The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-04-22
Afraid to Trust Mckinley.

LOT lHe evils tIldt DeSel Inc ndtiOH anu diS |
affecting Cuba to its death. That remedy ]
is diplomacy. He is like the doctor who
had but one remedy and understood treat
ing only one disease, which was fits Mr..
Mckinley has thrown this nation, Cuba
and Spain into fits, ard still he fails to be
able TO treat them. And if allowed to
have his way he will continue to back
down, or out, till the last reconcentrado is
starved to death, and then succor will not
be needed and all will be peace. No
| intervention" will be necessary. The
Spaniard will still be i'll the towns, the
insurgents in the mountains and forests,
and the assassin ready with his knife for
any American that ventures on the island.
This must be the inevitable result of
McKinley's policy if not interfered with.
The public last week were not little
puzzled over the contention in Congress,
in the Senate especially, about the terms
of expression in the Cuban resolutions.
Whether it should be acknowledgement of
independence of the Cnban republic and
intervention, or all intervention without
a formal acknowledgment of the republic
of Cuba. The disappointment caused by
the presidential message in proposing no
plan by which the administration would
deal with the problem, was linked with
alarm at the Presidents yelled meaning
that he proposed to use the army and
navy not 10 Gust Spain from Cuba but to
restore peace by crushing the Cuban in
surgeuts and restoring a stable govern
ment to the island under Spain. All the
papers outside of the pronounced gold
ring journals reached this conclusion
after studying the yelled language of the
message, as also the larger part of Con-
gress and they absolutely refused to grant
the Presidents request to place the army
and navy at his discretion.
In the meantime McKinley's diplomacy
had compromised the nation by hav-
ing made no demands on Spain except TO
suspend hostilities, and allowing the inter-
ference of foreign powers through their
consuls which had never been permitted
before, thus establishing precedent that
may be taken advantage of in future. The
wires have been kept hot by Archbishop
Ireland and Cardinal Gibbons, between
the Vatican and the White House osten-
sibly in the interest of peace" but in
; fact the peaceful effort has for its main
object the establishment Of an apparent,
if not an actual, influence of the Pope in
the foreign relations of the United States
government.
MI. Mckinley thinks his great forte in
!, government is diplomacy and OH that
: chessboard he has been playing with
Spain for whole year and his message
} resulted i'll the modification of Congress
and the whole country, that he has been
, overreached and beaten at every point of
the game, and Congress refuses to trust
him with discretionary powers 10 use the
army and navy to settle the Cuban
tragedy.
The real, undeniable truth is that the
President is helpless in the hands of the
money trust. That power lifted him into
the presidential chair on gold spoon and
the gold power continues to hold the
handle, and by movement of the handle
can face the timid, weak and wabbling
President any way they choose. There
are $500, ooo, 900 of Spanish bonds held by
the money cliques, and their scheme has
been to save all or part of them if pos
sible by holding Cuba as security, or by
having the United States assume the debt.
The question, even above that of Cuba,
is, when will the American people get the
wool removed which this gold standard
money ring has drawn over their eyes,
and elect President who is free from
and untrammeled by the enslaving money
power? In Cleveland they had a coarse,
characterless embodiment of greed. In
Mckinley they have the most purposeless,
vacillating, wabblihg, weakling that it
has ever been the misfortune of the
country to elevate to the chief magistry.
A Congress of his own party is afraid to
trust him i'll the hour of the countfy's
foreign crisis, lest he betray it by his
weakness.