Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-25
@ssrx County 9rrala.
ISLAND PoND. FEBRUARY 20.
DO Something Effective
or let IL Alone,

which the tea and stamp laws
which occasioned the American
revolution would he but items.
What our fathers demanded of
the world then, Cuba is demand
ing now. But as indignant as
our people are over Spanish afro
cities, they see their government
standing practically alone as a
new form of government, which
has created and continued ii nat
ural hostility and general jeal-
.ousy among the nations. Emper-
or Wilhelm especially has a bitter
antipathy to the Monroe doc
trine. He is ambitious. England
is at least a sharp rival, and no
nation, especially a naval one,
can be said to be friendly to us.
And of course it is wisdom to
avoid being embroiled in any
contention. The farther the gov
eminent keeps from anything
that would lead to complica tons
the better it is.
But however plausible the sit ua-
ton may appear on the surface
it involves conditions of grave
import. That much of the ex-
ternal manifestations conceals
real designs is getting to be quite
apparent. Beneath hollow pre-
fences there is a bitterness that
the more it suppressed and con.
cealed the more dangerous it is
The air is full of hollow diplo.
macy, and the cool, firm and lean.
did pose of those representing oui
government, especially that o
President Mckinley and Gen
Lee, in the midst of it is remarka
bic. The representative of thu
Spanish government in a privat,
letter characterizes our presiden
in language fit only for aNhabitua
vender of street billingsgate. Hi
real sentiments are brought t.
the surface. He is exposed ant
retires in shame and disgrace
He turns on the threshold of tn
world as he passes into Oblivion
and with fawning and almos
with genuflections of adoratio
tells how much he loves thi
country and how deeply he syn
pathizes with it in the loss {
hundreds of brave men mangle
and slaughtered in the hell whic
Spanish tyranny has made gu
of an island than which thei
was not in all the seas one wit
more happy conditions and OF
pOrtunities.
1t is we'll in these times of no
low pretences to assume att
tudes to correspond with tt
times, but the presence of wa
vessel in the midst of PREACHER
and all the excitement of
bloody war is a mystery t
many. There is a sentiment an
feeling in the country that ifthel
is any work for our war vesse
to do in connection with the ba
barous conditions in Cuba it
to say, even from the mouth
the cannon if necessary, thu
this violation of the rules of civ
warfare has gone far enough an
it must 60 no further. But the
is a restless spirit in the Ian
that hangs on the front and far
and rear of all the movements
the administration. This spir
like the bowling demons tn;
dance around the trial of lola
treated compromisingly and II
fact was never more mantle
than now that passion, rockies
ness and lawlessness feeds on tC
Grafton. The American peopl
at least the great body of thel
are too stable to make it niece
sary to station a war vessel
the midst of active hostilities al
bloody contention with viii
it had no connection, for the pit
pose of appeasing a restlessne
or Impotence. If there was 1
real purpose in sending it the
except to exercise some moral
tlrence does the character of tt
one comport with such desig
lfyou want Cuba and Hayti
and get them like men. Dol
hang round waiting for an oppo
tunity to get into a fight on sol
point on which war would he !,