The San Francisco call., 1898-04-16

to the bondholders. Our action Tn tnls great crisis is predicated upon the ue- mand of the syndicate that contr9d,S 2,5 eneng hrg avenue of trade and commerce. The poho Of the corporation is stronger than the man-the sinister effect of the dollar IS paramount in this Capitol.
 He inquired if the hypnotic influences abroad in the land would obtain and IT, under the narcotic sleep, Cuba would De ing we propose to take. possession or Cuba as the policeman of the Western Continent" was one of his most declarit- tive utterances. Then, with Infection rls- ing at the termination of each word, ne
 Bonds. Bonds! Bonds! Nothing but bonds throughout the message. tie sald that whatever resolution was passed, war was inevitable. My people do not want war God knows they would rather have peace. They have seen the horrors or war Their fairest flowers were given Tor burial purposes Our one jewe- was sent back to us for interment. We have had our fill of blood-letting; bat the great fellow feeling of sympathy has gone out to the men of the Maine, and the lighted fuse which caused the explosion of the bomb under the Maine has relighted, and the blood of our revolutionary sires, cry ing through the men of South Carolina, demands Justice for the assassins who sent our brave sailors to an untimely death
 In marked contrast to the speech Of l Tillman was the address of Wolcott or i Colorado, who followed. In opening Vol | colt said that it had not been his inten- i tion to participate in the debate on the l resolutions under discussion till yeSter 1 day. when reflections upon the person of | the chief executive brought him to a l realizing sense that justice ought to be done the honored President in his hour | of great trial Prefacing his discussion 1 of the question at issue, he stated that ! he would vote for the committee resolu- l tion. He then characterized as almost criminal the aspersions made by Sena- | tors on the floor against the chief ex- 1 ecutive.
 1 Extreme, has been unreasonable, and the l condition of affairs as we find 1t today he said, lis largely due to degraded l Journalism, induloed in among those in l high station, a Journalism which sought 1 to plunge the country into war in order l to sell a few more copies of the newspa-- | per Our beloved President respected smelled the smoke of battle, but in all he has shown Christian forbearance, the same which he has reflected in the
 He regretted he said. that diplomacy eSisting. eiSn we know not the finesse of hearts in the open. and it is through us that the President in his trying position He spoke of the two phases of the situ- alton, the condition in Cuba and the de- ! strl1ction of the Maine. If the two sub- jects had been separate, he continued, the i necessity of war might have been avoid | ed If the awful barbarities in Cuba which had aroused the pity of all man. | kind. had stood alone, there might have been solution of the problem.
 For himself. he would have cared little what burden it entailed He would have been willing to mortgage every citizen if only peace could be preserved. But Spain refused to yield. And then. when l added to that, came the awful explosion in Havana harbor, the die was cast. Af- ter that what could be said? If even l that catastrophe had stood alone, possi- bly, war might have been averted. But not by any methods Spain has thus far l clear as bell. From the day of the explosion to this, Spain has done noth- ing except to make the most perfunctory expressions of regret. She has made nc dress the wrong. If Spain freed Cuba 1 to-day. we would have offered up 26t American sailors on the altar of her freedom. War must come or Cuba must be free No other answer will be ac- cepted by our people. The honor of 8 nation must be inviolable. Defended
 The loss of it. the trading of it, the aban
 donment of it, makes a nation die ant perish from the earth. This is why, 1T this hour good men, loving peace, see nc way under heaven how war can be avoid ed It is fitting that we pledge ourselve. in advance before the nations of the
 world that our hands are clean and oul cause just; that the war is war in ths interest of humanity, war for the suffer
 ing and oppressed.
 SPersonaily regret that there canno
 be found in Cuba a government we car
 recognize wish we could. For ther,
 Is undeniable danger in these days ot
 syndicates and commercialism that mcr
 who play upon human life as they do O,
 loans and chattels for the advancement
 of selfish interests will seek to glut the.l
 greed here.
 ''In the eyes of every man in Europt we must be free from uterior motives.
 he went on, If we are to preserve thei]
 respect and our own. There is nothinf
 nobler at the end of the nineteenth cen
 tury than a nation erect and defian
 standing for human liberty. No concer
 of Europe can choke our utterance ol