The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-12
WHEN TO RECOGNIZE.
Proper Time the United states should Take
This Action.

This Action.
When II shall appear hereafter that
there is within the island a government
capable Of performing the duties and
discharging the functions OF a separate
nation, and having, as a matter of fact.
the proper forms and attributes of ma
tionality such government can be
promptly and readily recognized, and
the relations and interests of the United
States with such nation adjusted.
There remain the alternative forms
OF intervention to end the war. either
as an impartial neutral by imposing a
rational compromise between the con-
testants, or as the active ally OF the
one party or the other.
AS to the first IL is not TO be forgot
ten that during the last few months.
the relation of the United States has
virtually been one OF friendly fnterven-
ton in many ways, each not Of itself
conclusive, but all tending TO the ex-
ertion of a potential influence toward
an ultimate pacific result Just and hon
orable to all interests concerned The
spirit of all our acts hitherto has been
an earnest. unselfish desire for peace
and prosperity in Cuba, untarnished by
differences between US and Spain and
unstained by the blood of American cit
liens.
The forcible intervention of the Unit
ed States as neutral to stop the war,
according to the large dictates Of HUI
manity and following many historical
precedents where neighboring states
have interfered to check the hopeless
sacrifice of life by internecene con-
flicts beyond their borders, is justifia-
BILE on rational grounds. 1t involves,
however, hostile constraint upon both
the parties to the contest as we'll as
to force a truce as to guide the eventual
settlement.
The grounds for such intervention
may be briefly summarized as follows:
First, in the cause of humanity and
to put an end to the barbarites, blood
shed, starvation and horrible miseries
now existing there, and which the par
ties to the conflict are either unable or
unwilling to stop or mitigate. 1t is no
answer to say this is all in another
country, belonging to another nation.
and is therefore none of our business.
1t is specially our duty for it is right at
our door.
Second, we owe it to our citizens in
Cuba to afford them that protection
and indemnity for life and property
which no government there can or will
afford. and to that end to terminate the
conditions that deprive them of legal
protection.
Third, the right to intervene may be
justified by the very serious injury to
the commerce, trade and business of
our people and by the wanton destruc-
ton of property and devastation of the
island.
Fourth, and which is OF the utmost
importance. The present condition of
affairs in Cuba is a constant menace
to our peace, and entails upon this gov
eminent an enormous expense. With
such a conflict waged for years in an
island so near us and with which our
people have such trade and business
relations-when the lives and liberty
of our citizens are in constant danger
and their property destroyed and
themselves ruined-where our trading
vessels are liable to seizure and are
seized at our very door by warships
of foreign nation, the expeditions OF
filibustering that we are powerless to
questions and ENGAGEMENTS thus aris-
ing-all these and others that l need
not mention, with the resulting strained
relations are a constant menace to our
peace and compel us to keep on a semi
war footing with a nation with which
we are al DeaCp