The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-22


In the Academy Of Music Sunday
morning C13th) Rev. Thomas Dixon,
Jr., read a d~enunciation of Dupuy de
LONE and spoke with warm feeling of
the attitude OF Spain toward this coun-
try, which made the disgraced minis
ter's insults possible.
His remarks were cheered to the
echo and the audience that crowded
the big building shouted Let US get
at the Spaniards!" Let there be war;"
Down with the woman slayers." and
other remarks of a similar strain.
Lest it be said that / nave spoken
in bitterness and hastily, and lest my
words be made other than they are"
Mr.. Dixon said, Il have written DELHI
erately what l wish to say" He then
read from his manuscript:
Spain has lost an invaluable ser
want at Washington in the person of
Mr.. De LONE. He was a colossal and
masterful liar, a most artistic and on
vincing hypocrite, and he knew above
all how to play fast and loose with the
puny managers of our foreign affairs.
1t is really too bad that a man of his
superb gifts should come to grief
through a small sized letter written in
a thoughtless moment of truthfulness
to a friend. He Will be promoted to
high honors in Spain. Such a man de-
! serves high place from such a govern
! ment.
The audience cheered Justify and
there were shouts of kick De LONE
out!-' Lets fight, and Give it to
him!" from every part of the house.
The preacher had evidently echoed the
sentiments of his hearers concerning
the letter-writing diplomat.
call in all, Mr.. Dixon continued,
there is a lot of grim humor in this
Spaniard's letter and the light it
throws on Cuban affairs at Washing
ton. When a government gets down
as low in the mire as ours has in the
last two years it is pretty hard to kick
it hard enough to make an insult felt.
But the question now is, how can the
state department have the brazen eff
frontery to continue a policy of bru-
tally toward the Cuban patriots, now
that the mask has been torn off the face
of Spain? We have been told of
SPANS good intentions, of her
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this farce, we behold De LONE frankly
telling his friend that this is merely
for show; that Mckinley is a pothouse
politician, and he must have some ex-
cuse to pacify the American rabble.
Why ask of Spain a disavOwal?
Does the administration want still
further lying and humbugging from
Spain in order to pacify the 'rabble?
The cat is out of the bag. Nobody can
be fooled any longer. Spain can dis
avow and disavow, she can doubtless
send us as big a liar as De Lone, blu
what is the use? De LONE told the
simple truth about her policy. All the
smirks, smiles and lies of the combined
diplomacy of the world cannot altar
that fact.
1.-The time has come to act. Let oul
government recognize Cuba and the
war is at an end. There is absolutely
no longer a single vestige of excuse
for our criminal course of assisting
Spain to kill hundreds and thousands
or women and children at our very
doors. The republican party is walk
ing in the centre Of a smOldering vol.
cano. The responsibility is clearly
fixed on the party.
I'VE are sick of the whine of stock
jobbers and pedlers, who tell u:
through their p~usillanimous press tina
we are lot prepared for a war will
Spanish braggarts who, unable to con
quer a handful of Cubans, show theil
prowess by penning up women ant
children and starving them to death.
The day has come for a genuine re
vival of national faith and patriotism
1t is our duty to stop the murder o
women and children in Cuba. We owe
it to our fathers, who thought tina
freedom is the birthwright of humanity
If Spain dare fight us for doing oul
duty to country, humanity and God
then let her draw her sword and die
1t has or will come, now or later"
The conclusion of Mr.. DixOn's re
marks was greeted with applause 81
great that he was forced to reques
that the demonstration be stopped.
He then proceeded with his sermon
of the day, a discussion of the trial o
the deputy sheriffs who killed thu
strikers at Lattimer. He urged tn
right of the laborers and prayed TO
justice to be melted out to the mel
who had wantonly shot them down il
cold blood.-New York Journal.