| Show THE MAINE REPORT atte ate report of the maine court of in as now given in substance to llam public by the associated press kv no room for doubt that the ship destroyed troyed from the outside the A am Is conclusive on that point question of where the for the unspeakable crime rests ate report to is silent no evidence it jupo W a has been found to justify a con 4 tarton a n as to the identity of the per there is therefore nothing moors 4 report to cau cause se immediate alarm guided in its intercourse bin foreign agn nations by principles of ind and humanity will be perfectly d in exerting itself in the interleaf a peaceful settlement of the in tonal opal questions involved in that te ble ae did disaster aster before appealing to bit tra meux of 0 gunpowder N no 0 one ohe as oat the destructive force was waa 4 off by command of the spanish ament ent or of representatives representatives of government in cuba spain to is in ion n if willing to do so to adis all responsibility and to clear of all suspicion by offering ly and in sincerity such depara JM to Is within her power to give lve for M I 1 of life and property incurred united states on an errand of within spanish domain but Is nue nse of honor keen enough to t such a course ive ve as the situation arising from tte maine incident is the general cuban situation is still graver the of this country now seems to intervention in behalf of the cubans a on the ground of humanity it im deved that congress will formulate ito P policy alicy accordingly whenever the dent shall submit the matter to kowt body intervention in foreign af faira Is strictly speaking not the right of im any country except the right of at the stronger as compared to took t of the weaker it Is not done tet swe accordance ordanie with international law tat rather her independent of it still M are precedents for such a course moat britain prance france and russia as 11 I 1 known ended the sanguinary jale e of the greeks against their in 1827 and established the P pres res greak government gov emment the contest 1 71 had gone on for years until europe sick of the never ceasing bloodshed interfered and ended it russia did not hesitate to interfere in behalf of the bulgarians Bulga rians on the same ground nor england in behalf of the turks when the russians threatened to seize the turkish capital were the spanish people guided by sound judgment they would voluntarily grant such reforms in cuba as would secure for the throne friends and supporters among the inhabitants of the colony it is to be feared however that the prejudices or of the nation are so strong as to compel the madrid authorities to resist thep exertions of our government tor for the establishment of peace and order and then a catastrophe is inevitable undoubtedly peace is more desirable than war but it cannot be thought strange if the united states finds it self under moral obligation to do ir in this hemisphere what european powers repeatedly have done in the old world when EL a race seemed doomed to extermination |
