Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-24
AS VIEWED BY EDITORS.
Opinion of Leading Metropolitan Pa
pers Upon the Maine Disaster.

Opinion of Leading Metropolitan Pa
pers Upon the Maine Disaster.
II seems sufficiently clear that our navy
is lacking in discipline. Cincinnati Volks-
blatt.
Either great crime has been commit
ted or there has been an amazing piece
of blundering carelessness.-Chicago Rec
ord.
liz the Maine and $50 of her men have
been lost through Spanish treachery let
Spain take the consequences.-Cinci
Enquirer.
To attempt to pass judgment on the
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 in nothing in the reports to Offset
the fearful suspicion that the Maine was
deliberately destroyed by Spanish tor
Cincinnati Timcs-Star.
No possible explanation can stife the
voice of the people calling for Intervention
i'm the interest of Cuba by our Govern
ment.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The American people should decide
whether playing ut war is not too expen-
sive an amusement when it entails such
a terrible cost.-Chicago Chronicle.
The people believe the burden of proof
rests upon Spain to demonstrate beyond
cavil that the blowing mp 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 a
friendly nation" Now let the Spaniards
prove their friendship by absolving 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 g.-Philadelphia
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 a 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-
ton to all fair and open minded men that
II is better to await the results Of an in
vestigation before jumping to the conclu-
sion that Spanish malice is at the bottom
Of it.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
,das treachery been added to duplicity !?
~ill be the almost universal inquiry, to
which a reply will be awaited with the
deepest interest throughout the nation. If
such were the case it would take rank as
the crime of the century.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The suspicion Of Spanish treachery ex-
hibited by n section of American opinion
looks i'll beside the accounts of the splen-
did gallantry Of the suspects in saving
drowning Americans, and it indicates an
ugly temper toward Spain.-London Daily
Mail.
IL is impossible to refrain from the sus-
picion that the explosion may have been
caused by foul means. That this terrible
event should have occurred in the harbor
of Havana renders n solution of the mys-
terry of international Importance
Globe.
IL Hidalgo hatred of Americans blew
up the Maine then the price of every life
must be paid for in Spanish gold. The
amount of such damages might reach $2O,-
100000, but il would have to be forth
coming or the bill paid in blood.-Cin-
cinnati Evening Post.
1t is not surprising that there should be
many wild rumors afioat, for in the pres
ent strained relations between this coun-
try and Spain there will be natural ten
dency to attribute the explosion to the
Spaniards--if not to the agents Of
the Spanish Government.-Indianapolis
News.
As disastrous things as an annihilating
explosion have happened to American bat
tie ships through accident or mismanage-
ment, and the terrible incident in the
Havana harbor may be but another of the
yox~ scriea of misfortu nos fhaf have bc-