Show y V OF RECALLS SINKING OF MAINE V Back Dack In the years when Europe Eurove did not have a high bleh opinion ot of Americans as lighters the battle battle- battleship ship hip Maine entered Havana har bar harbor ho bor That was 1898 1 9 prior to that time a strong sentiment bad had de do- de- de developed developed eloped In i the United States In favor of ot Intervention In the war between Cuba and Spain The Maine had been not been at t an- an anchor an anchor chor long lom when a tremendous ex cx- cx explosion occurred and a big bit per per- percentage of ot the th men on the tho ship shil w were were we're re killed Admiral Wainwright who died tiled last week was S executive officer In command It 11 was Will the th blowing blo up P ot of the Maine that caused America to go goto goto soto to war The Th charge charco was made mad at atthe atthe atthe the time Ume mb that the ship had been destroyed by the th Spaniards and an investigation pointed to the fact that there ther was much to In- In In Indicate dicato the blow bow came from with with- without without out and not within the ship It ays al has been a 8 question ot of doubt In well wen Informed circles as asto asto asto to whether the tb disaster was the plot result of at o a plot or came from rom In Internal explosion which was purely accidental tal However the Americans were aroused to a high bleh pitch and the demand for tor V war became so 50 strong that President McKinley who had been slow sOW to move moe was forced by public sentiment to sanction vigorous action It has haa been charged chirred that the th war was s-as brought on by a 8 a group newspapers Inflaming the th pub public ot n newspapers V lic mind Regardless of at o the th causes primar causes causes the war nerved a i good rood pur pur- pur It Il ended the strife of at a 8 century in Cuba Cubit sent Spain back across the Atlantic with Its Hs mis misfits fits lIs In government and paved the way for a republic In the th largo large Island off orf the tip of ot Florida America has had no no no r regrets grets for having made possible the enc ence of o Cuba and the release of othe the Ih Philippines from the yoke oke ot of Spain although a vexatious sit sit- situation nation has been reached In trying to find lind what to do with the Islands In the Pacific The Spanish Amer ican war took America out ot of Its Hs aloofness s In world affairs affair and broadened our outlook V V V V |