The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-08
STATE PRESS OPINION.

SPANS navy may well be called floating
debt.-Marion News.
senator Turpie is very warm for war with
SPAN. The old man wasn't so hot during
the days of 81 to '65.-Frankfort News.
Had Spain been so eager to stop the war
a year ago as she is to-day her chances Of
success would have been much better.@Fort
Wayne Gazette.
Nothing short Of free and Independent
cuba will satisfy the American people If
That result can be brought about by diplo-
macy so much the Observation-Disclosures
NO one cares what the Cuban insurgents;
want. What the people of this country want
IS peace in Cuba, and we are going to have
1t II we have to lick the combatants on both
sldes.-hokomo News. 1881
We have reached that point in war com
plications where 1t is appropriate to recall
| that the American sword is never drawn
without cause; never sheathed without hon
OF. Lafayette Courier.
1t is claimed by those who are opposed to
Cuban independence that they are incapable
of SELF government They could not make n
greater failure than the Spaniards have.
Clay County Enterprise.
The history of Spain on this continent
has been written in the blood of its victims
from the time of Cortez and Pizarro down
10 the infamous Weyler, and still the hell
If nothing else comes out of it, all this
war talk will result in the people learning
something about the army ard navy OF
America; also a little of geography and
something of international law.-Cambridge
City Tribune.
We are all agreed that the time has come
when, in the name of humanity and Chris
tianity, the Spanish butcher shop in Cuba
should be closed. II Spain refuses to vacate
without fight. the sooner the fighting is
done the better.-Sullivan Union.
There is no question but that the person
or persons who planted the mine under the
Maine We're experts The act showed the
most thorough professional knowledge Of
high explosives in destroying a ship at a
single bloW.-Lawr enceburg Press.
If we We're only on the inside how much
better we could manage affairs than Nc
Kinley and those other small fry around
him. There are only a few of US great men
left. When we are gone what will this poor
world do? 1t makes US lonesome to think of
it,-NoblesVille Ledger.
Cuba must be free The President is work
ing to that end. 1t is his privilege and duty
to convey to Congress, his ideas as to how,
in his opinion, this can best be accomp-
lished. We reiterate our faith in President
Mckinley, in this moment of painful wait
ing. He will not disappoint his friendS-but
he will confound his enemies.-Lafayette
Call. 4g
While Grover Cleveland was President of
the United States, and war and starvation
was raging in Cuba, Hon. Claude Matthews,
then Governor of Indiana, made a speech in
Philadelphia on the situation in Cuba. He
favored acknowledging the independence of
Cuba, provided Cleveland favored such a
move otherwise he was opposed to any in
reference. He was then willing to leave it
to Grover. The war continued two years
under Cleveland, but he never raised a
sympathetic hand to help the struggling in
Republican President is at the helm and
has done everything in his power to feed
and alleviate the distress of the starving
reconcentrados of Cuba. and to bring about
their independence, such patriots as the
Hon. Claude Matthews are denouncing
he has not got any backbone. Such remarks
are very unbecolning in such men as Mr..
observation-disclosures State.