The times., 1898-03-11
EUROPE WILL NOT INTERFERE.
Senator'S Do Not Look for Objection


to Il Vigorous American Policy.
The published reports that this Govern
ment had sounded the various govern
ments OF Europe and found that the
United States would not be interfered
with in the event the Administration de-
cided to drive Spain out of Cuba attract
ed a great deal of attention at the Cap
itoI yesterday.
II have never believed. said Senator
Mason that any European power would
interfere if the United States undertook
to settle this question and stop the in
human barbarities of the war now in
progress in the island of Cuba by driving
out the detestable Spaniard who has
been the cause of all the ills of which
that beautiful island has been subject.
There are several very good reasons why
no European government would inter-
fere. In the first place when Gen Grant
in ths previous war sounded the Euro
pean governments on the subject of d
similar Intervention, the conditions were
quite different in Europe France then
had many strong friends and allies and
the chances were all in favor of her Civ
ing valuable aid and assistance TO Spain
in the event that we interfered. Again in
our own country the conditions were al
together dissimiliar from what they are
today. Our civil war had Just ended and
We were only emerging from the shadow
of our own slave pens In many Southern
States the Union troops were stationed
to carry out the policy that prevailed in
those reconstruction days. All this is
different now. We have united country
and from every section comes the de-
mand that our Government intervene to
stop the war. Europe is torn with pO-
Htical dissensions and there is not a ma
ton that today could afford to take sides
with Spain and antagonize the United
States. For that reason | am convinced
that the news is accurate and that it
correctly sizes up the situation"
Senator Cockrell of Missouri said: ''I
have never thought that the European
nations would pursue any other policy
than that of keeping hands off European
nations have enough to do nowadays to
attend to their own affairs, and the
statesmen and diplomats of those ma
tions realize that this is matter in
which Spain and the United States alone
are interested and that the United States
viii deal with it after its own fashion and
totally regardless of the views and opin-
ions of Europe.
80 far as the report of the Court of
Inquiry is concerned, if the report of
that court should verify the publications
recently appearing iii the press it viii
be difficult to restrain an outburSt on the
part of the American people, who up TO
this time have impatiently held them
selves in check awaiting positive informa-
tion as to the cause of the destruction of
the battleship War is an ugly thing, but
| am for war if that is necessary to main
tain the honor of the country and to en-
force our own rights 1t is the bounden
duty of the United States to free Cuba
and stop the inhuman contest now going
on there, and il looks very much as if we
would have to whip Spain in doing il. In
that event / am confident no European
nation will be so foolish to attempt to in
terfere"
Said Senator Spooner of Wisconsin: 'T
have always been averse to discussing
matters of such grave Importance in the
public press. believing as | do that little
good can come from such discussion.
/ However, | have never believed that any
European power would enter a protest
against such action as the United States
might deem proper to be taken in connec-
| tiOn with this matter, which more vftally
| concerns the United States than any 9th
I er country on the earth. The political
I conditions are such that il would prob
ably be unwise for any nation to inter-
fere, and if it be true that the United
/ States has received the assurance that
| Europe will simply play the part of an
| interested spectator it is subject for
our own congratulation."
Senator Tillman Of South Carolina said:
| ''The publication that the European DOW
, ers-with the exception of Germany and
| Austria-have notified the United States
| that they Will not participate or interfere
| in any way in the matter of the settle
| ment of the war in Cuba is an exhibition
| of the sound Judgment and good sense
| of the men at the head of affairs in those
! nations. 1t matters little what Austria
may do. for that government is impotent
| to do the United States any harm The
| erratic conduct of the German emperor
| might lead him 10 do something which
| would get him and his nation into serious
/ trouble, for it will be but a matter of
/ time before that ambitious young man
/ does run up against something that will
! hurt him. II Germany were to attempt
| to oppose the United States in this mat
/ ter the moment she would send her ships
| abroad she would open on her frontiers
| the gateway through which France long
waiting impatiently for the opportunity.
| would rush in to seize and carry back
/ Alsace and Lorraine, the two provinces
! which the present emperOr's grandfather
| wrested from France almost thirty years
/ ago as one of the prizes of war. The
/ German emperor, reckless though he is
/ would not be so foolhardy as 10 under
4 take this sort of a job. But the United
! States will meet him if he does undertake
/ II, or for that matter the combined pow
I ers of Europe. if such a thing were in
the realm of possibility. and despite such
! opposition will free Cuba and clear the
/ political atmosphere of this contention
| We need, however, have no fear of any
| such alliance with Spain against the
| United States. Spain alone is the single
power that dares to pick quarrel with
n tod
so tied up with entangling alliances that
| it cannot come across the Atlantic to
! attack this Government. Spain must
| fight her battle alone, and when hOstili-
! ties commence, as l have believed for
three months they will commence, we can
| give the world an exhibition of how the
| United States will chastise those who
have offended ne auJ y-iolo f,5 Ill -