The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-30

industry; the blows we strike do not
recon upon ourselves. To prefer for
eign war seems 3. selfish satisfaction,
yet it is most natural one. We can
all subscribe to this: If we must shoot,
let US kill SDaniards
What a marvellous comfort it is that
we are at peace with ourselves; that
not a vestige of the old civi. strife re-
mains to vex us; that the Union is
fully restored. The men who thirty
five years ago fought against the Star
Spangled Banner are now marching IN
der its glorious shadow. The states that
once seeded from the Union rather
than set the negro free are now send
ing negro volunteers - Cuba to set the
Cubans free. Yankee Doodle and
Dixie are blended into a national
medley Joe Wheeler. whose confeder-
ate cavalry was wont to terrify the
Union heart, is now major general III
the United States armv and pouring hot
shot into Santiago de Cuba. General
Lee of Virginia is called by the Span
iards a Yankee pig. Theodore ROOse-
welt of New York assistant secretary
of the United States navy, has resigned
that distinguished position to become
lieutenant colonel of a regiment OF cav
airy recruited largely from the state of
Texas. These are miracles worked by
just God, who dOeth ali things well,
and who holds in his hand the destiny
Of nations as well as of men.
The blowing up of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbOr on the night
of Feb. Is last was the beginning of
the first real foreign war in which the
United States was ever engaged. The
revolution was a war for independence
from the mother country. The war Of
1912 was but the finishing stroke Of
what the revolution had begun. The
war with Mexico was a neighborhOOd
quarrel over lands contiguous to both
of us. The civil war was only a fam
lily jar, though the jar nearly killed the
whole family; but in none of these has
territory been involved that has threat
ened the sovereignty of a foreign pow
er, or have issues been at stake affect
ing the interests of the nations of Eu-
rope. So that this is our first foreign
war.
We have plunged into an unknown
field. Il is therefore well to ask our
selves the question, what will the har-
vest be? We have embarked upon an
uncertain sea, and ii is well to inquire,
''Watchman. what of the night?" Look
ing at the facts in the abstract, it would
seem that the expenditure of 81. 000
per DAY and the spilling of the best
blood of the best nation in the world
for the sake of a handful of Cubans
cannot be justified by reason or judg-
ment; yet if you ask the handful of
Cubans what they think about 1t, they
viii tell you that their freedom is
worth more to them than the whole
United States and everything else In the
world If you were to live by the side
of q man who habituaily beat and
starved his wife and children and they
appealed to you for help, what would
YOU do2 Would You say to them. "Oh
you're only a small family anyway, just
a little handful of fellows, and youl
father is big burly brute. and if
tackle him 1 know l will have trouble
Would that be manly: would that be
neigh '3orly; would it be humane; would
it be riEht2
And then suppose you were to senC
some of your own children to the from
gate of your neighbOr on friendly visi
lust to see what was going on in the
house, and this gentlemanly ruffiaI
were to steal up behind your children