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Show aa I THE WRECK OF THE MAINE. The San Francisco Chronicle says: Provisional Governor Magoon, who Is about to turn over the Government of Cuba to the peoplo of that island aud depart with his soldiers, reports that the wreck of the Maine is causing idioals in an important section of tho harbor of Havana, that the wreck contains con-tains the remains of sixty-three Am-encAn Am-encAn sailors and that tho failure to remove it has become a reproach to our Government and an International scandal. It is alleged that the United States Government does not dare re-wove re-wove it, lest it be found that it was wrecked by an interior explosion, and that the Cuban Government does not remove it lest It be found that the ship was sunk by a torpodo. Meantime Mean-time the remains of the ship obstruct navigation nnd the scandal grows. The wTeck should be removed, whatever what-ever the removal may disclose. It may not be the duty of this country to remove re-move the remains of a vessel sunk in a supposed friendly port and while under the protection of a supposed friendly nation, but the scandal Is such that, if the Cuban Government does not remove it the United States should do so; and the proper thing, under the circumstances, Is for the two governments govern-ments to act jointly. Nobody ever Imagined that the Spanish Government Govern-ment ever knew any more about the catastrophe than our own. A good many have imagined that the wreck was tho work of dastardly Cuban insurgents in-surgents who were willing to slaughter slaugh-ter thoso who were even then almost ready to take up arms in their bohalf in order to bring on a crisis. If such woro the case, there are doubtless those connected with theCuban Government Gov-ernment who know all about It A torpedo tor-pedo capable of working such havoc as was wrought in the Maine could not be constructed, brought into place and discharged by any single or any ordinary miscreant. It is time that the truth about the destruction of the Maine were known. It it were caused by an Internal explosion, explos-ion, it should be demonstrated. And so, If the ship were wrecked by a torpedo, tor-pedo, it can be settled by raising and removing the wreck and no other way. And action ought to be taken at once. |