The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-08
The State Press on Spain SoutnerI

If Spain intends to make a fight OF
it, she would do we'll ito get at it at
once. A little more time and the United
States will be ready for all corners
Such preparations as this would not
mean much for Europe. In the United
States, where war is not our business,
it plainly means that Spain has sinned
awray her day of grace. She must nave
her humiliation; Cuba must be free and
must he vindicated. Yam
KEGS do mot ~spendfifty millions of dol
lars on a bluff.-Southern Presbyter-
ian.
Tt is evident to all Americans that
Cuban troubles will not end until the
hand of Spain is entirely removed.
Much ais We desire peace, we hope the
war furry will not pass away until
Cuba. is free. That seems to be the
only way to permanent peace.-Rich-
mond (Va.) central Presbyterian.
congress, however, is not disposed
now to ask anything less than the in
dependence of Cuba, and that is what
it will insist upon when it meets on
Monday. The fact of Spain's
Willingness to wholly change her policy
in respect to the recOncentrddOS Will
! 1loI S1ICiIlS III
wal is averted it will be OF
| further concessions by Spain or offers
| of mediation by European powers,
| neither Of which things noW seems
| acknowledgements News.
This government is going to dilly dali
ly over the Spanish-Cuban question I'M
| til Spain lis ready to strike us a ter
rible blow at the very outset of hos
Utilities, should the latter ur.-Ho
ton Post.
NORTHERN REPUBLICAN,.
THE most monstrous misrepresenta-
| tion of the people which the country
has seen since the time of our civil
war is to be witnessed at this
at the capitol. There i'm both houses
of congress, with man. though too few
exceptions, and notably i'm the senate,
are to be seen mature men, heads OF
families, nominal Christians, writing,
haranguing, lobbying, for what would
be the most ~disgraceful, because of um-
necessary, war of our century.-Hart-
ford COurant.
| Doubtless the majority of the repub-
| lican members of the present house are
| controlled by what they consider their
| chance in the autumn elections in lax
| ing radioa1 or conservative courses on
| the Cuban question. They become pam
ic-stricken at the thought that the
president may he dilatory or irresolute
with Spain, and hat they will have to
answer to their constituencies for any
diplomatic errors he may
Sprin gfield Republican.
1T would be interesting to have some
of the so-called party explain exactly
what they want, and why, and how
they propose to get it. They are not.
they say, satisfied with the presidents
policy. They want something else.
Tt rests upon those who ad-
vocate wal to prove THAT these ends
cannot be secured by peaceful means
just as promptly and more effectively
than by war. = When a man
there is no other conclusion possible
than that he wants it for its own sake.
New York Tribune
NORTHERN DEMOCRATIC.
If we are to go to wal with the
! SpaniardS We certainly cannO permit
them to prolong the diplomatic stage OF
the controversy by propositions as
aimIess and futile as their warfare in
Cuba until they have transferred their
entire navy to American waters and
put themselves in entire readiness for
action. Spain has come to
the end of her p~ostponements with us.
Her time is up. The opportunity she
now asks for to arrange the terms OF
IAN honorable and stable peace" is
Enthusiastically based upon the as
sertion That the cortes alone can deal
with that matter. The cortas does not
meet until the end of the month. But
the cortes has been in session since
President Cleveland warned Spain six
teen months ago that the savagery in
Cuba must stop. There has been time
to prepare for IAN honorable and sta
BILE peace" since President Mckinley
repeated the stern warming in Decem-
| Der last.-New York Times.
Let every good citizen, every Oh
truth, justice and national honor, wait
upon and sustain the president, and
: turn a deaf ear to sensational shriekers
for devastating and bloody war, wheth-
er in or of congress! The
: deeper emotions of a great nation often
remain unexpressed- But the president
has had constant knowledge of the va
porings of the irresponsible froth and
scum, ready to shed blood or TO do any
thing else for excitement Or gain
Philadelphia Record.