The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-04-15

to that end to terminate the conditions
that deprive them Of legal protection.
Thicd-The right to Intervene may be
| Justified by the very serious injury to the
! commerce, trade and business of our
people and by the Wanton destruction of
| property and devastation of the island
FOurth-And which is of the utmost i'm
| portance. The present condition of affairs
| in Cuba is a constant menace to our peace
| and entails upon this government an
| enormous expense. With such q conflict
waged for years in an island 50 near US
| and with which our people have such trade
and business relationS-when the lives and
| liberty of our citizens are in constant dan
| ger and their property destroyed and them
| selves ruined-where our trading vessels
are liable to seizure and are seized at our
very door, by WarshipS of a foreign ma
| ton. the expeditions of flibustering that
we are powerleSs to prevent altogether, and
| the irritating questions and entanglememtS
| need not mention, with the resulting
strained relations, are a constant menace
to our peace and compel us to keep on a
semi-war footing with q nation with which
we are at peace.
Destruction OF the Maine.
! These elements of danger and disorder
already pointed out have been strikingly
illustrate by tragic event which has
pie. I have already transmitted to con-
gress the report of the naval court of in
quiry on the destruction of the battleship
Maine in the harbor of Havana during the
night Of the 18th of February. The de-
struction of that noble vessel has filled
the national heart with ineXpreSSlOle nor
rOr Two hundred and flfty-e1Sht brave
sailors and marines and two officers of our
navy, reposing in the fancied security or a
friendly haTbOr, have been hurled TO death
grief and want brought to their homes
and sorrow 10 the nation.
The naval court of inquiry, which, 1t is
needless to say, commands the unqualihed
confidence of the government, was unan-
imOus in its conclusion that the deStruc-
tion of the Maine was caused by an eN-
terror explosion, that of a submarine mine.
II did not assume to place the RESPONSE
bilitv. That remains to be fixed.
Proof of SPain's Weakness.
Tn any event the destruction of the Maine.
bv whatever exterior cause, is patent ana
impressive proof of state OF THINGS ;s,d IN
is thus shown to be such that the Span
ish government cannot assure saIety ana
security to a vessel of the American navy
in the harbor of Havana on a mission OF
neace ard rightfully there.
Further referring in this connecton TO
recent diplomatic correspondence US US
5efh ait contained the statement tnat
the Spanish minister for Foreign aIalTs
assured him positively that SPAN VIII 90
ali that the highest honor ard JUSTICE re-
0uira in the ma tier of the Maine. Inc re-
Div above referred to of the 3lst UT also
contained an expression or the re3uineSS
of SDain to submit to an arbitration all the
differences which can arise i'm this matter
which is subsequently explained by the
note Of the Spanish minister at. WaShlnS-
ton of the 10th inst, as follows:
A Note from Spain.
GAS to the question of fact which springs
from the diversity Of views between the
renort of the American and Spanish
boards. Spain proposes that the fact be
ascertained by am impartial investigation
by experts which decision Spain accepts
in advance.
To this have made no repl-.
Grant Is quoted.
President Grant in 1875. after discussing
the phases Of tie contest as 1t then GD-