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Show CUBA'S STAND. The United States will be proud to have Cuba stand beside it in the fight against Germany. Thc same motives of liberty and humanity which inspired us to make war against Spain in the interest in-terest of the Cubans now prompt us to accept the gage of battle aud make war against Germany. President Menocal, iu noble and beautiful beau-tiful words, has asked the Cuban congress con-gress to declare that a state of war ex- ists between Cuba and Germany. Very justly he remarks that if tho neutral nations now submit to the violations of international law- perpetrated by Germany Ger-many they establish a precedent and must submit always to such violations. Only by defeatiug Germany and upholding up-holding the majesty of international j law can any peace worth having be es- tablished aud maintained. German ' domination means only such rules of in-j in-j ternr.tional law as the victor desires to I enforce. j International law is founded on a ! moral code whose basic principles are j held to be eternal established by a 1 Supreme Being. The basis is what is known as right; the opposite is called wrong or injustice. For this changeless standard the Germans would substitute the principle that might makes right, holding that morality is not founded upon any permanent divine laws, but is simply a matter of time and circumstance circum-stance created by the edict of might. ' What is rU'ht today may be wrong tomorrow, to-morrow, as might wills. I Although through tiie ages various li.choots of philosophy have taught dif- f . t)l..,l-ir,lc nf t-v ,.! vl'i- T ous races have followed varying codes. I ' mankind generally has adhered to the J belief that the baaic principles of morality are eternal. The Germans t j have been indoctrinated with the theory i that might makes right and this theory, j rather than any ingrained brutality, ac- j counts for some of those atrocities . which have stunned the world. A false . or fanatical moral theory sometimes can do mure harm in the world than all the brutality the savage mind can. dream of. ! President Menocal has placed himself him-self squarely ou the side of law and or- , der among nations as well as w-ithiu na- i tions. He stands, as we stand, for the law. I |