The age-herald., 1898-04-08
NOT QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE IN CUBA United States Has Higher and HObleF
 Cause FOR LOWERING STAINS FLAG For Thirty Years the Insurgents Have
 Been Struggling. HER TREASURY DRAINED FOR SPAIN TYanicaI Rule of Cuba Has Been Without Parallel in the History of Civilized
 Nations for Cruelty and
 Oppression.
TER TREASURY DRAINED FOR SPAIN
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.
 BY JAY F. DURHAM.

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 Washington. April 7.-While large per- centage of the population of Cuba may be colored people, or so-called half-breeds, the controversy between Spain and the United States is not the quality of people that will be made the beneficiaries of recognition of the independence of Cuba by the Ameri- can government. There Is higher and nobler cause involved For the past thirty years the Cubans have, at various times, been struggling for their independence No nation on the face of the earth has been more tyranical, more infamous than has Spain. Its method has been that of butch cry, instead of perpetuating a love of coun- try.
 Spain sends no flowers. No dove of love perches over the portals of her capitol. Spain has no love for her subjects in Cuba It was Spain that established the inquisi- tion Spains rule in Cuba has been without a parellel in the history of civilized nations. The heel of oppression has been upon the necks of the Cubans from time immemorial. During the last two and one-half years the most inhuman war in the histories of the world has been carried on by Spain against people who were fighting for their own lib- erty, their own freedom and the right to govern themselves
 Paying Tribute to Spain
 The exchequer of Cuba has gone empty to fill the depleted treasury at Madrid. The millions contributed by Cuba has gone to Spain to build up more tyranny, purchase more guns, more machettes; in fact, more death dealing instruments with which to punish the people for struggling for that which is properly their's-liberty. The United States government-a Christian gov ernment-would be untrue to its principles and form of government, untrue to its peo- pie, untrue to everything that is noble and inspiring untrue to every throb of love for justice, should it not intercede, and drive from the island of Cuba the flag of Spain, which, as Senator Thurston well said, was a nation which erected more crosses in the name of the Christian religion and com mitted more murder under those crosses than all the nation of the world.
 The forefathers, who builded the Amer ican republic, knew the value of liberty. They shed their best blood and carved for themselves a republic in opposition to ty- ranny fastened upon the colonies not un- like that pursued by Spain against the Gu bans. No person can read the military his tory of Weyler and not be convinced that more brutal and unsympathetic man was ever placed at the head of an army. The infamy of Spain could not be printed in a volume as thick as the Washington monu- ment Is high. It has offered more insults to the American government than all the na- tons of the world. It Is a nation built upon treachery and deceit. Falsehood and in- fanny are its cardinal principles. Like Its people, it smiles when looking you in the face, and like the assassin that it is, stabs you in the back.
 Two Principles in View
 If the American government goes to war with Spain, it has two principles in view. The first is to drive from the American con- tnent the Spanish flag, which Is a constant menace and disgrace to modern civilization. It proposes putting a stop to a war that is carried on at the expense of defenseless women and children, war as un- Christian-like as 1t is cruel. 8 war that any other country than Spain would not be party to. The other reason, and 1t is ap- parent that that one will be magnified to it's correct importance, the resentment of Spain's treachery in the wholesale murder of American seamen, and the destruction of an American war vessel. These are' the principles that will actuate this govern ment in taking a hostile position against Spain. It is not who Is to be freed from the yoke of bondage, but it Is to be the free dom of people against the tyranny of an outrageous government. This country Is in- famed from one end to the other. It Is not overstepping the mark to say that the sen- timent of the people, as reflected here by
 
 without an equal in the history of the na- tion. If the American people are anything, they are fair, just, manly and honest. They have national pride, and justly so,ss There IS no north nor is there any south in this con fict. This is time when the Americans are the same from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf. It is not a question as to whether 1t will be more ruinous to one section than to another. As the matter now stands, and as it appears to those who are best prepared to form opinions, hostilities will be carried on, if at all, upon the island | of Cuba and not in any part of the United States
 No Telling Where It Would End That it may reach the United States is not improbable. In fact, there Is no telling where war may end if 1t should once begin. While the American navy Is well equipped for combat with Spain, it may prove dis- astrous-Spain may be the victor There was time when 1t was the greatest naval