The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-25
AMERICAN ARMs

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The Century Magazine Tor September
will contain an article on America,
spain and France. BY Emile Olivier,
member of the French Academy and
ex-prime minister Of France, from
which the following arc extracts:
To save what remained to her Of her
American colonies, TO keep Cuba and
the Philippines, Spain should have
studied the best interests Of the lnhab-
itauts with redoubled zeal. She should
have ruled with velvet hand. whereas
she was harder than ever. More than
ever she turned those wonderful lands
into battening-tields for her ruined no"
bles, for her fOrtune-seelSing favorites.
In 1870, when was minister re-
ceIved deputation OF Cubnns, who
came to beg me to remedy their Ills and
to intervene In their behalf And now,
the discomfort having reached the htgh-
est degree OF INTENSITY, Cuba reYolts and
calls for help. and the emancipation
movement began In 1890 approaches
fruition. What Spain still holds is on
the point OF being taken from her. All
Americn, with the exception OF few
islands Of no consequence, Is to belong
to the Americans. The republican cons
tInent, freed from one end to the other,
will become more and more hostile, or
at least stand in opposition. TO the old
continent, where st!il prevail dyDasties
and monurchial systems.
Should any complaint be made at the
final expulsion of Spain? Should there
be an objection to the emancipation OF
Cuba, and should II be looked upon as
a misfortune? Certainly not We should
see in 1t only the Just decree OF heaven,
The French, after having spread over
Europe more widely than the Spanish,
were pushed back within their own
boundaries. But on retiring they left
behind them. like the Nile after ala In
undatlon, fertile deposit. There Is
not nation where the French have been
which has not preserved to this day
So true Is this that their great man Ma
poleon has remained the great man Of
all European peoples
But when the Spaniards retired from
the countries which had come under
their dominion. what did they leave?
Nothing but disagreeable cultural as
piration, such as was introduced Into
Italy. into the soft Tuscan dialect. They
would like now to exterminate the Gu
bans and make them suffer the fate TO
which they subjected the Moors, the In
dlans and the heretics. In this connec-
tlOn II Is only necessary to recall the
horrible tragedies associated with the
name Weyler.
Is 1t surprising that the Cubans object
to being exterminated; that they strug-
gle and resist. AM that feeling theHls
serves too feeble, they cry out for help?
Is II astonishing that the Americans
who hear these despairing calls should
have stepped forward to put an end to
this scandal paraded at its very doors
and before its very eyes? How dare
anybody pretend that such an act of
humanity Is a violation OF the rules Of
international honor. Of the prescriptions
OF Justice and the exigencles of law?
Such reproaches would be unjustlfied
and tniquitous coming from any quar-
ter, but coming from France they would
be absolutely incomprehenslble. Spain
once driven out of Cuba, the United
States will be content either to leave the
Cubans free to establish an independent
and autonomous republic. or. for certain
reasons, the enfranchiscd island Will be
annexed and become new stale in the
federal union.
In either case the cubans will be
gamers. Spain herself will profit by her
inevitable defent.
At the moment when France lost Can
ada one Of her statesmen said: "If
some day France is deprived of her In
suiar possessions, as she has been Of
her continental colonies. she Will DO
found to 80 on prospecting by means OF
her own resources. In fact, she may
surpass them in happiness and tranquil
lily"
This prediction would unuuestIonably
be true II applied TO Spain. Cuba, which
cannot be pacihcd, is like a devouring
canker in her side which exhausts her
resources and sterllizes her efforts.
When she shall have been cured Of 1t.
and then falls back on herself, she may
succeed. perhaps, in checking the down
ward tendency which Is leading to n
most threatening decay.
Since the fall OF Napoleon Spain has
become what Poland WASH field OF dis
cord and anarchy. She has orators,
Jurists, poets, writer's. but they are all,
In greater or less edgree, tlEctured with
Hnarchisul. No one seems to have a
firm, sure and practical idea OF govern
ment
How, then. would It be possible for
Spain to govern well her colonies when
she Is so manlfestly Incapable Of gov
crning herself? How could she display
beyond the seas wisdom which she
had never shown at home?
We do not hesitate. therefore, in tho
name of Justice and right, of humanity
and liberty, to range ourselves on the
side Of America. That certain Interest,"
ed motives and unaclnowlcdgei consld-
crations mny be mingled with the gen
erous impulses which have prompted her
to take sides with Cuba Is quite posi-
bic, but this impure alloy cannot blind
us to the general character of the en-
tcrprise. However covetous some of
her citizens may be, the United States
in this instance is not freebooter. She
is liberator, and the Eternal will be
Just in browning her arms with victory,
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