Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-02

4 American scamen were hurled man
rl,d and torn In the swallowing WAVES
Whom I'm China two German mission
aries were killed by heather rabblc
Il German warships entered Chincs'
J port towns and demanded and re
celyrd Indemnity to the nation ant
punishment for the murdcrcra. When
in Hayti one pseudo German either
was wrpngfully imprisoned. German
/ guns were trained upon liaytl's CAPT
tall and the world was taught that 4
4 would cost an Immense sum TO inter
fere with German liberties Had an,
vessel belonging to any European ma
tlou been ruthlcssly destroyed In for
| egn harbor. in twenty-four hours tina
] natlon's heaviest hattle-guns woult
have startled the distant skies will
| their loud-voiced booming.
! It IL humlliating, but 1t ia true. thai
! frequent occasions have proven tha'
the stars and Stripes furnish Amerl.
can citizens abroad scant protection
and our murdered dcad--our bray,
navy heruts-the waters chant theil
requiem; but how must the worit
| have wondered while the days slipped
by and the official head OF the natior
silently maintained his so-called wis,
and firm conservative policy" Hov
did the United states need to hang hel
/ head In shame. when through the ebt
and How OF reports made cur.
rent by themselves, senators
and secretaries could so manipulate
stocks as 10 refill the Golfers exhausted
| in campaign wire-p ullingl oh. my
| country, how wort thou fallen from
the sensitive honor OF thy high estate,
| when one high In tn. White House
could speak unrebuked of that unparal-
leled horror, as the Havana incident!'
| II needed no costly, long drawn court
| Of inquiry; the manner OF the explo-
sion, the condition of the wreck. proved
| In the very beginning that the explo-
sion occurred from external rather
/ Than Internal causes. There was no
external cause possible hut Spanish
hatred. II belonged to Spain to dis
cover the miscreants who did the
abominable deed and deliver them to
the Just punishment OF insulted Amer
| lea.
So only could Spain have indicated
her innocence before the world. In fail
Ing To do this, the Spanish government
| owned itself particeps criminis, itself
the secret. deadly. malignant assas-
SIM and yet month afterward the
President OF these United States re-
ceives with distinguished honor the
envoy OF Spain and assures him that IL
Is the desire OF his heart to bring Spain
and the United states into closer and
more cordial relationsl The survivors
u the Inflated Maine would readily
aver that their relations with Spain
have been quite as close as is consist.
ent with health and safety. The heart
Of the people beats true to Its old patri-
ouc impulses. Who has heard one
whisper of dissent when Congress ap-
tn
need? But. oh for n statesmanship
TO guide the ship of the Union that
measures attitudes by something more
reliable that the interests OF stock ex-
change! oh. for n leadership whose
heroism will not dissolve In any solu-
lion OF gold and whose love OF Father
land means more than protection of
gold depostsl But what of II all to
Cuba?
Between the United States and
Spain the end IL not yet, but what
ever the issue, In the tangle OF con-
diet, Cuba slips the letters from her
limbs and arisen from her degradation
mangled and sore, but free, Can she
govern herself wisely? Has she
coherent force In her heterogeneous
population TO formulate laws, establish
order and purify her desecrated bor-
ders? Doubtless she will blunder and
threaten the new found freedom with
anarchy. But every attempt will de-
'yelop new strength and, at last, out of
her fires of publication, she will emerge
- her own beauty-Cuba libre-Cuba
Nbre.
Ensanguined with the crimson dyes
VI her shed blood, see Cuba rise,
And stretch her fettered hands to thee.
Boosted republic of the freei
How long, In cruel strength, she cries,
Llnger to watch my agony?
Vast not enough that day by day,
Thou'st seen my blood ooze away,
Measured foul murders purple stains,
Seen thresholds smeared with the cleft
brains
% babies? Yet couldst thou delayl
vast not enough? What more re-
mains?
No war in Cuba? Said'st thou so?
What meant. then, the repeated glow
That III the lurld skies with fires,
And made our homesteads funeral
No war; Whence, then, the awful
OF ravished maids and butchered
sires?
NO war; And friendship silken chain
Binding Columbia to Spain?
iark to that decorating peall
The avenging Heavens would make
thee feel
Our Woe, through thine own children
slain,
Crushed meath the treacherous Span
iard's heel.
Was that dread mine. beneath the sea.
only an incident" to thee,
Dealer in stocks with heart grown
cold
10 all appeals but those " gold?
shnll money chain thy suppliant knee,
With honor. pride and country sold2
Nay, still the Stars and Stripes shall
lead
Where freedom wins and tyrants
bleed.
Thy martyrs, treacherously slain.
Shall break fair Cuba's heightened
chainl-
Burned In with fire. the Cubans creed
No vassalnge to, naughty Spaini
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