The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-14


phere: . victory for freedom and liher.y
and independence: victory worthy OF the
descendants of the heroism which achieved
Cur own Independence and worthy the iti-
lowers Of those heroic men who preserved
and perpesuated our priceless heritage"
Applause In the galleriea)
Hale offered q substitute for the pend
Ing resolution. authorizing the president
to intervene at once and to use the army
and navy to this end. The substitute
carried no recognition of independence.
The Hale substitute also went over. II
ID In accordance with the presidents mes
sage
Lodge Supports the Resolution.
Lodge followed with q speech In support
OF the committee resolution. He declared
that when we were face 10 face with
foreign power 1t was the overriding duty
OF congress and the people and the prest-
dent to stand absolutely together.
When the president comes TO congress
and invokes our aid In a controversy with
foreign country and asks us 10 give him
power to Intervene, l DESIRE he said,
that that great power OF war should be
given to him in that way. / am against
declaration of war but I prefer giving
the president the power to intervene.
am against recogu- zing the government
or the insurgent republic, because the
president Of the United States in hts high
responsibility has advised Congress strong
~ agalns, IL. The president has nothing to
do bu, TO ask Mr.. Palma 10 the White
House and the Cuban republic stands up
erect and recognized. We may safely en-
nvA-cr To no au{A
We authorize the president to intervene
and use the army and navy OF the United
states We create state Of war. Let us
not deceive ourselves at this solemn hour.
Forms OF words are OF but little moment
In crisis like this. The great central
factor concerns re people today. The
president has asked us 10 authorize him
TO set up government there which shalt
be stable government and government
capable OF observing international obliga-
tons.
What kind of government can alone
be an international government? Only an
Independent government. II We intervene,
We do not go there TO take Gomez by the
throat and make him stop fighting. We
go there TO put Spain out Of that island,
Tor In no other way can We create a gov
eminent capable of observing its in,erna-
tional obiga. lions.
No one can be more averse than /, no
one can deprecate more than l any act
which plunges the country into war II
one year ago last January we had recog-
nized this independence, they would have
established their independence themselves
Both those propositions passed by the SEN
ate were smothered elsewhere, wisdom
which I shall; question. have also FOR
many years advocated a powerful navy
and strong coast defenses. ! have adyo-
Gated them because believed that In them
was the guarantee OF peace. II we had
today. az We ought 10 have. twenty bat
tleships and hundred torpedo boats.
there never would have been a Cuban oues-
ton. We are not In this crisis By an ac-
cident We have not BEEN brought here
By chance and by eiamorous politicians or
by yellow journals We are face 10 face
with Spain today In the fulnllmens Of
great movement which has run through
the centuries. Out OF the war which Spatn
wages and the manner in which she wages
u have come starvation and the destruc-
ton Of the Maine
DYING spain Robbed by Spanish,
Spain Il on her deathhed, buried In
debt. bleeding at every vein from the rev.
oliticrs in her colonies. and her officers
ard officials rob her dying az che IL in
yesterday. when he was before us N the
&nA. On SAID to have been appropriated nv
Spain for tire relief OF the reconcentr,dos
would reach them. or would he speDf on
the Spanish soldiers. for they are starving
TOO. and his reply was.
1T will never reach either of them
The officials Will take II ali on the wav.'
That rs what II going on In Spain. sust
al II wac when Gil Bias mad his adventures
That In WHY Cuba has rebeiled
The sentiment Of she American reopre
In my Judgment. is for peace. We are es-
sertiaily peace-loving peare-char,s,,iuc
peopie but there IL a sen.smen. In .he
American people that is above and beyord
their love OF peace. I mean among the
great mass OF our people WHOSE eyes ara
not blinded rs the glitter of too much
wealth. Among those people there 10 a
strong sentiment for peace always. but 4.
can only be peace with honor They cher
ish very deeply the pride in being Amer
leans and they do not want 10 see that
name furnished or brought 10 ignon,iny or
dsshonor.
III war must bel hope and I pray thar
Il NAV be avoztesf-gso nation eyer wsr, ~
war on higher grounds or from nobler or
from c'ore dss,nseve~sed motives War il
here: II II here by The acts Of Spain.
What Of the Naine.
And now fn conclusion what Of The
Maine ! arr 10 merely human TIA, that
shin is nearer my heart than anything ss,e
suppose sse had gone down 20 her death tn
an English sarbor. blown I'D. az she was.
carrying her men usfa her. What 10 you
Think would have heen the voice OF Eng
isna-shaz Lard of Ne1sou- I believe n IL
rad had happened in an English rsort Eng
land would have said We regard this
with horror. We believe thai II must have
been an accident but Ii hamper ned In ouy
Sarsssr. under ctr flag II you think 9TH
erwixe. name the reparafica that you
want.
Such believe would have been the re-
ply % England Bach. I heafeve. would
have bean our res,y or that Of any OF the
great r0Ger1