The times., 1898-05-16

dent in Rome which. if there is no mis-
take about it, is both important and
significant of the policy which the Vati-
can and Austria have doubtless ouln-
bincd to carry out If they can. Ac
ccrding to the Journal statement Of
an interview with the cardinal, that
dignitary said:
With the victory at the Philippines the United
States has given complete satisfaction TO Spain's
national pride. 1t would be a serious fault to
continue the barbarcus disastrous war. The
United States cannot desire to deprive Spain
OF all her colonies. Spain is no longer iso-
lated. She can resign herself to making painful
territorial sacrifices, TO which she is advised by
the whole OF Europe. but Spain cannot sacrifice
everything Europe will not permit it.
So far as the remarks attributed to
Cardinal Rampolla refer to political
or international aspects of the ques-
ton, they are unimportant. When he
says that Europe will not permit Amer
lea to reap the fruits of war beyond
given point. he merely gives utterance
to a sentiment and a hope, in neither
of which he has any active companion
ship or support except in the court of
Vienna
To us what he is reported to have
said is chiefly interesting in the sense
that it illustrates with great clearness
the inability of most statesmen and
other prominent persons of the Latin
race to understand the motives of the
American people in their punitive ac-
ton against Spain. When the gays the
United States cannot desire to deprive
Spain Of all her colonies" he shows
himself unable to appreciate the end
which the United States was seeking
in making war Merely for the sake
of possessing themselves of territory
belonging TO another nation, the peo
pie of this country would never arm
themselves or allow their Government
to fire a gun. In the present instance
they have never thought of a war with
conquest as its object. They have been
goaded to relentless fury by the spec
tacle of medieval barbarism, of whole
sale torture, rape and butchery at their
doors, until they have been reluctantly
compelled in the interests of suffering
humanity, to denounce Spain as an out
law and the common enemy of man
kind, TO decree her expulsion from the
Western Hemisphere, and the destruc-
ton OF her hellish power over subject
peoples wherever it could be effected.
From that point of view, the United
States does wish and intend to de-
prive Spain Of every bit of power it
can, outside of the Iberian peninsula,
which. as it is an integral part of Eu-
rope. must be left to the great powers
of the Continent. Under ordinary cir
cumstances, We would not have thought
OF crossing the Pacific to capture the
Philippines; but, having taken them
honorably, in open war, the American
people would fight all creation rather
than relegate their oppressed inhabi-
tants to the merciless clutches Of cruel.
rotten Spain.
1t is undoubtedly the Eastern archi-
pelago that Cardinal Rampolla has in
mind when he says that Europe will
not permit Spain to sacrifice every
thing. He is merely mistaken on that
point, That rag Of blood and gold has
seen its last day to wave in the sunlit
air of the Philippines. 1t has been re-
/ placed for good and all by the emblem
! of liberty and humanity-the ensign
! of America