The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-11

public. From that Inflated moment when
our nag went DOWN IN Spanish waters war
| was demanded. fire OF revenge was
klndled IL the hearts of the American
people that nothing could thoroughly ex-
tinguish but copious alnout of blood
letting.
a monetary consideration would have
been acceoted in accordance with the
sanctions of international lew that places
property in the balance against human
blood. but that never would have been
accepted by the people as sufficient re-
paration. Blood must flow. and flowing
It IS. The news of the explosion was
firing the imagination to the widest pitch.
and wave of public opinion as irresist-
ole as fate itself forthwith swept over
the land from one end TO the other. clam
oring for war. The administration dare
not run counter TO this formidable poten-
tlality. The war became inevitable from
the sinking of the Maine. which fatality
hastened its contamination. The political
condition of the Cubans, however pitiabie
would not have been of sufficient serious
ness to have precipitated the war so soon,
ana IN all probability would have been
successfully averted by the exercise of
proper diplomacy.
But see how absurd the situation does
seem; for the sum of SIS Geo 600 Spain and
this nation could have escaped the ca-c-
mites OF war. a simple money indemnify.
IN other words, monetary remuneration
would nave been accepted in the place of
human blood or immortal souls, and If
the money was not forthcoming blood
must be expended, together with many
times the amount of the demanded indem-
nifty OF the nations property. But then it
is said this is the well-estabished custom
and practice of nations, that has come
down to US from immemorial ages, in
seeking PREPARATION for a wrong and we
must not now depart from it because in
the contingency of a peaceful and blood
less solution of the difficulty our national
honor might be imperiled. the strongholds
OF our security undermined and danger
Gus precedent in harmony with the teach
lngS of Chris tianity might be established
But despite al our moralizing. Chris
slanlzing and theorizing. it must be con-
coded that the war today presents to the
world grand and glorious aspect what
ever the changing consequences to this
government may be or to the balance of
receive its impetus from the spirit of
retaliation, but there IS q nobler and
loftier force back of It all. 1t is that
which is bern Of human sympathy of mis-
fortune. the love of liberty. the irreores-
sible aspiration of the Anelo-Saxon to
cleanse the political atmosphere of earth
from its elements of discord, of tyranny
and desDotism
Should we not enter upon an era of CO.
lonial expansion, of territorial aggran-
dizement (Which we will do. the moral
consequences of the war would be of in
estimable advantage to mankind. and a
monument of inefaceable glory and gran
deur would have been erected over the
tonbs of this generation as an everlast-
ing tribute to its earnest. advanced and
dtsintereSted humanity. But the die is
cast. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is the policy. and
the adVaneurous avarice and greed of
man viii rob the republic of the virtue
and glory of what otherwise would be an
immortal achievement.
ELIJAH FARR
Ogden, Utah, July 4.
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