The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-03

ulis IN the Spanish ranks and on their
own account In any event, the respon-
ability Of Spain for he murder of those
brave American seamen has never for
one moment been Lost sight OF by q sim
Gle American. from the President to the
humblest citizen. Nor vim the Ameri-
can government forget the victims of
that tragedy In the final settlement,
when Spain 70 compelled to pay more
dearly than She has already paid in the
surrender Of her most valuable terri
tory. And the families of those victims
win not be forgotten; every one Of them
win be substantially remembered.
whether cash indemnity for the Maine
victims win be demanded of Spain or
not they are as much in the mind OF the
government in fixing the cost Spain
,shali pay IN other ways as IS any other
sacrihce made by this country As to
money indemnlties in connection with
the war OF peace settlement, Just as we
may be pleased 70 term It, that would
Involve the grave and dlnicuit problem
as to whether or not Il Is possible to
squeeze blood from a turnip."
A nation, or rather the relic OF q ma
don, which through BANKRUPTCY and
AFFECT poverty, is unable TO relieve Its
own slarYlng soldiers who are fighting
its battles, and the distress Of It's mill
lions OF poor at home, which is holding
out It's hands to European neighbors
praying for charity, and which will be
rendered stlll poorer through the loss Of
valuable possessions as a result of It's
own foolish polIcy-With a hopeless state
OF indebtedness augmented by the pres
ent war, and which will be obliged to
pay the S5OO.OOOOOO Cuban debt after
Cuba is lost-such a nation Is as lneom-
petent TO pay a heavy indemnify as st
is to save itself from the consequences
Of Its outrages on humanity.
Whether indemnity In money is col
lected from Spain or not the victims OF
the Maine will be remembered by the
United States, and Spain will pay in
other ways for her responsibility in that
awful tragedy. In losses of valued pos
sessions and the sources of enormous
revenues which have sustained a cor
rupt government, in humiliation to her
boasted ''honor," and in the domestic
reckoning, which IS TO come. she Is real
izlng and paying for her responsibility
now, and will realize more Of it in the
future
However magnanimous our humane
President has been to a conquered foe,
which has shown itself little worthy Of
consideration, the Maine and the VIC
Tins Of Spanish treachery have mot been
forgotten. Nor win Spain be forgotten.
She win be, in the history OF the future,
remembered only as once powerful ma
ton that, after centuries Of degener-
aey from great estate from which she
welded an influence in the world, was
brought to an end precipItated by
treacherous act of her agents in the har-
Dor at Havana. That was the begin
ming Of the end of Spanish supremacy,
and in the contemplation Of her fate in
the future the Maine will be remem-
bered in connection with It Money in-
demnity from a doomed. poverty
stricken and decaying monarchy will
not pay the loss of the heroes of this
great republic. The obligation to the
victims and their surviving families will
be met by the people of the Nation
which is honoring their memories.