The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-12
KIND WORDS FROM CANADA.
Liberal Organs Express Condemns
ton of Spanish Policy.


ton of Spanish Policy.
Washington Post
1t was, of course, to have been expected
that our Canadian neighbors would re-
IRAN IRAN from any exhibition of unfriendly
teellng toward the government and people
OF the United States in the crisis growing
out of the Cuban situation. In spite of
all the friction that has occurred between
this country and Canada-and there has
been a great deal of it in the last thirty
years-it was not thought of as a posi-
sympathy with Spain in dispute or con-
Illct with this country On the other
nand, there was no expectation of warm
all did we look to the Canadian Liberals
Tor expressions of kindly feeling toward
US and OF strong condemnation of Span
ISM policy. That party, now in control of
me dominion government, has cordial
detestation of the Republican policy of pro-
lections of the result of it's efforts to nego-
tlate reciprocity treaty with the McKin-
ley administration
But to our qualification, if not to our
surprise, the Liberal organs are heartily
commencing President Mckinley and ex-
pressing a hope that our government will
hit the iron heel of Spain from the neckS
OF the Cubans: The Montreal Herald as
serts that Spain has forfeited her title to
Cuba by her inability to conduct the af-
fairs of the island with any semblance of
satisfaction to the human beings who
nave been her subjects there. 1t says that
there are higher laws than that which gives
possession, and if Spain is now on the eve
OF losing colony that might have been a
substantial prop in her day of weakness it
IS because the higher laws which govern
the relations of humanity have for genera
tons been neglected or outraged in that
unhappy island.
The Herald reviews the history of Span
Ism oppression on the island and the long
and brave struggle of the Cubans for lib
erty. There are limits, it says to human
endurance, and it is not to be marveled
at that the Cubans have rebelled time
and again, the sons stepping into the
places left vacant by their fathers, who
feL, or brother after brother giving up his
life, until. as happened in the case of Maceo
and his family, all haVeo persisted for the
common cause Our contemporary adds
have never been utterly in vain, and ex-
presses the belief that the present contro-
Versy will be settled, so far as Cuba is con-
oerned, on lines consistent with the eternal
principles of justice and right
So far as the government and people of
the United States are concerned they ask
only that justice and right may prevail
that disgraces civilization, over wrong
unparalleled in modern history So horri-
BILE is the condition of the Cubans, so ter
rible the suffering imposed on them, so
pathetic the record of deaths from star
walton, and SO irresistible the appeal of
the thousands who are now undergoing
the agonies of a lingering death, that this
duty to humanity demands Intervention. If
Cuba were in midocean her condition would
ers of the earth. Being close to our bor-
Ger other nations are excused or exempt
from interference, and that fact makes our
obligation the more imperative.