The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1898-02-24
AS VIEWED BY EDITORS.

opinion or Leading metropolitan Pa
pers Upon the Maine Disaster.
| 1t seems sufficiently clear that our navy
| is lacking in iscipline.-Cincinnat Volks-
| blatt
| Either a great crime has been commit
| ted or there has been an amazing piece
of blundering relessness.-Chicago Rec
| ord.
| If the Maine and $50 of her men have
| been lost through Spanish treachery let
| Spain take the Cincinnati
| Enquirer.
To attempt to pass judgment on the
Maine disaster with the present informa-
ton would be the height of folIy.-De-
trOit News
The first duty of the country with re-
gard to the terrible tragedy is to keep
cool, that we may learn the facts-Bos-
ton Transcript.
There is nothing in the reports 10 offset
the fearful suspicion that the Maine was
deliberately destroyed by a Spanish tor
pedo-Cincinnat Times Star.
No possible explanation can stife the
voice of the people calling for Intervention,
in the interest of Cuba by our Govern
ment.-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
The American people should decide
whether playing at war is not too expen-
sive an amusement when it entails such
4 terrible cost.-Chicago Chronicle
The people believe the burden of proof
rests upon Spain to demonstrate beyond
cavil that the blowing up Of the Maine
was an accident.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
Many modern battle ships have been
wrecked in a similar way and just as sud-
denly without any reasonable ground for
suspicion of an attempt at wholesale mur-
der.-Chicago Stats Zeitung.
All this occurred in the harbor of q
friendly nation Now let the Spaniards
prove their friendship by absolving them
selves from all responsibility for the ca
tastrophe.-St. Louis Republic.
There are scores of possible explana-
tions, each of which would seem more rea-
sonable than the base insinuations against
the nation whose hospitality cur repre-
sentatiyes were enjoying.-Philadelph
Record.
The disaster to one of the finest ships
Of our navy and the sacrifice Of so many
brave lives, not to the formal defense Of
the country, but TO Il strange and horri-
bic fate, casts gloom over the whole ma
tion.-St Paul Globe.
The American people are not so callous-
ed by prejudice as to close their eyes and
ears to the probability that the explosion
was due to causes with which the Span
ish Government could have no remote con-
nection.-Detroit Journal.
Sober second thought will carry convic-
ton to all fair and open minded mon that
it is better to await the results of an ia-A,
vestigation before jumping to The conclu- J
sion that Spanish malice is at the bottom
of it.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Has treachery been added to Guylicity?
will be the almost universal inquiry. to
which q reply will be awaited with the
deepest interest throughout the nation. If
such were the case it would take rank as
the crime of the ceatU-E.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The suspicion of Spanish troachcry cx-
hibited by section Of American opinion
looks Ill beside the accounts Of tie spIen-
lid gallantly of the suspects in saving
drowning Americans. ard it indicates an
ugly temper toward Spain.-LJndon Daily
Mail.
1t is impossible to refrain from the sus-
1icion that the explosion may have been
:aused by toui means. That this terrible
went should have occurred in the harLor
# Havana renders solution Of the rays-
cry of international mportamce-L0udoa.
Globe
If IIidalgo hatred of Americans blew
Up the Maine then the pre- of every life
must be paid FOR in Spanish gold. The
mount of such damages tni-!it r.:,ci, go
but il would have :" - forth
oL---.g II the b.H paid il b.ayL-.'I.l-
nnati Evening Post.
1t is not surprising that ther" should be
many wild rumors ahoat. for in TIE p-es-
Mt straiDed relations between i:.ts e.1un-
~ and Spain there viii De Il Hatl.rai ten
ency to attribute the explosion TO the
not to the agents of
he Spanish GCvc-nmeat-Ia -IaL:ananoiis
Jews.
As disastrous things as az au1:li.ati1g
zplosior have happened 20 : uIc, ...:,n bat
e ships through accident 9 : II -..i:...a4t.-
lent. and the terrible iEc;dpl: !. he
iarana haEbor may he hut :;I.egi cr- r .IieS
,ng series of n,iSfortUHes t1aL law. ne-k
liien or navy In tie last cc..- yc.,.s.-(