The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-18
MISERIES OF AMERICANS.
Elijah Farr Finds Cause For War
Right at Home.

] Ogden, Utah, April ls, 1895.
! Editor The Herald:
The spectacle OF going to war with
Spain to secure the emancipation of the
malcontents or Cuba from the atroc,ous
domination of Spanish AUTHORITY is indeed
strange and extraordinary especially
when we reflect that the liberation of the
unfortunate millions of miserable. Wret CHI
ca ana hai1 starved American citizens
from the cruel supremacy OF corporate
greed and diabolism is an object so much
more worthy the ambition and aspirations
OF a great people.
The government of the United States is
ostenslo!y very Solicitous of the welfare
and happiness of the Cuban insurgents
so much SO It IS anxious and willing, TO
soVereigntieS in the unsDeakable horrors
or savage war, While at home under the
very majesty of her own starry canopy,
II permits ana even wages and directs
war upon the weak, inofTensive and de-
fenseiess architects of Americas glory
anG greatness. vastly more comprehensive
ana far-reaehin- in the intensity of its
oeStrcctlYeneSS than exists or could pos
slbiy exist by reason of Spanish ruffianisEi
| in the Antilles.
The. tyranny ard oppression of the
American people, the legitimate offspring
or amalgamated resources and enthroned
capital, is far more blighting and deyaS-
tating to the hopes. the happiness and
tne onward ana inward advancement OF
civilized society and industrialism than
could possibly be hundred problems of
the comparatively insignifican Mt mae11ituda
OF the pending SDanish-American diff
culty. ana yet the miserable victims of the
American caDitaistic system the motley
array OF American slaves. are willing to
a az: :.l, to the God of hosts, and let slip
foreign power from the western hemi-
sphere.
Avowedly wholesome considerations of
an aehngntened christianity, of humanity
and civilization, form the basis of our
proposed intervention in Cuba III that be
true and exclusively so. how much more
meritorious and substantial would be the
motives OF q powerful concert of Euro
pean states, organized for the purpose
OF intervention in the domestic affairs of
the United States. TO put an end to the
tragic drama of nonoDolistic iIslrnation
and plumber of American rights and Iih-
critics that is being carried on under the
Shastly sanction of law. througho,,t the
ti Hoeiil VI our great empire at the present
tline. NO government no age. ever con-
,enued, ever struggled against a more re-
lentless and formidable enemy of free in
stltations and the rights of man. than
tllng against today
II dfsDassionate observer would On
INTO the mining and manufacturing dis
III o,id'S III oL our great commonwealth today
anu anu look INTO the faces of the Door helm
less, hopeless opera ives; of the ra pgediv
clad ana half-starved wives and children.
viii tneir care-Worn and pale and hag-
gdru expressions and would NOT say that
our war, instead of being against Snain
dor the emanciDation of Cuba. sh aid be
directed with all its ingenuity and i'm
petuoslty against the legalized Iruffians
and aSsasslns who are chargeable and re-
i Sp9asloie LOT these conditions. he would
indeed be destitute of the elennapts of
manhood manhood and patriotism and an unworthy
IrSp.reseItdtlve OF advanced civilization.
But we are determined 10 have war and
a. the present .juncture. with all the eio-
gHenL taik and argument of a thousand
heLTy Gays for peace. the spirit of var
t t not be suppressed. to such an ex
tent mas the press inf1amed the public
mIlnd, and 10 such an extent are we de-
s!irous OF entailing an enormous destruc-
Lon OF human life and property. and tn
near tne snrieSs and screams and cries
oL nlutIlated humanity. and to enrich the
aristocracE and to fasten upon Dosferitv
an q ! ,nsuifera bic servitude in the form Of
aouiuonal bonded obligations and that
b boSo,lSE also may indulge in the time
i, non occupation of war. And so there
ma, ,i always been. and is now. and will he
wars ana rumors of war. until he con,eS
VINO is the expectation of nationS I" 10
reign IN peace fora thousand wears mon
H. ELIJAH FARR.