Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1898-03-24
CUBA AND WAR
Discussed by C. S. DarroW
Of Chicago Before a
Political Club.
Incidentally Speaks Of War
on Corruption and Boodlers
Generally.
His Idea of Who Makes the
LaWs-The Workings of
the Courts.

MINNEAPOLIS, M1SN, March l7:-C. s.
Darrow, the eloquent lawyer OF Chicago,
delivered an address last night before
the central democratic club. His remarks
were retreshingiy frank and waraly
applauded throughout. He took as his
subject Cuba and the war with Spain,
saying in parts
ut has given me feeling of sadness
to see how ready Our people are to talk
about war. I really believe President
McKinley's course on the question is
about the only good thing he ever did.
/ do not suppose he and his frieod, Mr..
Hanna, have done this from the best OF
motives. Bat even the devil will do
good sometimes, and it they are con-
trolled by stock jobbers the end they
attain is good.
IL refuse to discuss this question
from r political standpoist. A war
with Spain would not be holiday
picnic
81 sympathize with Cuba as I do with
rebels everywhere. But believe in a
people mindlng her own affairs. L
don't believe there is any 'Eaore injustice
in the treatment Of Cuba by Spain than
in that of Ireland by England. Poland
by Russia, or Armenia by Turkey. To;
say that we must go forth and regulate.
every other nation is 6 doctrine that:
would leave VI g natlonCi existence but!
few years.
"And I would not be in favor Of.
marching on Cuba SO long as there were.
Doodle aldermen, Doodle Legislators.
trusts and pools to put down. SO long
as there was one starving baby in our
cities, while t-amps are increasing and
conditions OF iife are becoming constagt-
" harder While this exists We have no
right to 60 out INTO the sea to find some
one to pick quarrel with.
WAR AND ITs RESULTS.
"And for the laboring men-there
could be no greater crime toward them
than to 60 to war. 1t every newspaper
editor and every politician who is shout
lux lOE wal "ouAN 'So w oAO AAouV ~AAN
fight, then 1 would say: Let us have war
and the more slauR hter the better. The
poor man wiN furnish all the blood. with
the exception Of sfew who want to he
heroes. lt's lots easier to be hero in
war than 10 peace. There are q thousand
men who will stand up to be shot at, to
,one who will spesk out bis honest con-
victions and let the newspapers critioise
them
III We have war We will 60 60 out
and draft the men. We did not draft
the money We should have. There wss
no Justice in It, We made the men go
out and be shot at, We e.took the banke1e'
money and paid him interest. Then we
took the men Who had been shot ct and
hadn't been but and SGT them to work to-
pay it back, and the mere they pay the
more there ls-but that's another story.
We would borrow the money Of the
Rothchilds. and in twenty years they
would change the standard to diamonds,
and make Us pay 20 to ].
WAR would put back the solution OF
economic questions fifty years. All such
discussion would be lost sight OF. and
whatever hope We have Tor the future
would be wiped out. A great portion of
the power OF the money kings today 10
due to one tour.yeers war. It's not the
bonds that we're issued, tie lives that
were lost, the passions that we're raised,
that marks the cost OF that war. When
that war broke out there were no rich
and no poor. When it closed those great
corporations had been growing and gain.
ing strength.
1--WE won't have . war. but this MIS-
ersble rubbish Of war talk hes already
cost more than We think. Congress has
passed prize package appropriation OF
&50,OOOOOO to buy boats and guus with.
But the dangerous part OF it to the well
fare of the poor is that it means lpcreas-
ing our army and our navy, and more
guns and powder and soldiers, and there
never wac time when guns and powder
end soldiers we're not q menace to human
liberty.
ARMIES A MENACE TO LIBERTY.
"Fither am crazy, or the American
people are insane on this subject. We
seem to have forgotten that great
army is menace to human liberty.
Bnt we'll learn it. The trainers of our
constitution meant only to provide for q
militia, not q strong standing army.
And yet on these occasions, when people
have become orszed by their own talk.
they begin to buy every old ship that
the junk dealers have to sell-trying to
get rid OF our S5O,OOO,OOO. And when
We get our army and navy We will have
what Germany and France Lave-a
great army which 10 not 90 much .
menace to foreign powers % to liberty