Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-28

~ 'lc present time neither the love of
ilpeftE. nor the interests of commerce.
hof the wrongs of injured citizens have
interrupted our amicable intercourse
WIN SPAN. a forhearance like that.
Such an anxiety to keep peace. born Of
helther weakness nor fear. presents a
record OF national self -restraint that
mas not escaped the attention of the
world at large.
me President Of the United States
mas Kept his course refusing to be CO.
'iteo or diINen or turned aside, calm in
'he appreciation Of his own conscience
ana grateful for the confidence of men
ol sense. From the day he entered IN
On ms great responsibility he has kept
before his face one supreme and uIti-
mate thlng. the liberty of Cuba, and
with it the peace and happiness of his
own country
Inc world will hold in increasing
h'h"r that brave and kindly man. who
IN the midst of an uneXampied clamor,
ms llpS sealed by the very nature Of
ms duty, mas had the moral heroism
While the smallest chance remained to
>t@nd as the magistrate of a Christian
people exercising the influence OF his
Cfilce for an honorable peace
The fact that all those humane as
~ '''ii9 ~ "ur government nave call
"V' "o adequate response either
,''i' ii"N qua or Madrld fully Nerifies
tho picture of Spain drawn hv the his
toilan Buckle-'She sleeps on unmoyed
rnheedinS, impassiVe. receiving no inn
prrSSlon from the outside world and
making no impression llp0n it E,v.n.
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eat cnnmuni,v ana v.itbin siott ,r
~. own shores has turned tho f,i,.a.t
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pDCtaElp Of rltrltN and tblf1tr,
'lDi-pair of men and women. tho liz
~ cry OF starving children The ;tapni.,s;
the living. the skeletons Of the dead.
II So incredible realities in Spanish
g;l1&rr. have driven from thu minds
f the American people all thuught OF
hsmSelVeS, of their commerce scatter
q 70 the winds, Of their property des-
,Cilcd, Of their countrYmcn east into
N0@c0ns, OF their %eanen entrappod
nd assaSSihated, all thought even IF
ragged httle army of freedom Non
"i' III me NlNhrlhIe mountains 81 SaU-
Il g" ana nave hiltd the heaFt ot the
al republic WIN Il sense oi DIVINE
.h7Sl"h 70 extern" holp ana mercy ~
a. !'ei ISiii"N iiluI' '""eS "i 'i'd1 Waste"
T." 81 l'Ne" P"lula 1i"ii'
Nc cannot STOP h"W I" put forward 2
l"lm to '"' fcckohtd on the coinage Of
bankrupt treasury Tor IN" h"bl" snip
hich lies. today, broken and dismantled
the most infamous harp"r OF All the
e@S' we q" not kn"" now to ma any
AIRY cal ulau"h the equivalent al hu-
am lives. we VIII not betray our dead.
ne nation OF America III me Tear al H"I
oohtlh& ati the cost tNa'ts IRON SPAN
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