El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-05
WATTERSON ON WAR
A Kentucky View of the Cuban Situa-
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We are told that Spain's navy is
more than q match for our navy.
the sailors that man them? We are
told thot Spain can send q fleet up the
Miss ssippi to New Orleans and an
OIL her to Boston. Maybe. If they burn
New Orleans, when the war indemnity
is levied and collected we'll rebuild it,
giving every individual claimant bet
ter house than he had before, and if
they burn Boston, why, as those Yam
kess up there like cash in hand, we'll
pay the bill in full, principal and inter-
est, and, if de ireo, in gold! We are
Pensacola and march throue Georgia.!
Well, Sherman did thst, but WeJ Ter
Can't.
These are but the fgments of the
fancy OF the timid, or else bugaboo
les of Wall street and Beacon Hill to
friR hten children. Assuming that the
boys of today are half as good as their
fathers were in 81, there is hardly
more to fear of Spain than of a lot Of
stoned by the government itself, and
grown big of heart in the spring, start
. raid on Washington. During at
least q century the Spaniard has
shown no warlike capacity. He was
once Q mariner. But who can now tell
what he will do with his ships? In
deed, Spain is so moribund, 60 ehorn
of wealth and power, that, except for
the provoking cause, it were kind Of
cOwardice to allow her to wreck her.
self by contest so unequal.
The resources of the United States
are 80 vast that we ourselves wholly
fail to realize them We are masters
of the greatest of the continents We
are the possessors of q perfect system
of government. On our own ground
We are more than q match for all
Europe, still barring Enq'aod and
Russia. We have to go abroad for
nothing. Within ourselves we are ab-
solutely self-sustaining. In all me-
chanical arts and material appliances
We lead the world. Our food products
are exhaustless. United as a nation
no power on earth could succe ssfully
come against us. This il not bluster.
1t is the simple truth: and the states
men, soldiers and fuanciers of Europe
know it very we'll. The American who
disputes It, either does not know his
own country or greatly overestimates
the outer world. Upon the material
side we have nothing to fear from war.
What of the moral side, the humane
quo. ATuiys WhT IL q &r00b ucSOl6LOr.
1t is cruel, relentless monster. If
we considered it only from the dom es-
tic point of view, the cries of children,
ringing In our ears, the tears of wo-
men, drowning our hearts, the woe of
the weak and the aged penetrating
our very soul, all of US would be cow
ards. If we considered it from the
human point of view, considering the
Claims of q common brotherhood in
christ our Lord, all of us would be
Christians. In That case there would
be no murdered shipmates to mourn,
no starving reconcentrados to deplore
and no assassins to punish. All the
world would be at the peace. The
church bells that ring out goodwill to
man in Tampa would get ready re-
spouse from the citadels of Havana,
and there were never tale of to tell
of treachery and famine. Not yet the
millennium cometh. Man ia still built
the other way. AS long as he is brutal
and revepgeful. he will fight. AS long
as he is generous and brave, he will
fight. And since he has but one time
to die, he is, as q rule, wiling, upon
what he deems sufficient cause, to risk
his one life upon the hazard of the
single certainty that arrives, soon or
late, to all. No man who knows what
war is would hail it with plea
sure, or welcome is as q friend. God
forbid! But God forbid that the peo-
pie of the United States permit these
atrocities in Cuba to continue q day
longer than we can get there with
ships enough and men enough to put q
stop to them forever!-Courier Journal.