The Portland daily press., 1898-04-09
CALLED THEM TORIES.
Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Sizes Up the
Massachusetts Reform Club.

Boston, April S-Many stirring speeches
for peace were made at the meeting Of
the Massachusetts Reform club tonight,
the principal one being delivered by Hon
Charles Frances Adams. This gentleman
said that today the situation was not q
subject for discussion but it was a con-
dition which confronted the country.
Continuing, he said: ''The present
British ambassador to Italy said to me
one year ago: 'Thers are two things in
this world which I believe should have ar
end Turkish rule in Europe and Spanish
rule in America. Neither has good
ground for remaining and both should be
swept away"
Mr.. Adams Ikened the present situa
ton to that which existed before ths
Greco Turkish war Of year ago. The
powers offered autonomy to Crete and il
it had been accepted by Greece, 1t would
have been another wedge against Turkish
rule in Europe. The jingoes at Athens
however, rushed Greece into war, refus
ing autonomy from Crete, just as the
jingoes at Washington are trying to dc
today, and we all know the result of that
war.
"Our case resembles Greece, except In
might. I believe that the course of Presi
dent Mckinley was at the beginning
founded on sound statesmanShip, and II
his hand had not been forced, he would
have succeeded in crushing out Spanish
rule in America. 1 think the President
understood the situation and but for The
Maine affair, would have succeeded.
"He has been obliged to commit him.
self to q policy which he does not believe
in and that sentiment in the country In
which we have the least confidence is ap-
parently in control believe that when
the last word Is said and all means ex
hausted, our recourse Is to crush. hope
the war will be short, but feel that the
end Of the war will be the beginning of
trouble, what cannot tell. -
Gamaliel Bradford criticised Congress
and said they were flock of sheep driven
in by the applause of the galleries and
without shepherd. The only antago.
ntstic speech made during the evening
was that of Robert Treat Paine, Jr., who
rated the club in round terms, calling the
peace advocates tories and likening them
to those citizens of Boston, who, In revo-
lutionary days, sided with General Gage
and denounced the colonies.
A number of members replied to Mr..
Paine and at the close of the meeting
resolutions were passed endorsing the
efforts of the President and Congress to
end the sufferings in Cuba by peaceful
measures and also believing it still pos
sible to satisfy the demands of humanity
without recourse to arms. The resolution
concluded with the hope that Spain's re-
sponsibility for the Maine explosion might
be submitted to arbitration.
One of the features of the evening was
the statement by member as to the atti-
tude of Speaker Thomas b. Reed. 1t ap-
peared that the member had addressed a
letter to Speaker Reed in which the an
nexation of Hawaii and Cuba were de-
no unced as we'll as intervention in behalf
Of the Cubans.
In reply, Speaker Reed said: IT believe
we have the people of the country with us
on both of these que 'tions War is not to
be gaily INDUCED in rs a festival but en-
tered upon cautiously after every expedi-
emit has been tried