The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-04-25

n self-interest can knaw at principle to Its
y injury. The remarks Of the 'Sprinfeld
e Republican on this question can be
= profitably read and they are herewith
: given:
s The action OF the Democrats of the
e senate in making no Sight against the
e Plats amendment called from The Re
e publican some earnest, even indignant,
r remarks concerning the, demoralized
opposition's representatives, in congress.
= The lapse of time since-coDgress adj
: journed has not modified the views then
expressed. The course o. certain pro-
2 minent Democratic and Southern sena-
: tors the past few weeks. Indicates, even
{ more strongly than had appeared before,
r that in the Democratic party as well as
in the Republican party the moral i'm.
pulse to fulfill to nations pledge re-
garding Cuba was pitifully weak. Both
J the Missouri senators, Vest and. Cock
rell, have lately displayed warm SYM
pathy with the policy of'making Cuba
an insular annex, under the form of
suzerainty, to this country IMr. Vest
has expressed his feelings.in newspaper
interviews, while Mr.. Cockrell has been
Senator Proctor bosom friend in trip
to Cuba. ana in all of his utterances
while on the island he has extolled the
Platt amendment. He saw the presi-
dent at Washington Wednesday, and
comforted him with the opinion that the
Cubans sooner or later would'be induced
to accept the conditions which congress
has laid down.
The Missouri senators doubtless rep
resent the feelings OF the bulk of the
Southerners. Southern traditions point
to the acquisition of Cuba. The in
centive to acquire it now is not, of
course, what it was in the days when
the South was constantly seeking more
slaYe territory Had the South emer
ged victorious from the civil war, it is
as certain as any contingent event could
be that the aggressive Confederacy
would have seized Cuba,s even at the
expense of a wer with Spain, before
the emancipation of the sa..slaves took
place on the island. And the seizure
would have been made withsvery little
sanctimomous pretense J While the
abolition of American slavery modified
greatly the South interest in Cuba, the
strong incubation Of the poison of the
Ostend manifesto still runs to some ex-
tent in Southern veins When people
acquire the habit of looking upon some
thing rs destined to be in their posses
sion it is no easy matter to throw it off
There are in the South today n few
newspapers like the Columbiau(S. c.
State which occupy high moral ground
on the Cuban question, and denounce
the Reputation of the nations pledge,
but it must be admitted by any one
who examines southern press comment
that FOR the most part the papers of that
section view the present procedure with
| OUT ~ SlUSlt Hitttl l'ihiii
by his Cuban policy President Nc
Kinley is probably making Republican
ism. "a it has been developed during his
administration, more popular among
certain CLASSES in thesSouth than it has
been before. 1t is a policy that the
Cockrells, Vests, Joneses, Morgans and
Wattersons secretly warm to in their
hearts. 1t is fragrant wifi of the
spirit of Pierre Soule, hypocritically
vestured with the tradition Of Giddings
and Summer and Lincoln. L1They say
that white mans Republican party is
growing up in the South. The other
day the president appointed as district
attorney for South Carolina a Gold
Democrat, who supported him in 1896
and 1900, and this official in alliance
with Senator McLaurin, is expected to
effect n new Republican Organization
and draw to it much of that class of
whites who at heart sympathlze with
Republican policies in matterssof tariff,
finance, subsidies and territorial expan
sion. Now is an excellent tine to in
augurate such an assault upon the
solid South when the negro in politics
has become entirely friendless and the
Democracy presents such a spectacle
of decentralization and division through
out the land
Before the last presidential election,
The Republican declared that if MIR.
Mckinley were reelected and the cause
of anti-imperialism suffered severe
blow at the polls, i. would be much
more difficult in the future to hold the
South in line with the opposition to the
imperialist policy. The drift of events
is already justifying that forecast. There
has been strong imperialist sentiment
in the South, which nothing but Bry-
ans election could have kept in repres-