The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-09
LIT Wan CONE


LET wAR COME
TIE issues are made up; each OF the
tvo nations has assumed an attitude
from which Il cannot recede. and II Is
enIy = question OF hours when . spark
may nght the magazine. The United
states has decided that the absolute In
aspsndenos Of Cuba must be conceded;
Spain has decided that It win not re-
llnquish nominal sovereignty.
Each government has been positive In
80 own mind ~ 70 this stand for some
time. but each has hoped that the other
Weuld Yield. or that . disinclInation on
ths part Of the other to 60 to war would
suggest some device by which each
should seem TO be satisfied without the
ethar really yielding on the vital ques-
ton.
~ ons pretext after another has been
rejected the ultimate purpose OF each
1as been stripped from its yelling OF
alpacmacy and now stands bold and un-
covered before the world A conflict is
Inevitable. Nothing short of war will
Determine which Is to yield. II is Sc
Eious responsibility to undertake; 1t will
b costly In it, prosecution; It will bring
IT. sorrows and bercavemerts; It viii be
accompanied until the last shot Is fired
with anxieties and cares. but all these
must be risked II We are TO be ranked
ar.song the honered Of nations. and the
consequences submitted to, II before en-
tesing uron II we can justify our actions
u ourselves
This we can do: this Is what President
Mckinley told the representatives of the
powers Of Europe. Using diplomatic
phrAseology. President Mckinley ex-
pressed the confidence of the American
people that the powers OF Europe would
by IN earnest and unseifish endeavor to
ftIifill Its duty to humanity by ending
situation the indefinite psolougation of
which has become insufferahie.
In such serious matter as that which
prompts . nation 10 so to war. the lar
guage OF justification becomes exceed
ingiy important. The condition is de-
scribed AZ ..insufferable." This nation
II not se helpless that II needs bear any
evil which has become insufferable. The
same nicely of language IL observed I'm
the declaration OF independence, when.
ID explanation Of the act which was
about to be undertaken. the world was
Informed that II had become necessary
to bring about dissolution Of political
banda The American people then made
themselves the judges Of what consti-
tuted the necessity: now. they determine
for themselves q, what point the evil os
which they complain has become insult
ferabie--no longer 10 be borne.
II II now getting towards sixteen
months since President Cleveland de.
clared that unless peace and order could
be re-es,ahiished In Cuba. Intervention
by the United States was only a cues
ton nj time. A year later President
Mckinley repeated that warning, using
language so decided that II was resented
by Spain as n threat. II was an expos
taiation. not a threat: bar Il conveyed
. warning. Spain eannst claim tha.
u dla no, have ample notification &C the
intention of the United States 10 take
some action II it's requests were no.
complied with In reasonable time.
Spain has tried both by eonaaes, ana
coneiliasion TO pacifieate Cuba. Farce
has been met with no less determined
resistance and consultation has hcen a.
Intellectual. because the rass pa,icy al
Spain has been one ef perHfy and
tr~aehery. The cuaans rraferreS. the
sword - the yoke They have aeaexs
Spain 10 gain one iaeA either hy fhs
bloody course 81 weyier. by the relens.
less policy Of starvation adopted b.
Rlsneo or hy the pvesense az liberty
hose measure was 20 ~ determines:
from time 10 time by saaia's erportun,.
ties and Interests.
Soshing that the United States de.
nans~~s - s~@svs has been aene exeees