The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-04-13


future time they would be Indispensable.
No intimation has been received that,
in the opinion of Spain, that time has
been reached. And yet the strife con
tinues with all its dread horrors and all
its injuries to the interests of the United
States and of other nations. Each
party seems quite capable of working
great injury and damage to the other
as well as to all the relations and inter-
ests dependent on the existence of peace
in the island; but they seem incapable of
reaching any adjustment, and both have
thus far failed of achieving any success
whereby one party shall possess and
control the island to the exclusion of the
other. Under the circumstances, the
agency of others, either by mediation or
by intervention, seems to be the only al
tentative, which must. sooner or later
be invoked for the termination of the
strife"
In the last annual message of my i'm
mediate predecessor, during the pending
struggle, it was said:
when the inability of Spain to deal
successfully with the insurrection has
become manifest and it is demonstrated
that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba
for all purposes of its rightful existence,
and when a hopeless struggle for its re-
establishment has degenerated into
strife, which means nothing more than
the useless sacrifice of human life and
the utter destruction of that very sub.
ject matter of the conflict, a situation
will be presented in which our obliga-
lions to the sovereignty of Spain will be
superseded by higher obligations which
we can hardly hesitate to recognize and
DISCHARGE"
In my annual message to congress, in
December last speaking to this question.
| said: The near future will demon
strate whether the indispensable CON
1tion of a righteous peace, just alike
to the Cubans and to Spain, as we'll as
equitable to all our interests so init
mately involved in the welfare of Cuba,
| is likely to be attained. If not, the eX-
| igcncy of further and other action by the
United States will remain to be taken.
| When that time comes that action will
| be determined in the line of indisputable
| right and duty. 1t will be faced without
misgiving or hesitancy in the light of
the obligation this government owes
to itself, to the people who have con-
fided to it the protection of their inter-
ests and honor and to humanity.
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