The San Francisco call., 1898-04-15

 blocking the harbOr of Havana with the | shattered hull of the Maine. The flashing | sword of the United States must be drawn | for Cuban independence, and 1t should be | wielded by an arm stronger than ever. 1 Once uplifted, it should never be lowered | until Spain was driven from the western | hemisphere. He read several telegrams | from prominent citizens of Washington | to show the drift of the sentiment in that l State. One from the Governor declared | that intervention without recognition of | independence would be utterly unsatis- | factory. Another from the colonel of the | First Regiment of the Uniformed Rank | Knights of Pythias, which had rendered l to the President it's services in case of | war, directed him to withdraw the offer l as 1t had been made under the impression l that they would be called upon to fight Spaniards, not Cubans.
 When the venerable Senator from Mas 1 sachusetts, Hoar, arose to follow Turner, there was a visible stir in the audience: The Senator from Massachusetts said that he wanted to make a few observa- tiOns quietly, calmly and in the manner of Q court dealing with the great prob- lems of public welfare and public honor. He thought it was not the time for i'm passioned rhetoric, loud Reclamation, the clapping of hands and the stamping of feet but rather it was the position of ab- solute deiberation that should command such a scene and such an occasion. He then argued that the report of cruelty and oppression in the island of Cuba un- doubtedly warranted some measures which would bring peace, but he doubted the wisdom of rushing headlong into war until every other diplomatic effort had been made to bring about an honorable cessation of hostiIities.
 Then, with voice trembling with emo- tion, his head slowly shaking as the words came forth, he told how captain of a company of infantry organized in the same town in which he was born went forth in the morning of the revolu- tion to hold the bridge at Concord, and said that he was in the same position as that captain was. Realizing the tre mendous responsibilities of his high office, he thought that whatever was done. should be done with an eye single to the situation. Then. with hand raised and amidst profound stiffness in the Senate chamber he made this significant remark: If this country is to do a great act of international justice, let us do 1t calmly and deliberately"
 Senator Hoar argued that the attacks upon the President were Ill advised and most i'll timed; that instead of condemna ton of the policy of the executive, the country and Congress should commend the President in his efforts making for peace. so long as peace could be had with honor Then, after presenting tribute to the President, the Senator said that the men who suffered by modern wars were not the men who provoked them, and that the men who reaped the benefits from wars were few officers and the stock jobbers. He said that war meant the addition of untold millions to the pub lie debt of the country the pning up of pensions mountain high and would bring woe and desolation to thousands of homes
 T like and thank the President of the United States for his sublime self-re- strant in this emergency and for holding back so far as he could the step toward war Hoar said that the name of Me- kiinley would be linked with other ,ac-- characterized the American people in other momentous hours. Have we for gotten said he. that the same kind of oobJurgation and contumely was hurled at in HrrhaY ha I,a1l England?"
 T am old enough" said Hoar, ''to re- member some of these tempests of popu- lar excitement in Congress and out of it. | Some of the Senators here remember the cry of On to Richmond On to Rich mond!' and the charges of impotence and | cowardice which were neaped on Abra- | ham Lincoln. Some of us on this side of the chamber wish that we might for
 He then rapidly reviewed a great many international cases, with quotations from national law, to show that the present government or Cuba would be inimical to | the best interests of the United States l and would not have the support of civil | ized nations.
 ITO recognize the insurgents said Hoar, would be to ignore our whole bis- tory, and we cannot recognize that inde- | pendence without flying in the face of the | whole history or the world. We need the sympathy of the civilized world in the | struggle which seems so near to us. and | we can only keep it by recognizing the law of nations:
 school of lawyers who believed that if tbe | United States took Spain by the neck and | heels and threw her out of the island of | Cuba it would make the United States | responsible for any bonds which Spain | might have agreed to pay from revenues derived from the island
 Hoar said the Cuban insurgents had a great title to the sympathies of this coun- try. They were struggling for freedom. they were brave and resolute. The as | piration of Gomez seemed to be toward | the establishment of a black republic in the West Indies And" said Hoar. "T honor and bless him TOT that aspiration.
 The insurgents, however, he did not think were without fault. Long before Spain had put into effeo. the reconcentrado or der they had applied the torch and other wise destroyed everything that stood in their way. from crops to towns. Hoar said, however, that the fact that both