The times., 1898-03-04

President McfInleE mas not YET sent
the Cuban correspondence to Congress.
nor viii he send il there if he can possibly
avoid doing SO.
The Times is in possession Of facts
which account for his course in with
holding H. From information that is alb
solute it may be said that the President
S afraid to i.Epart to Congress The knowl-
edge already possessed 10y him. a gen
tleman who has read the correspondence
has talked with a representative Of this
paper. and he declared less than twenty
four hours ago that in his opinion the cor
respondence would never in its present
primary state be transferred TO the legis-
lative branch OF the Government.
To save itself from the wrath OF hu-
name people. the Administration must
Harble-the record
The correspondence fastens on Spain
things SO inconceivabIy atrocious. so un-
spealzably infamous tha, it would damn
the party whose Pharisaical expressions
al St Louis in 1886 are stiIl ringing in the
public ear.
The consular letters are terrible.
They show the Spain Of today TO he as
bad as the Spain OF the middle ages
worse. for the engiaeery OF Oppression
has been improved, along with other
things. since the days of the rack and
thumb-screw.
II would not do TO let the liberty-lov-
ing American people know how a large
percentage Of the l0o,0oO victims of
Spain's rapacity have met their death in
Cuba since 1895.
il would moi do To set forth in detail
before Americans the outrages upon
women and the torture of children that
were a part OF Weylerism. and that have
not been eliminated by the present re-
gime.
BUT President Mckinley is familiar
with The report He has read it, He
knows these things by heart in all their
sickenine. accusing. devilish defoTmity.
He knew them when he sent the battle
ship Maine TO Havana harbor on =
friendly visit he knew them when he
read BlancO's hypocritical letter of con
dolence after The tragedy of February
l5; he knew them when Secretary
Long filed his first declaration of be
lief in the accident theory. he knew
them. TOO, when the Secretary OF
the Navy Zolstered up the stock mar
ket last Tuesday by saving without war
rant that the element Of Spanish respon-
sibility had been eliminated; he knew
them when on last Sunday, SNUG and
comfortable, he sat in pew and was
exalted by a ''peace-at-any- price pull
piteer because il had been intimated that
the administration was ready 10 dicker
with Spain and compound felony
with gold.
All these things The President knows
and has known. and there has not been
a minute since one year ago at noon to-
day when he could not have stopped the
crimes and punished the criminals by a
simple scratch OF the pen
This the American people as n whole
would have applauded. But the Ameri-
can people as a whole have not invested
IN Spanish bonds.
The Times knows what the consular
correspondence contains and il invites
Mr.. Mckinley 10 lay The letters before
Congress
Many horrors have been portrayed in
the censored and smugRled press dis
patches from Cuba, but the worst Of
these, taken together. construct q SYM
postum OF peace and purity beside the
unpublished inferno whereof The PFeSi-
dent knows and viii not tell.
There are few people who have read
this entire correspondence through. They
are almost all people who aided in its
preparation one Of these said 10 q re-
porter for The Times last night IN all Sc
robustness.
Unless the unforeseen occurs. this cor
resp0ndence VIII never be seen by the
world. The present intent Of this Admin
istTati0n Is 10 wait until the Maine dis
aster is out Of the way When that is
settled amicably and without hurting the
feelings of The bondholders. Mr Mckinley
intends 10 give the Cuban correspondence
10 Congress without reserve
There was at first the intention on Mr.
Mckinleys part 10 withhold a large part
of the correspondence out Of fear, but
since the Maine affair he has decided TO
turn over every line Of il as soon as the
people are sufficiently calmed 10 receive
II nationally He has this righteous de-
termination now as propiJiatory offer
ing IN consenting 10 the policy OF dis
honor with regard TO the Maine for Mr.
Hanna, but he VIII give it up when Mr.