The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-30


No message had been sent by our exec
utiVe inconsistent with the national
honor of Spain. Our only Offense was
TO restore peace, alike honorable to all.
Our treasury had been opened to feed
our people. Definite plans were not
even suggested by the president, fear
ing to injure our relations with Spain.
Spain could not conquer her own in
surgents. Had we been grasping ma
ton we could az any time within two
years have made aggressive and forci-
bic annexation, taking advantage of
the crimes Of Spain and the misfortune
of Cuba.
HAD THEY BEEN SENATORS.
The night came on. dark, gloomy
night, natural and proper time for
Spanish bravery. Our men were asleep
in d, friendly harbor. They were never
challenged to display their courage.
They were not whipped in honorable
battle. but choled, burned, strangled
ard drowned without chance TO die
fighting for life, without a moment to
say prayer. In the twinkling of an
eye they stood in the presence of their
Maker. Suppose 80 of them had been
United States senators. Suppose the
balance had been members of congress,
or made up of judges and leading pro-
fessional and business men, would 40
days have elapsed before war began?
Or suppose each senator had son or
father there. DO we tell our chill
dren the truth when we say that the
life of every American citizen is of
equal value before the law? They were
not senatOrs-they were sailors. Their
widows and orphans cry aloud to US;
the silent appeal of 26S seamen comes
TO US again and again, saying: We are
flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone,
and blood of your blood. We lived and
died fer the flag that shields you
What is to be our answer? Shall we
answer with money? Mr.. President
speak only for myself. and 1 am for
war! applause in the galleries.
CALL THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT
NAMES.
But gentlemen may say: Don't say
you are for War-say that you are for
armed intervention, which means war
believe in calling things by their right
meme. If we believe that numbering
eur men. sinking our ship and lowering
our flag is not cause for war. say so,
and refer it, as they did the Virginius
affair. and allow our brothers to be
sold like stock for gold. If it is cause
Tor war, let us assume the response
bility put upon US by the constitution
and say so, not only to Spain, but to
the whole world. Let us not say one
thing and mean another. For Gods
sake, let us not SpanishiZe our di-
plcmacies, but rather speak the truth
and prove ourselves true disciples of
James G. Blaine.
CONGRESS ALONE.
1--WE can hide no longer under the
executive wing. He can neither declare
war nor refuse it Congress alone can
declare war. I. for one, am ready to
vote now. You may continue TO cry
peace, peace! But there can be no
peace while Europeans butcher their
slaves on the same continent where our
flag floats. But there are those who
say the court does not fix the response
bility. 1t was not necessary. The peace
at any price men cannot escape so. The
law fixes responsibility. We We're in
Spanish waters, and over Spanish soil.
The harbor is owned and controlled by
Spain. The explosives in that harbor
We're owned and controlled by Spain.
If it was a torpedo, it was a Spanish
torpedo; If it was a mine, it was a
Spanish mine; no explosives have been
OF sale in Havana for over a year to
private citizens. If it was gun cotton.
it was Spanish gun cotton, and if it
was dynamite it was Spanish dyna-
mite. The power to explode it was
controlled by Spain. A government
acts only through its agents and Of
ncers as much as they controlled the
discharge of their cannon. 1t was
owned, located and exploded by Spain,
end Spain must answer.
NEVER, NEVER.
q shall oppose any plan to assist
Spain to place any kind of autonomy on
Cuba. Spain cannot be trusted TO keep
her promises, and we cannot undertake
TO compel her Aside from that poor
Cuba has paid larger price for lib
eTty than we did. and she must be free.
l shall oppose any plan that looks to
forcing Cuba in the future to pay Spain
for her liberty. Her land is full of
graves. and her future generations
must not be mortgaged.
1T is claimed by some that Cuba
ought to be willing to pay SPANS war
debt, Cuba to pay for the powder and
lead that killed her people? TO pay for
the torches that burned her home? To
pay the back wages of the Spanish sol
diers who ravished their wives and
daughters? Never. BY any vote of
mi.e.
LET Us AWAKE.
''Some tell US we must wait for Span
ish elections. If her elections are as
rotten as her diplomacy, we cannot
wait. It is claimed that if we will wait
until the Spanish elections, Sagasta
will give all concessions. Are we to be |
fooled twice by the same trick2 Is De
LONE so soon forgotten Some tell us
we are not prepared. When shall We
be better prepared? Will il be when /
the waters and rests complacently on |
her base of supplies within i've or six |
hours distance of our fieet2 We know (
now officially what we have believed for /
40 days. Shall we wait until she can Z
destroy more of our ships. and men? /
God forbid that such a crime should /
be charged TO US. Let US awake, Shake |
off the Chinese narcotic that locks US /
in drowsy Incidence, murmuring peace I
at any price
As OUR FOREFATHERS DID.
Awake as our forefathers did at Con
cord and Bunker Hill; awake TO glor-
ious war against nation that burns
homes and murders women and chill
dren; awake 10 glorious war that seeks
no gain for US in treasure or territory,
but var TO drive the oppressor from
the continent; to set the Cuban flag in
the sky forever; and a war that will
help us for generations to come and
give notice that the honor of our flag
and the lives Of our citizens must be
respected among the nations of the
world" applause in the gallery.)
STORM OF APPLAUSE.
Mr.. Mason read his speech from man
uscript, but il was delivered with all
the vigor and fire Of which he is cap
able.
The intensity of the feeling of those
in the galleries was evidenced by the
storm Of appliance which was ELECTED
b. his declaration that he was for war
Vice President Hobart had real diff
Guilty in suppressing the demonstration.
THESE, TOO, FOR WAR.
Informal Conference of Populists and