The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-04-06
WAR NOT UNSUITABLE.

The whole country is now upon
the anxious bench, awaiting the effect
of President Mckinley's message.
History does not recall time when
the head of this government had a
more perplezing problem to solve
and under such embarrassing sur
roundings. The United States and
Spain have been enjoying friendly
relationship two governments feel 8
kind of kinship; within almost speak
ing distance of the United States IS
the Island Of Cuba, in the very throes
of agony brought about by her own
people, and now they are crying for aid.
This island has always been lava bed
of insurrection and it has kept the
mother country in state OF feverish
anxiety; but with all OF the outbreaks
which have occurred our government
has never before felt called upon to
interfere. Are there grounds for IN
reference now9 It is true that suffer
ing exists, many of those people have
not the comforts OF life and starva-
ton stares them in face, but is that
not one of the usual results of war?
When the war between the States
was raging there we're times when
the people OF the South found the
necessaries of life scant, no foreign
country came forward and intervened.
In our opinion many of the reports
which reach US from Cuba are highly
colored, and many of them purpor-
ting to come from Cuba, actually
eminate in the headquarters of the
Cuban Junta in New York city. This
Cuban organization is one of the
most complete that was ever organ
lied in this country, it seems to have
any amount of money and IN every
city in this country it has branches
and agents scattered everywhere.
This organization has through some
influence, about gotten possession OF
Congress, and the great daily news.
pagers. It is openly charged that
Senators Thurston and Gallinger who
returned from Cuba with such graph
ic accounts OF the cruelities and bar
barism, were the paid representa-
tives of the newspapers controlled by
the Cuban Junta. 1t is also strongly
iutimated that the reports of these
two Senators were written before
they left for Cuba, and the dramatic
speech of Senator Thurston. in which
he so feelingly alluded to his dead
wife was studiously prepared and was
in cold type in the newspaper Offices
twelve hours before lis delivery.
If these charges are true, surely
the United States Senate is not that
high and honorable body represented
to be. The idea of Senators using
such a high Office as means to assist
secret orgsnizationsin an insnrrection
against friendly power. If these
Senators were the paid representa-
tives of newspaper or an organiza-
ton they should not be allowed to
remain upon the floor OF the Senate
no more so, than q Senator who is
the paid representative of concern
seeking to make contract with the
government to build battleships
President Mckinley mas grasped the
situation and realizes that be has an
up hill job on his hands in the effort
to save this country from being plung-
ed into war, by set of hot-headed
men who will not have to share any
of the trial, dangers, and privations
of war. We venture that if a resolu-
ton is offered in Congress declaring
war, and in it is incorporated clause
that it shall become the duty Of the
members of Congress to take the
field, the resolution will fail of pas
sage, and if it does pass, it
would be followed by another almost
Immediately declaring peace. The
people do not want a war as they do
not feel that there exists just cause,
nor is their anything in the present
contention which appeals to their pa
triotism. If this government forces
war, the people will go into it cold
blooded, upon the principle of wheth-
er right or wrong, t!ey ill fight for
the nations flag.