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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1898)
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mm mm Feeling that a Conflict with Spain Is Soon to Come MILLIONS M DEF E IE Congress Makes Appropriation of 850000000 for Emergency UNITED STATES IS READY Spirit ol Patriotism Is Universal Among American People rile Administration and All Officials at the National Capital Kealize that the Country Is Pacing a Crisis Con ditions Deemed Such that Hostilities Seem Inevitable Spaniards Have Sought to Cause a Clash and Must Take the Bitter Consequences No Honorable Recourse Save the Ar bitrament of Arms Appears Open Washington correspondence is a general feeling at the TIIEUE that we are face to iCace with a crisis The bill to appropri ate 30000000 for the national defense In evidence that the administration has recognized this in its preparations for an emergency Joseph G Cannon of Illinois chairman of the House Committee on Ap propriations Monday introduced the bill SPANISH PKEMTER SAOASTA appropriating 0000000 for national de fense This bill is as follows Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled That there is f t iS S THE UNITED STATES IS READY when there is an emergency This appro priation is to be drawn against in just such an emergency The bill is not -simply a private bill -it is an administration bill and an emergency measure The situation regarding Cuba has become so delicate that it is recogniz ed that war is inevitable unless Spain is made to understand that this Government is ready for war and will not stop at half way measures The President proposes to be ready for any emergency and if Spain wants war she shall have it- but she will be driven from the western hemisphere She has done enough bluffing Although few persons will openly admit it the feeling in the inner circles of the administration at the time this is written is that tlje country is on the verge of war Conditions are such that an outbreak seems unlikely to be long postponed There is good authority for the statement that Congress will declare Avar against Spain soon after the report of the board of inquiry into the Maine disaster has been made public The change of front on the part of the administration is regarded as significant Mr Melvinley who all along had seemed sovjewhat averse to the ominous move of asking Congress to assist him in making preparations for war has thrown off his indifference and did not hesitate to re quest the emergency appropriation of 5000000 The change in the attitude of Speaker Heed was even more noticea ble than in the case of the President The Speaker had set his face resolutely against every proposed piece of legisla tion which might be construed as intend ed to prepare the country for war Mr Reed had declared that there should be no increase in the standing army and that the bills for 1500 additional seamen and the arming of the auxiliary cruisers should never see the light of day Mon day however Mr Tweed looked and acted very differently Heretofore the President has believed that he could bring the war in Cuba to an end by peaceful means While not entire ly confident that he could secure the peace and independence for the island by such means he hoped at least that he might secure autonomy for Cuba with the prom ise of independence to be accorded the 5 strained situation or a misunderstanding to actual war they argue and this dis tance may never be bridged In fact there are plenty of acute observers of the situation who say Spains apparent policy of aggressiveness is a mere bluff designed for home consumption and that the best possible treatment of it was to refuse the recall of Gen Lee and to refuse to change the plan of sending relief supplies to Cuba by war vessels If it were Spains pur pose to test the firmness of the United States to ascertain whether or not this country was really willing to take its place gun in hand ready to light a duel Spain has her answer Meanwhile too the most energetic prac tical preparations for war continue in this country Ships are being fitted out as rapidly as possible crews are being en listed ammunition is hurried forward the coast defenses are manned transports for troops are boing prepared the State mi litia are ready to jump aboard the cars Not only is the President to have placed in his hands the funds with which to outfit -all our own ships including the merchant vessels subject to our call for transports or auxiliary cruisers but he will be able to close contracts for the purchase of a num ber of foreign battleships and cruisers Moreover it is proposed to let contracts at once for the construction of a large number of small torpedo boats perhaps fifty or a hundred to be built during the next two months on inland rivers and lakes where they will be free from any possible Spanish attack ready to be taken to the seaboard at a moments notice The meaning of all this is simply that the re sources and ingenuity of the American people are brought into play in all their wonderful extent and celerity in prepara tion for the national defense Coupled with the preparations which the Govern ment has been making for mouths past the sum total is most formidable and well calculated to impress Spain or any other possible enemy with the vastness of the task which she must undertake if she starts war upon us The United States is ready for war and at this moment is able to make war with terrible effective ness This Government is not seeking war and is trying to avert war but if it must come to blows we are ready to strike THE NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON IN CRUISING ORDER hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the national defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith to be expended at the discretion of the Presi dent and to remain available until June 30 1S99 50000000 Mr Cannon intr6duced this bill in his individual capacity but it was after a most important conference at the White House attended by Secretary Long Sen ators Allison and Hale and Representa tives Cannon Dingley Boutelle and Gros venor The conference continued for an hour and was regarded as most signifi cant in view of the developments of the day and the reports that the President had given an emphatic refusal to the re quest for the recall of Consul General Lee and another to the request that re lief supplies should be sent to Cuba in merchant rather than in war vessels While Senators and Representatives were speculating as to the meaning of such a conference the answer came from Mr Cannon when he hrtroduced his bill appropriating 50000000 for the national defense There was much excitement in the House but Mr Cannon said he had no intention of adding to the excitement throughout the country The bill speaks for itself said he It is an appropria tion for national fefense and it gives the President discretion in the use of the money I am not certain that we should not always have such an emergency fund But just now with the strained relations between this Government and Spain and the talk of war it is important that the President should leave nothing undone that would strengthen the national de fense He is doing everything but there are some things which cannot be done le gally such as the purchase of ammunition for our navy projectiles for our big coast defense guns toal for our fleet and other things that have to be contracted for Cubans at some date in the future Here tofore all preparations made by the Presi dent have been for defense for he has recognized all along that war might result in spite of all his precautions Since he has looked at the evidence deduced before the board of inquiry he has changed all his plans During the last month a lesson in cool ness and self possession has been well learned If Spain were only able to real ize it the very calmness of the American Government and the American people msW W xc rv vOJav c v r 3 tfN0NCV SPAINS EOT KIXG speaks louder than any noisy vociferation In the presence of a real danger of war for no one denies that a real danger now exists party lines seem obliterated and every branch of the Government and ev ery man who has anything to do with it stands squarely out for the preservation of American honor Though the war cloud darkens it is not believed by some that the storm is likelv to break very soon although it may corned at auy time It is a long was from a J in a way which Spain will never forget But it is a long way yet to war and we may never get there The attitude of the President is that it is not for us to make war but to be prepared for it if it is forc ed upon us There is nothing in the pres ent situation justifying Spain in declaring or provoking hostilities Nothing is- at issue which makes a case on which she dare go before the world as a disturber of the peace The position of this Govern ment is a simple one and should not be misunderstood It is that if war is forced upon us either directly or by provocation we will fight Or in good time we will have a solution of the Cuban problem which has become simply intolerable to this nation even if we have to fight to get it But over such questions as Dupuy de Lome Gen Lee the Maine disaster and the method of forwarding relief sup plies it Ls our purpose to be correct in ac cordance with the practice of nations dig nified and firm neither cringing nor un necessarily provoking One thing now most noticeable among the public men of Washington is that as the danger of war becomes more serious they grow more conservative The events of the last few days pointing more and more to the possibility of Avar through change of policy at Madrid or the accident of friction between people who are grow ing to hate one another have served to level up and level down opinion at the American capital Those who were ultra conservative have become patriotic advo cates of war if necessary to preserve our honor and dignity Those who first fierce ly shouted for blood with or without rea son are now facing the 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