Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-03-09

A CERTAIN class of editors and .
certain class Of public speakers, are
now highly exercised over the pro-
posal to make Spain pay for the loss
Of the Maine and pay for the mel
who lost their lives by the explosion
of the ship in the harbor of Havana.
provided that the Maine was exploded
by Spaniards. They say nevsr! nev
er money cannot repsy the insult
offered, or restore the loss of
the lives of ever two hundred
men. Bat the iingoes stop there,
they have not the heart to tell what
che remedy shall be. They have not
the courage to tell that they w~nt
war. They believs their readers and
hearers will take it for granted that
war is the only rsmedy by which the
difficulty can be settled They don't
know or they designedly with hold
the fact that if war is resorted to as
the means Of settlement that the loss
Of life and the loss of property that
they complain of will be multiplied a
thousand times. Millions upon mill
ons of dollars will be lost, millions
worth of property will be destroyed,
and thousands upon thousands of
lives will be lost. And what then.
All, that's the point. What then
Well, the respective countries will be
. great deal worse off than when
they began the war, and Spain if she
is defeated which she will be, will
have to pay an indemnity, she will
have to make good the losses of the
wer, which she can now do a thou.
sand times easier than after she has
passed through a war with the Uni
ted States. The United States would
be no bettes of, after she had de-
fsated Spain. No, she would have to
take indemnity from Spain, a some
thing that the jingoes now effect to
think is of no account in the matter.
The jingo people when they indirect
ly advocate war by denouncing the
acceptance of indemnity money for
the loss Of the Maine and her crew,
put themselves into . contradictory
position, for war would have to
an end some way, and then the de.
fsated party would have to pay indem
nifty. Defeated nations all have to
pay indemnity. When Germany de
feated France in 1870, France was
compelled tc give both land and
money to Germany. She paid Ger
many one billion dollars in gold,
and IN addition to that gave Germany
the states of Alsac- and Lorane. The
United States would be no better off
after having whipped Spain and
made her pay the war debt, and af-
ter taking cuba, than if she simply
demands that the Maine be paid for
with bounty for each of the nen
who lost their lives in the explosion.
That is if it turns out that the Maine
was exploded from the outside. Ia.
deed the United States would be
great deal better off in every way by
PEACEFUL settlement of toe trouble
even if she whipped Spain in every
engagement It is baby's plea to
put IN that it is not patriotic to take
indemnity. Indemnity follows every
war between nations, and it would be
a great deal more sensible and patri.
otto to pay indemnity to prevent q
war than to be stubborn and unpa.
triotic and pay indemnity after de
feat, and after the slaughter ef til ou-
sands Of men aud the orpbanipg of
thousands Of children, and after
hlllng the land with the lamentatiou
of fathers and mothers, and the la.
mentations of the widow and father.
less