Show WHY we yesterday stated the general proposition that the united states should compel spain to sell to t his country cuba then to take charge of oc the island stop the violence there adjust the conflicting property interests place the island under tinder thorough sanitary regulations educate the people in tile the business of self if governa government ent and with the work completed give the island statehood or absolute independence as the people might desire A friend asks aks us on what pounds me ae can justi justify a proposition of that kind first on the ground oro 0 absolute right rig lit second on the alie score of 0 national safety right because the spaniards make the island merely a place for or plunder in time of 0 peace and it a place of 0 slaughter in time of 0 war there have been fourteen years of war there in till the past twenty nine and fifteen years of spoliation to carry this on to say nothing of 0 the poor people of 0 cuba the mothers of 0 spain have given of 0 their children to die of sickness and wounds or in battle it Is time the barbarities should cease nearly forty years ago this country issued a decree that unless spain would sell the island the interests of thlu country would justify I 1 the taking of it by conquest and that I 1 was before the atrocities of the twelve years beginning in anti and of the past two years but selfishness Is the rule of nations we saw savy great britain a few years since send an arm army Y under the burning sun of africa to storm the fastnesses fast nesses of a savage xing because he had dared to imprison an english citizen of late we have seen tile the german E malie exact a shameful indemnity from poor little haiti because a mulatto who ito claimed to co be a german rub nub jcck had been arld convicted and found guilty of a misdemeanor and had suffered buffered a few days imprisonment we have seen the same name power take by conque conquest at a peninsula of china on the claim that some chinese ruffians had killed two missionaries returning to our own relations with cuba it Is notorious that our government has spent millions of dollars duricr the past two year can in efforts to maintain absolute neutrality between the contestants on oil the island but that Is merely a men money e Y in matter a ater and may be passed over but an eminent physician of new orleans ave avera ra that 80 per cent of the fevers that have hav devastated our southern clelea havo have ind hod their heir origin in tile the filth of havana and have bisen been traced from there to our coast a something which has hag cost those cities more in money than cuba le it worth which tor for tho the lives sacrificed a thousand cubans could males make no restitution tion A country that dos does do s not take care of its ita own people will when a supreme crisis contes lack the people who will defend it after all the principle which should rule in this matter of 0 cuba Is only that of Jus justice ilce tile the questions should be what li Is just to spain 11 ahat to cuba what to oura ourselves cIves mhd an t a are clear give spain fat fair r c mr for her claim upon tho the island give to the cubans the tha rulo rule of 0 the island so sa moon awn as they are competent to assume that I gle rule to our country such direct present interference as aa shall secure our people against nat the pestilence and d our government against atura future menace or anxiety |