New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-23
Senator Davis
On the Crisis.
He Declares It to be the Duty Of this Gov
eminent to Intervene by Force
of Arms.


United States Senator Cushman X. Da-
Wis of this state has furnished the New
York World the following signed state
ment: ~.
am asked to. give an opinion as to
the duty of this government in the crisis
whichnow confronts this country. That
grave crisis does confront US no sane
: man will longer question. Wisdom die
tates that we deal with one question at a
time: What shall we do for Cuba is the
question of the hour. In saying this l
do not wish to be understood as relegat-
ing to the rear the other great question
that necessarily must come up for settle
ment-viz.: Fixing of the responsibility
for the loss of the Maine and its crew.
At this hour we are in doubt as to the
latter question. We have suspicious, we
surmise, but we do not know. We may
never know the exact truth. We must
at least wait for the evidence, and when
it. is fairly before US deal judicious-
ly with the facts presented.
But as to the first great question, 3How
shall we deal with the Spanish Cuban
situation?" I know of but one proper
way-armed Intervention. Recognition
of Cuban independence will not do.
Recognition is a closed incident, from
the standpoint look at things as they
exist in Cuba. SPANS policy toward
the Cuban is not a legal warfare; it is
murder, pure and simple, compared with
which the deeds of Alva and SPANS
bloody treatment of the Palatinate are
as the blaze of a rushlight to the midday
summers sun. This government has in
controvertible proof th4t Spain has will
fully and Systematically murdered, by
her mode of warfare against the Cubans,
hundreds of thousands of helpless men,
women and children. Spain has killed
by her policy of concentration non
arms-bearing population as large as now
inhabits the national capitol. Just think
of it.
The policy lnaugurated by Weyler is
still pursued. With all these facts be.
fore us the duty of this government is
plain; protests are of no avail. Armed
forces only will check the cruel slaught-
Michael Davitt, the great Irish lead
er, warns the people of the United
States against putting too much trust in
the pretended sympathy of Great Brit
ain. His reasons are expressed in the
following:
The English attitude on the Ameri-
can-Spanish crisis is influenced by two
most selfish motives. First, she jealous
ly breads any conflict which might ex-
hibit the republic as a strong rival naval
power and which would call forth at this
juncture the great potential military
strength of the United States. Secondly,
she wishes by means of a cheap and in
sincere expression of sympathy with the
United States in the quarrel with Spain
to obtain in return the invaluable pres
tige of Americas sympathy in possible
struggle with Russia and Germany in
China. TO this end men and newspapers,
ordinarily most rti-American, as over
the Venezuelan difficulty, are now try
ing to impress France and Russia, Amer
ica's tried friends in the past, with the
idea that an alliance between England
and America is possible of attainment.
Such an alliance, if formed, while Eng
land is distrusted in her motives and
policy by every other civilized nation,
would destroy the great moral influence
which the United States, as non-ag-
gressive and non.grabbing power, yields
throughout the world to-day. The SYM
pathies Of the ruling classes Of England
are really with Spaih. They are as hos.
tile.to America to-day as they were in
the days Of Washington, jackson and.
Lincoln
The friends Of Hon. Robert G.. Evans
4 claim that under no circumstances will
he accept the positlonlof United States
district attorney. Such a step, it is ar
gued, would sidetrack Evans politically,
and, being a young man, his friends are
determined that it shall not occur. They
propose some day to make him governor.
or United States senator.
So New York Mail and Express: Western
monopolists are now organizing colos-3
sal hay trust. The men behind Il are az
yet unknown and It is a wise hay trust
that knowsaits own Fodder.