The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-02-03
AS VIEWED BY EDITORS.
Opinion of Leading Metropolitan Pa
pers Upon the Maine Disaster.

Opinion of Leading Metropolitan Pa
pers Upon the Maine Disaster.
Either great crime has been commit
ted or there has been an amazing piece
of laundering carelessness-Chicago Rec
ord.
If the Maine and $50 of her men have
been lost through Spanish treachery let
Spain take the consequences.-Cinci
Enquirer.
Maine disaster with the present informa-
ton would be the height of folly.-De-
troit News.
The first duty of the country with re-
gard to the terrible tragedy is to keep
cool. that we may learn the facts.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
There is nothing in the reports to Offset
the fearful suspicion that the Maine was
deliberately destroyed by Spanish tor
redo.-Cincinnat Times-Star.
No possible explanation can stife the
voice of the people calling for intervention
in the interest of Cuba by our Govern
ment.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The American people should decide
whether playing at war is not too e1pen-
siye an amusement when it entails such
a terrible cost.-Chicago Chronicle.
The people believe the burden of proof
rests upon Spain to demonstrate beyond
cayil that the blowing up of the Maine
WAS an accident.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Many modern battle ships have been
wrecked in similar way and just as sud
denly without any reasonable ground for
suspicion of an attempt at wholesale muir
der.-Chicago Stats Zeitung.
All this occurred in the harbOr of q
friendly nation" Now let the Spaniards
prove their friendship by absoiving them
selves from all responsibility for the ca
tastrophe.-St. Louis Republic.
There are scores of possible explana-
tions, each of which would seem more rea-
sonable than the base insinuations against
the nation whose hospitality our repre-
sentatives were enjoying.-Philadelph
Record.
The disaster to one of the finest ships
of our navy and the sacrifice of so many
brave lives, not to the formal defense OF
the country, but TO strange and horri-
BILE fate, casts gloom over the whole ma
tion.-St Paul Globe.
The American people are not so callous-
ed by prejudice as to close their eyes and
ears to the probability that the explosion
was due to causes with which the Span
ish Government could have no remote con-
nection.-Detroit journal.
Sober second thought will carry convic-
tion to all fair and open minded men that
il is better to await the results of an in
yestigation before jumping to the conciu-
sion that Spanish malice is at the bottom
of it.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
1t is not surprising that there should be
many wild rumors a1oat, for in the pres
ont strained relations between this coun-
trv and Spain there will be a natural ten
dency to attribute the explosion to the
Spaniards-if not to the agents of
the Spanish Observation-Disclosures
News.
As disastrous things as an annihilating
EXPLOSION have happened to American bat
tie ships through accident or misinanage-
ment. and the terrible incident in the
Havana harbor may be but another Of the
long series of misfortunes that have be-
fallen our navy in the last few years.
Detroit Free Press.
The very fact that such an accident. if
accident it was, could happen to an Amer
lean man-of-war, and that it should shat
ter the peace of mind of the public and
do infinite damage to every commercial
enterprise from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, is in itself sufficient warrant for in
ervention.-Chicago Journal.