Show WAR WITH SPAIN JUDGING from the telegraphic reports and the tone of congress this week there is a possibility of a war breaking out at once between the united states and spain over the cuban question the senate and the house have both expressed a decided determination to recognize the cuban patriots as a belli belligerent 11 nation which is in in effect the recognition of their government how the president and his cabinet view the matter is not yet yet publicly made known but it is believed by bv many that the executive part of the government is is in in full sympathy with this noble band of struggling freemen in their efforts to give liberty and independence to the people of the most fertile and prosperous island in in the world it is true war is a horrible remedy for any evil eril but it is is sometimes the only y cure for desperate cases we ve do not fear the result even though spain should get aid and sympathy from other european powers as we would have the advantage of position as well as having right and justice on our side we believe the result would be that the united states would own cuba and the other islands in the group now under spanish dominion which would be of untold advantage to this country then we also believe that such a war would at once necessitate the opening of our mints for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and when once restored would never again be de I 1 as it once was by false pretences pretenses this we honestly believe would br bring ing permanent to the people of this country something n r we shall never again see so long as the single gold standard is maintained let the war come we re shall be able to kill two birds with one stone viz to assist in crus crushing bing a tyrant in spain and deposing a worse tyrant in the united states the gold king of wall street |