| Show UP HIE MAINE the san francisco chronicle expresses regret over the fact hat the spanish treaty claims commission in acting on alie maine claims nad not the jurisdiction is to investigate the blowing up of the battleship in havana harbor and fix the responsibility the chronicle says it is true that we once went through a form a inquiry regarding matter but it was an investigation conducted while passion was running nigh spain disclaimed ahe responsibility emphatically and there are many people in the republic who do not believe mat she was responsible that country has never had a fair y to make a defense if instead of the trial ot the mere question of responsibility for damages which the commission was empowered to consider the matter nad been referred to try on ane broader of responsibility for the explosion on which the claim for damages was based spain would nave had a chance to appear in the case an evidence 01 her innocence the awful charge of which many think is unjustly resting now against her that matter could be safely inquired into now in cold blood end with strict impartiality impartial ily for the war is over anu the angry passions which it excited have long Bince died out it would be a severe refection on the impetuosity and marked prejudice of the american should a court after thorough investigation decide that pain was not responsible for the destruction of the maine still it would not mean tha 1 war had been fought without cause on our part when the maine entered the liardon of havana the american people were fiercely opposed to ahoy had read of him aa a hellhound hell hound torturing wo men and children by forcing them in to campa where starvation was their fate was looked upon as a demon for the blood of cuba and in the popular mind ethod for fc domination and cruelty the american people wanted but the excuse to intervene in behalf of humanity and the destruction st of the maine fired acm to a feeling 01 tull justification and even a desire for revenge there would have been or at least intercession ter cession had the maine steamed home without injury but war mighty have been averted for spain feared the outcome of a clash of arms with this nation |
