Tamerlane's- And
this. in the closing days of the nineteenth
| century within ninety miles of the great
republic. whose flag is the symbol of the
| liberty. equality and fraternity of man.
| Il am not cIamoring for the horrors OF
| war-but in the name of God, in the name
of humanity | demand that this war shall
cease-the most cruel the most brutal tue
most inhuman ever waged in this cen
| fury.
The time for hesitation. delay, dipio-
macy. idle talk is gone. God Almighty
will hold the American nation responsible
for Cuba No matter how the Maine was
destroyed. the awful fact Of Spain in
cuba remains. The destruction of one
warship and the death of our sailors Is
nothing to this fact.
cuba must be free. The cause of hui
mainly demands it, Let the enemies OF
Cuba take notice The cause of Cuba IS
now our cause. A traitor TO one Is q
traitor to both. Our blood has mingled In
sacrificiaI offering with theirs. Money
cannot pay for it, Martyrdom is tbs
| price of freedom. Cuba, brave httlS
| hlOod-robed queen of the Southern seas
thy cry of agony has been heard at las
by a great people! Our people have beer
slow to anger, but now aroused, thel'
tread shakes the earth. Thy freedom /.
as sure as that God and humanity La,
in this republic!'