Show BE SUE OF THE FACTS In four days there will be a change of administrations I looks very much like this fact was being taken advantage advan-tage of to work up another Cuban scare such as the country experienced when the senate foreign relations committee i com-mittee brought in its famous resolution i Just before the holidays No repeti i tion of that excitement is wanted The San Francisco Chronicle commenting I upon the present agitation over the case of Dr Ruiz very conservatively and patriotically says I I must not be forgotten that the past Cuban sensations over which the I I special correspondents and commissioners commis-sioners have sought to arouse the war spirit have turned out to be impositions I I imposi-tions on the public The Insistent statement for example that Maceo I was killed while on his way to a conference con-ference with General Ahumada under I a flag of truce turned out to be a falsehood false-hood which the junta had concocted to I induce this government to intervene and stop the war There was nothing in the early tales of piratical attack I upon American merchant steamers outside the threemile limit The 01 I ney surrender was the romance of a sensationmonger and it is to be suspected I sus-pected that most of the atrocities reported re-ported are those which are Inseparable from the lawlessness of war and are I I not without their parallels in the modern mod-ern mWfrary history of Great Britain and the United States Of course i I the United States government has been outraged in the case of Dr Ruiz its manifest duty is to bring Spain to I terms even at the risk of hostilities I I but that point has not been settled I either by the correspondents or the emotional General Lee Until I has been the jingoes should not be encouraged en-couraged to induce fits To paraphrase Davy Crocketts famous fa-mous saying Be sure of the facts In the case and tteU you are right then go ahead No leap in the dark should be taken I |