The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-19
AS VIEWED AT WASHINGTON
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Washington. March I5.-(Staff Specially
a very sudden and great change seems
to have come over the war situation as
viewed from the White House standpoint
since my letter written the other day.
Mark Hanna. McCook, the Wall street
agent, ex-Vice President Levi p. Morton
and every force available to the goldbugs
and bond sharks of Europe ana this coun-
try are concentrated here and are ham
mering the immortal ichor out of Nc
Kinley to compel him to force an adjourn
ment of congress and settle this whole
affair on peace at any old price basis,
and, instead of furnishing Spain and lning
her afterwards, they would erect a dollar
mark as head stone over the graves Of
every sailor who was mastered OH the
Maine.
The question OF adjournment has come
very sharply 10 the front in the last day
or two and 1t is the important one now
under discussion Tom Reed is working
the administration or Mark Hanna rabbit
foot and trying to force his hitherto sub
servient majority TO pass an adjournment
resolution at the earliest possible moment,
but they are bucking and kicking like a
Texas broncho with a sore back Those
fellows know that Tom Reed and the add
minstration cant re elect them next fall
and they also know that IL this congress
adjourns before some definite action is
taken on this Maine affair and before The
irritating Cuban situation is settled and
provision made to stop the starvation of
innocent women and babes in that unhappy
island, that there won't be enough repub-
lIcans In the next house of representatives
to wad shotgun.
And while this is true and there is no
sort Of doubt that the democratic party
would be vastly benefited from partisan
standpoint by such action on the part of
the republican party yet can not believe
that democratic senators and representa-
tives are so lost to every instinct OF duty,
patriotism and honor as to adjourn and
60 home for the now acknowledged pur-
pose of turning the questions of the Hav
ana massacre over TO the Spanish Cuban
bond sharks.
Yet. that is exactly what the admins
tration expects to be done, according TO
the utterances of its organs today. Me-
hinley appears to have surrendered to
Hanna. Mccook d. Co. completely That
is conceivable enough but that the DEM
ocratc minority in congress is also ready
to bow down and worship them, II true, Is
as Infamous as 1t is amazing. This plot
against our National honor, now fully I'M
folded. should find no liberation In any
American heart The scheme to get con-
gress to guarantee an indemnity to Spain,
having failed, the administration now pro-
poses TO promote one which, in principle
Is vastly more villanous than the other
According to the latest programme. con-
greas Is TO adjourn as soon as some gar
bled and peacefully edited report from the
Maine board of inquiry has been handed
IN and without taking any action upon It,
One administration organ said the report
was not expected for ten days yet. ] am
prepared TO say that everything material
in that report is now in the hands of the !
president. and that the information 1t con-
tains Is Of such nature that. to give It |
out to congress, and the country, would |
spoil the new game of the bond sharks. |
even as the massacre OF Havana spoiled |
the old.
With congress off his hands" Mr.. Nc
Kinley will be at liberty to assist in the |
deal, He does not now expect war, and
II our legislators abandon their posts at
this juncture, he will not have it, but
rather peace with abject dishonor.
The bond syndicate will offer to buy
Cuba and pay the Spanish debt. Now the
crime in this proposition lies in the fact
that Spain does not own or control Cuba
and could not deliver 1t to the purchasers.
i'he actual possession of the country has
passed out OF Spanish hands into those OF
he Republic of Cuba. 1t Is therefore plain
hat the scheme involves pretended pur-
'hase OF Cuba from Spain, to be enforced
against the Cubans by armed Intervention
u this country with or without the CO.
operation of other nations whose hest |
business interests are parties 10 the bond
leal.
1t is inconceivable that the American
congress-. knowing what is practically ad-
nitted by the conspirators, should even
iescrt its post without first providing
lgainst the possibility of depriving tue
cuban patriots Of the independence they
AVE won so hardly or of loading upon
heir already overburdened shoulders,
without their consent. debt which they
10 not owe which they could never pay,
md which was incurred by Spain for the
purposes of their reconquest or of eXter-
nination. 1t is positively painful to see
reported in the press of the country
hat there are democrats in congress- who .
AXE cynical. partisan view of this con
piracy, and are willing to let 1t succeed, /
hat It's crimnality may react upon the
arty responsible for Il. Nothing could be ,
ess American, less patriotic OF less worthy ,
4 the political descendants of jefferson
nd jackson.
Men who are capable OF entertaining the ,
aea that subornation OF National crime a
'ill conduce to their personal or party I
God ARE also unsusceptible 10 appeal on
he grounds of justice or humanity They I
,ay be able. however, TO zee that such n :
ne of faction may not, after all. be good I
olitics and that they are falling into a 1
rap prepared for them by the astute syn r
ieate now in control OF the government. q
II democrats submit 10 the proposed plan n
I the administration, knowing It's true v
haracter and purpose they will be held
lually responsible with their republican
for It's accomplishment Their
,nstituents Will accuse them Of criminal
eglect of duty and federation of n gigan- n
c outrage upon justice and the cause of
lmanity. while their opponents next No n
amher VIII be able to say that the demo- y
attic minorities in senate and house ac-
pied the nefarous bond deal by con- a.
'nting TO an adjournment VIGOROUSLY pro-
'sed for the single purpose of carrying II ri
trough. Hence, any udium thar may ~