The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-07
THINKS WAR INEVITABLE.
Senator Frye Believes Indemnity Will
BE Demnnded and Refused.


Be Demanded and Refused.
BOSTON, Mass. March 6.-The Journals
Washington correspondent says: Senator
Frye, of Maine, member of the foreign
relations committee said to-day to me: II
think there will be war. 1 do not see how
it can possibly be avoided without dishonor
to the United States. 1 feel absolutely GER
tain that the board of inquiry will report
that the Maine was blown up by an out
side agency. From the information that
has come into my possession 1 believe that
conclusion to be unavoidable
THE least that this country can do I'M
der these circumstances is to demand, as
Secretary Sherman stated, good round
sum in indemnity. Spain will not pay IT,
The pride of the Spanish people is perhaps
too great to permit them to agree to such
proposition, and, moreover, there is a
large body of Spanish people who seem to
desire war with the United States. Spain
is doing everything in the way of preparing
LOT coni1ict, and believe that it will GER
tainiy take place. If the indemnity is re-
low.
But altogether aside from the question
anecting the destruction of the Maine. there
IS the awful and inhuman process now GO
Ing on in Cuba of DISCRIMINATING the innao-
itants by starvation. The Spaniards in
Cuba numbered at the last census only an
eighth of the population. According 20 pri-
vate and official reports that have come Into
my possession, more than twice that nun
Der of people have already been starved To
death in Cuba.
President Cleveland and President Nc
kinley both gave notice that the time would
come when this country would be toroeu 10
intervene to stop the war unless Spain
stopped 1T. There is less probability at the
present of Spain ending the war than at
any time previous since it began.
Can our government longer delay inter
VentioH and permit the continuance of the
most monstrous crime of modern times-the
wholesale starvation of the people-Without
running the risk of being practically Wiped
out of existence at the coming congressional
election and receiving the seal of the con-
demnation of the American people?
Intervention cannot much longer be de-
layed. Spain will do nothing and can do
nothing, from the temper of her people ex-
cept to continue on as she has been doing
tinue in that way. l can see no way out of
1t excepting in a war, and l believe that it
Will certainly follow.
There are certain commercial interests
opposed to such war, but the pledges of
our party, the pledges of two Presidents
Cleveland and Mckinley, and the interests
of humanity, require that we should inter-
Vene. The spirit OF the American people
would sweep away the mere question of
dollars and cents that stands in the way
of such Intervention. / do not regard war
believe that II would end in a very short
time; but whether or not that be the case
the honor of the American people demands
and requires such an Intervention.
II firmly believe that President Mckinley
Is thoroughly in sympathy with this feel
ing, as he has shown by the words he mas
spoken on this Cuban question. and that
Intervention viii follow. We shall wait for
the report of the board of inquiry and then
nothing can hold back Congress- That Is
my opinion. and think you will find it the