Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-09
HOT Philippe ON SPAIN.
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public opinion was based, and
they assert the reports to be too
true. General Lee, a man of
great csndor, good ability, and
large experience ia scenes of hor-
ror, reports that 100000 persons
have been starved by the monster
Weyler's plan of campaign, and
Spain, driven by the cries of
shame from the world, admits the
truth by permitting my country
men to send food for the starving
Cubans. Yet the Cardinal as.
serts that there is not particle
of truth in the stories"
The Cardinal says these state
ments are made by the "jingoes,"
who desire to "push on war;" and
who wonld just as read ly push on
an invasion" of Canada and Eng.
land. This seems very like dip
lomatic appeal to the prejudices
OF the British, but it is hardly
worthy of so high an authority.
Who are these "jingoes" the Car
dipal refers to ? The statements
regarding these atrocities come
from thousands who have fed
from Spanish cruelty; from other
thousands of disinterested people
who have made personal Investig-
ations;and they are emphasized by
the photographs of hundreds Of
starving people taken on the spot.
The evidence has convinced TO-.
100000 Americans, besides vast
majority of the British nation, and
it has shocked the enlightened
conscience of the world. As a
fact, the limoges" now include
the Anglo Saxon race and all
other liberty-loving men on Gods
green earth.
The American people say the
skies of Cuba are often lurid with
the flames of burning homes, and
the air is laden with the cries of
murdered and starving innocants,
and they now declare that this
chronic nuisance, this barbarous
despotism, this hotbed of unspeak-
able crime at her very door, shall
be abated. The nation has weigh
ed the evidence, the mass s are
the "jingoes," and because the
British feel a sympathy with a
people struggling for that without
which they theme elves would not
live, the Cardinal warns them to
be on their guard in accepting
not the "jingoes" statements = but
that Of the English newspa-
pers."
Cardinal Moran, by implica-
ton, says America is play ing the
hypocrite, ~ her real purpose ia
the acquisition of Cuba. The
Americans say they do not want,
and would not have, Cuba How
does the Cardinal know that thew
are such arrant hypocrites2 His
Eminence should allow US to
know what We want, aud even to
refuse to take Cuba.
America has declined to accept
Hawaii as gift; yes, she has re
fuse to allow Hawaii to crawl into
her arms. Hawaii is a peaceful
country, with an amiablr people,
while Cuba has a people as vile
as the rule under which they
grew, and we do not want and
will not have them. AS to Canada,
every intelligent Englishman
knows that America would fight
combined Europe rather than see
her partitioned by a foreign
Power.
Spain has owned Cuba nearly
400 years, but instead of making
the Queen of the Antilles" an
earthly paradise, she has made it
an agonizing hell.
The Cardinal is an hi torian.
Does he remember that the wise
council of Salamanca, composed
OF bishops and cardinals, denouuc.
ed che proposed voyage of Colum
bus as impious, tn Sc great men
believing the world to be ft?|
Well, a pastoral letter of "the
Bishop of Madrid"a few days ago,
placing the Spanish forces under
the care of all saiuts," and pro-
missing ''invulnerabIlIty," is evil
dence that Spain VT lives in the
18th century. By an irony of fate
this was settled at faithful" Ma
Mia.
When America was discovered,