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; .iY;vohunjtcm f t.tudnvfl Ol \ MI'M. \\ %\|l. !i;lii\l BfAIV,. 1:.. IMS. Til" Latest. I .■ I it- -1 d.-patch* -, received to day. ini nine." that lie lviropeau I -a. r- el" eg iiti Irving to invent wir betw• i n tie- I nit d Stales and Spain. lie', a-k lli.it lime be given i' ■ Iris _ .!■ it p iii- in Cuba. That i.e '• 01 w li'l laid lie-mine tor destrne t; ' lie M line 1 is 'neen disc . ivered ; licit l! >■ Spanish Mini.-tcr will leave Wa-hingtoii ' "il a- war is declared, ale! that t H0.." ri-illllioll wiil I robahly let conic hi for - the Senate till to-morrow. Time for Action. all tie effort imel" to enlist an ini'-ro-t in - ine means for taking eare •a" and marketing Thurston county p:"din Is, !• ss than fifty people rc -pondi ■! t" tie call for a mass conven tion Saturday afternoon, and they were mo.-tly from the country. When it is taken into account that the weather was decidedly inclement, the farmers deserve credit for coining, some of them many miles at personal discomfort, while our townspeople de serve censure for their apathetic re ception of a proposition that, with unity and zeal, cannot fail of success. The plea that individual business ties a man so closely to his bench or counter that he cannot without loss get out to rustle for more, is illogical and delusive. The idea that other peo ple will willingly carry burdens that all should share is based upon an al together too high conception of earthly philanthropy. The impression which seems to prevail that the object is so meritorious everybixly else will respond and lift the burden from self, is too widespread for the plan to survive such treatment. Too many, unfortu nately, have adopted that plan. Like the donors to the dominie's wine-hut, when each emptied a flagon of vater into it under the impression that all others would deposit wine, and the reverend gentleman found that each having conceived the same idea, he had a cask of sparkling water as a re sult of the benefaction, our people stand back, when nothing is asked but the invigoration of a cheering voice or the magnetism of personal presence to start the project into activity, and rely with the most complaisant confi dence upon the belief that no neighbor will tie so mean as to shirk his share of the labor and responsibility. It is a patent fact that unless some well-directed effort is made to keep the trade we have—to say nothing of ex tending its scope—the time may come when even the few brisk hours 011 Sat urday, which our people show the assi duity of the busy bee to improve, may not continue to be " shining" hours of prosperity. The temper of quite a number of our country jieople, we fear, is expressed in a communication by " A Farmer Fruit Grower," to the daily paper, in which it is broadly hinted that a co-operative (or rather com pany) store may lie the result of fur ther apathy of our business men. While we deprecate retaliatory action in business matters, it will not down at mere bidding, when prejudice is aroused. On the other hand, the attendance of the farming class was not what it should have been, even considering the inclemency of the weather. One of these gentlemen declared that he had obtained no knowledge of the meeting until he came to town, which is not speaking in very Haltering terms of the circulation of Olympia's five news papers; or it may be that the gentle man's ambition to be enlightened by the local press is not of a very high order, and if he is a representative of the rural class (which we do not con cede) that it accounts for the " milk in the cocoanut." Let us hope that the example of a few of our enterprising citizens in sub scribing to the capital stock of the en terprise, Saturday, may awaken a spirit that will carry the project 011 to a successful result. WORDS THAT MISLEAD.—The Olym pian says it was " unfair to Olympia" that Mahara's minstrels-came by spe cial boat and left the same way, with out leaving as much as " the price of a bed" in town. The fact is—and Oly knew it—that the company missed the morning train at Tacoma and went to the extra expense of chartering a special steamer only as an alternative for keeping their contract. While it may be true that the company did not leave " the price of a bed" in town, it left the price of quite a number of meals, and the cost of some other creature comforts while here. They certainly left more money here than they took away, and probably would not have played more than " even" had the company arrived on time, as the per formance occurred 011 Good Friday ( when many theater goers are giving their chief attention to sacred obliga tions. Oly's eaptiousness is, however, easily explained, and is the result of another " failure to connect" from a multiplicity of duties occurring 011 the " busy day" of the week. A NEW element that has arisen in Spain to complicate matters and re sult in much embarrassment is an uprising at Valencia, in which the populace carried a red flag and sang the Marseillaise Hymn. With dis seution at home and Cuba to conquer. Spain will soon find that she has more •eggs to hatch than she can conven iently cover. SPAIN has ordered her Minister at Washington, I'olo, to return home which is the usual prelude to war by civilized nations. The Disaster at Chiieoot. It ' Hi- that I" ate ha- ea-t some po ll nt -p. il ..\er the land of 0..!, i t.> the north of 11.. whereby its wonderful \ ield of th. precious metal must be at tended by a corn -ponding degree of siilfcring and sorrow. It seems that the portal- of wealth in the hidden re ee-ses .f the hlcak northland. are guarded l.y giiomi - armed vvitli Na ture's powi 1- of 11 pill-ion, and tliat many and nu xplieable ale tin- means that spiing up to impede man'- prog cress. The disaster at Chiieoot pass, to which our correspondent McKeynolds incidentally refers, was of a much greater magnitude than was supposed at his date of writing, the lid inst. Ac counts from Sheep Camp, two days later, give some account of the origin of the casualty hv which certainly 57 lives were sacrificed, with a prospect that the number will he increased, as the track is cleared and the victimsare brought to light. The great slide occurred on Sunday, tin- lid inst. For three days previous to that event, a raging snow storm had prevailed between Sheep Camp and the summit, and by Sunday morn ing several feet of fresh snow had fallen on the hcavily-incriistcd mountain side, leaving those who had encaini>cd 011 the trail in imminent but unsus pected danger. From 150 to liOO were known to be encamped within the track of the avalanche. Sunday morning a small slide came down from the mountain crushing several tents. This caused some anx iety and it was resolved to abandon tlie camps along the treacherous path way. A correspondent thus graphi cally describes the scene: A hundred or more people grasped the life-line and began the decent, but scarcely bail the string of struggling humanity reached the center of the largest bill between the Stone llouse and the Scales when without a warning sound the mountain of new fallen snow caine down, completely swallowing them up. A few on the upper end of the line escaped the white, cruel shroud of death and gave the alarm as soon as jiossible. l»ct a blinding snowstorm be ing in progress it took some time to reach Sheep Camp. When the plaee was notilied, however, an army of 300 men with shovels faced the storm and hurried to the rescue, lly 3 o'clock some had been recovered alive and by night time seventeen dead nodies had been taken out. Yesterday the work was resumed and the day's work brought forth nineteen more who had lost their lives in the effort to reach the land of gold. The steamer Cottage City, which ar rived from Juneau on the lltli brings advices to the 7tli. It says that 57 bodies had been recovered and 100 per sons were known to be missing. The killed number 14 from Seattle, 0 from Tacoma, 0 from Portland, 5 from San Francisco, and the remainder from destinations mostly east of the Rocky mountains. IT is ;I mutter of surprise that the edi tor of the STANDARD, who is also mana ger of Olympia Theater, sliould rebuke Frederick Warde, tiie great actor, for tlie rebuke lie administered last Satur day evening from the stage to the gallery gods who would not keep still while the performance was in progress.— Olympian. The " surprise," lie it said, is all on Oly's part. A rebuke is in order when ever deserved, and the STANDARD has the lairncss to express its opinion of the mighty just as it docs of the weak; of the exalted ns it does of those who have never succeeded in climbing many of the rounds of life's step lad der. Notwithstanding our contempor ary says that the noise in the gallery was " pronounced," we find many pres sent on that occasion who say they failed to hear it. Now one word for the special en lightenment of the editor of the Olym pian. Had he possessed even a tithe of the experience of the writer, on dra mntic matters, he would know that many eminent actors arc just as cranky as leading men in other voca tions of life. Some delight in posing in one attitude and some in another. Mr. Warde, while a splendid actor and genial gentleman, is one of these, and little Oly didn't drop on the fact that the interruption in " Virginius" may have been the finesse of artistic side play, which, like the discord in music, is introduced only by experts to to at iunc the ear a fuller appreciation of the grand harmony to follow. Nor is it it true that the " noise in the gallery" is peculiar to Olympia Theater, as one would infer from the Olympian's comments. It is the same at the Baldwin, in San Francisco, at the Marquam, in Portland, and in the Seattle and Tacoma theaters. It is the same in leading theaters in New York and Chicago. In fact the " treadmill step," which prevails in the gallery of nearly every theater in the land, has seldom been heard here and the gallery gods arc as well-behaved here as anywhere else. MOODY CONVICTED.—The case of L. E. Moody, commonly known as " Doe" Moody, terminated at Montesano, this week, in the conviction of defendant, of murder in the second degree and his sentence to twenty years of hard labor in the State penitentiary. He was indicted for the killing of E. May Bonn, at Elma, July 27,1890, a daugh ter of J. B. Forties, of Kamilche. The prosecution was conducted by R. L. Abel, the Prosecuting Attorney of that district, assisted by George Israel, of this city; the defense by George B. Scofield. The ground of defense was insanity, and it was shown that de fendant was at times subject to erratic impulses, which doubtless mitigated the degree of punishment from that which would have followed conviction in accordance with the indictment. LITTLE Alphonso who has doffed his Itoy's clothes and is now addressed by the Spanish officials ns "Your majesty," the 12 year old king having assumed the legal title according to staid Gastilian law. 80 in case of war, the fun will between Uncle Bani and His majesty. DELAYED MESSAGE. !•iiKlri f: 'III fir." j-rrtr.- i have greatly aided tin- charitable I work. The President of the American Red j Cross and representatives nf oilier c»ui- Irilnilory nrganiz.at ions have generally visjted Cuha ami co-operated with the ; Counsel (ieneral and the loenl au ! tliorities to make effective distrihution |of the relief eolleeted through the i efforts of the central committee. | Nearly in money ami supplies ! have already reached the sutlerers and | more is forthcoming. The supplies I are admitted duty free and transpor { tation to th(> interior has heen arranged, so that the relief, at first necessarily 1 confined to Havana and the larger | cities, is now extended to most if not all of the tow ns where suffering exists. Thousands of lives have already been saved. EXTEIfMIXAI loX I'ltotlAltl.K. The necessity of relieving the eondi-. tion of the recoucentrados is recognized by the Spanish government. Within a few days past the orders of (leneral Weyler have heen revoked, the recou centrados are, it is said, to be permit ted to return to their homes and aided to resume the self-supporting pursuits of peace; public works have been start ed to give them employment and a sum of iffitMl.OOO has been appropriated for their relief. The war in Cuba is of such a nature that, short of subjugation or extermin ation, a final military victory for either side seemed impracticable. The alter native lies in the physical exhaustion of the one or the other party, or |>er haps both, a condition which in effect ended the ten years' war by the truce of/an Jon. The prosjiect of such a protraction and conclusion of the present strife is a contingency hardly to be contem plated with equanimity hv the civilized world, and least of all by the United States, affected and injured as we are deeply and intimately by its very ex istence. Si'AIN IS WAHNKI). Realizing this, it appeared to lie my duty, in a spirit ol true friendliness, no less to Spain than the Cubans, who have so much to lose by the prolonga tion of the struggle, to seek to bring about an immediate termination of the war. To this end 1 submitted, 011 the 27th ultimo, as a result of much representation and corres|H>ndcncc tlnoiigh the United States minister at Madrid, propositions to the Spanish government looking to an armistice until October 1, for the negotiation of j>eaee with the good offices of the Pres ident. In addition I asked the revocation of tlie order of reconcentration, so as to permit the people to return to their farms and the needy to lie relieved with provisions and supplies, in the United States co-operating with the Spanish authorities so as to afford full relief. The reply of the Spanish cabinet was received 011 the night of the 31st ultimo. It offered as a means to bring about peace to confide th*' preparation thereof to the insular department, inasmuch as the concurrence of that body would be necessary to establish a final result, without licing, however, understood that the powers conferred by the constitution to the central gov ernment arc lessened or diminished. As the Cuban parliament does not meet until the -Ith of May next, the Spanish government would not ob ject, for its part, to accept at once a suspension of hostilities if asked for by tbe insurgents from the Gencral-in- Chief, to whom it would pertain to determine the duration and conditions of the armistice. The propositions submitted by (iencrul Woodford and the reply of the Spanish government were in the form of brief memoranda before mentioned, and substantially in the language above given. The func tion of the Cuban parliament in the matter of " preparing" peace and the manner of doing so are not explained in the Spanish memorandum, but from General Woodford's explanatory re jiorts of preliminary discussions pre ceding the final conference it is under stood that the Spanish government stands ready to give the insular con gress full power to settle the terms of peace with the insurgents, whether by direct negotiation or indirectly by means of legislation, does not appear. INTERVENTION OK RECOGNITION. With this last overture in the direc tion of immediate jieace and its disap pointing reception by Spain, the exec utive was brought to the end of his effort. In my annual message of De cember last, I said: "Of the untried measures there remain—Recognition of the insurgents as belligerents; rec ognition of the independence of Cuba and intervention to end the war by imposing a rational compromise be tween the contestants, and interven tion in favor of one or the other party. I speak not of forcible annexation, for chat cannot be thought of; more, by our code of morality, it would be criminal aggression." Thereupon I reviewed these alterna tives in the light of President Grant's measure in the words uttered in 1875, in which, after seven years of sanguin ary'destructive and cruel barbarities in Cuba, he reached the conclusion that the recognition of the independ ence of Cuba was impracticable and indefensible, and that the recognition of the belligerency was not warranted by the facts according to the texts of public law. I commented upon the phase of the question, pointing out the inconveniences and positive dangers of recognition of belligerency, which, while adding to the already onerous burdens of neutrality within our juris diction, could not in any way extend our influence or effective ofliees in the territory of hostilities. Nothing has since occurred to change my views in this regard, and I recognize ns fully now as then that the issuance of a proclamation of neutrality by which procedure the recognition of belliger ency is published, could, of itself, and unattended by other action, accom plish nothing toward the one end for which we labor—the instant pacifica tion of Cuba, and the abandonment of the evils that inflict the island. I'UEOKDENT SET BY JACKSON. Turning to the question of recog nizing at this time the independence of the present insurgent government in Cuba, we find safe precedents in our history from an early day. They are well summed up. In President Jack son's message to congress, December 21,183<>, on the subject of recognition of the independence of Texas, he said: "In all the contests that have arisen out of the revolution of France, out of the disputes relating to Portugal and Spain, out of the separation of the Ameri can possessions of both from the Euro pean governments and numerous and constantly occurring struggles for do minion in Spanish-America, so wisely consistent with just principles has beeii the action of out government that we have, under the most critical conditions, avoided all censure, and no other evil has arisen than that produced by a t;re i st>angementof I will ill , those ag:iin»t wbom wh have been 1 » v !..?cv- <>l « vents compelled t<» decide. Il , has thus been in nil' known to tliu worl'l thai tin' uniloim policy of lli(> United Stilton is to avoid a'.l interference in dis joins whii'li incrt-ly relate to tin- internal ■government ol other nations ami event naily to reeogniz* tlui autliority of tin* i prevailing party without reference lo our ! particular interests ami views, or to the 1 merits of the organic controversy; hut in i this, as in every oilier occasion, safety is to lie fouiiil in a rigid ailherenee to ! |irinei|iles. In the eontest tietween Spain alnt the revolting e ilouies we stood aloof ami waited not only until the | ability of tlie new States to protect them 'selves was fully established, hut until prospects ol their being a " till subjugated had entirely passed aw iv. Then, ami not until then, were they recognized. I Such wus our course in regard to Mexico : herself, li is true that Willi regard to ' Texas the civil authorities of Mexico had | been expelled, its invading ariuv do i feated, the chief of the repuiilie himself ! captured ami its present power to con | trol the newly organized government of Texas annihilated within its confines. ! lhit. on the other iiaqik there was, in ap pearance, at least, an immense disparity of physical force on the side of Texas. The Mexican republic, under an ally, was yidliering its forces under a new leader and menacing a fresh invasion to recover its lost domain. Upon the issue of this threatened invasion the inds pendeuee of Texas may lie considered as suspended, ami were there nothing peculiar in the situation of the United States ami Texas our acknowledgment of its independence at sueli a crisis could scarcely he iegarded as consistent with that prudent reserve with which we have hitherto held ourselves bound to treat all similar questions." MUST BE A STATE I)E FACTO. Thereupon Andrew Jackson pro ceeded to consider the risk that there ; might be imputed to the United I States' motives of selfish interest, in | view of the former claim on our part to the territory of Texas and of the vowed purpose of the Texans in seek ing recognition as an incident to the incorporation of Texas in the Union, concluding thus: " Prudence, therefore. seems to dictate that we should stand aloof ami maintain our present alii ude, if not until Mexico itself or one of the great powers shall recognize the independence of the now government at least until the lapse of time or the course of events shall have proved beyond cavil or dispute the ability of the people of that country to maintain their separate sovereignty aiul to uphold the government constituted by them. Neither of the contending parties can justly complain ot this course. Ily pur suing it, we are lint carrying out the long established policy ot our government, a policy which has secured to us respect ami influence abroad and inspired con tidence at home." These arc the words of Andrew Jackson. They are evidence that the United States, in addition to the test imposed by public law as the condi tion of the recognition of a new State, to-wit: That the revolted state shall "constitute in fact a body politic, hav ing a government in substance as well as in name, possessed of the elements of stability," and forming de facto, "If left to itself, a state among the na tions, reasonably capable of discharg ing the duties of a State," has imposed for its own guidance in dealing with cases like this the further case of recognition of statehood not due to a revolted dependency until the danger of its being again subjugated by the parent state has entirely passed away. This extreme tost was in fact applied in the case of Texas. The Congress to whom President Jackson sent the message, one probably leading to war and therefore a proposition for a " previous understanding with that body, by whom war can alone lie de clared, and by whom all the provis ions for sustaining its perils must be furnished, left the matter of the recognition of Texas to the discretion of the executive, providing merely for the sending of a diplomatic agent when the President was satisfied that the republic of Texas bad become an iude|iendent State." It was so recognized by President Van Burcn, who commissioned a charge d'affaires, March 7, 1837, after Mexico had abandoned an attempt to conquer the Texas territory, and there was at the time no contest going on between the insurgents of the province and its former sovereign. CL'HA NOT YET INDEPENDENT. I said in my message of December last: "It is to be seriously considered whether the Cuban insurrection possesses tieyond dispute the attriliuteH or stato hood, which alone can demand the recognition of lielligerency in its favor." The same requirement must cer tainly be no less seriously considered when the graver issue ol recognizing independence is in question, for a no less positive test can lie applied to the greater net than to the lesser, while, on the other hand, the confidence ami consequences of the struggle upon the internal policy of the recognizing State, which form important factors when the recognition of belligerency is concerned, are secondary, if not rightly elimitable, factors when the real question is whether the com munity claiming recognition is or is not independent beyond |teradventure. Nor from the standpoint of ex pedience do I think it would be wise or prudent for this government to recognize at the present time the in dependence of the so-called Cuban re public. Such rccognization is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the island. To commit this country now to the recognition of any par ticular government in Cuba might subject us to embarrassing couditions of international obligations toward the organization so recognized. In case of intervention, our conduct will be subject to the approval or disapproval of such government. We would be required to submit to its direction and to assume to it the mere relation of a friendly ally. When it shall appear thereafter that there is within the island a government capable of per forming the duties and discharging the functions of a nation and having, as a matter of fact, the proper forms and attributes of nationality, such govern ment can be promptly and readily recognized and the relations anil interests of the United States with such nation adjusted. INTERVENTION A NECESSITY. There remains the alternative forms of intervention to end the war, either by impartial neutrality, by imposing a rational compromise between the con testants, or as the active ally of one party or the other. As to the present CASCf it is not to be forgotten that dur ing the la«t few months the relation of the United States has virtually been one of friendly intervention in many ways, each not of itself conclusive but all tending to the exertion of a potential influence towards an ultimate pacific result, just and honest to all interests concerned. The spirit of all our acts hitherto has been an earnest, unselfish desire for peace and prosperity in Cuba, untarnished by differences between the United States and Spain, and unstained by the blood of Ameri can citizens. The forcible interven tion of the United States as a neutral power to stop the war according to the dictates of humanity and by the fol lowing historical precedents where there lias been interference to check the hopeless sacrifice of life by inter nal conflicts beyond a country's borders, is justifiable on national grounds. It involves, however, hostile constraint upon hoth parties to the contest, as well to enforce a truce as to guide the eventual settlement. The grounds for such intervention may be brielly summarized as follows: First—ln the cause of humanity land to put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed, starvation and horrible miseries now existing there, and which the parties to the conllict arc each tin- I aide or unwilling to stupor mitigate. It is no answer to say this is all in an i other country, belonging to another 1 nation, and is therefore none of our business. It is expressly o.tr duty, for it is right at our door. Second—We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no government there can or will alhird, and to that end terminate the j conditions that deprive them of legal protection. Third —The right to intervene may : be justified by the very serious injury to commerce, the business of our peo ple, and by the wanton destruction of | property and devastation of the island. Fourth, and most important—The j present condition of affairs in Cuba is i a constant menace to our peace, and entails upon this government enormous expense. With such a conflict waged for years in an island so near to us and which our |ieoplc have such trade and business relations, where the lives and liberty of our citizens arc in constant menace, endangering our peace, their | property destroyed and they them selves ruined; when our trading vessels 'are liable to seizure at our very door hv warships of a foreign nation; the ex peditions of filibustering that we are powerless to prevent altogether and the irritating questions and entangle ments thus arising till these and others are a constant menace to our |K>ace, and compel us to keep on a semi-war footing with that nation with which we arc at peace. DESTBUCTION OK THE MAINE. These clemcuts of danger and dis order already pointed out have been strikingly illustrated by a tragic event which lias deeply and justly moved the American people. I have trans mitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruc tion of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the 15th of February. The destruc tion of that noble vessel lias filled the national heart witli inexpressible horror. Two hundred and sixty-six brave sailors and marines and two oflicers of our navy reposing in the fancied security of a friendly liar l>or have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation. The naval court of inquiry which, it is needless to say, commands the un qualified confidence of the government, was unanimous ill its conclusion that the destruction of the Maine was caused by an exterior explosion, that of a submarine mine. It did not as sume to place the responsibility. That remains to be fixed. In any event, the destruction of the Maine, by whatever exterior cause, is patent and impressive proof of a state of things in Cuba that is intolerable. That condition is thus shown to be such that the Spanish government cannot assure safety and security to a vessel of the American navy in the harbor of Havana on a mission of peace and rightfully there. Further referring in this connection to recent diplomatic correspondence, a dispatch from our minister to Spain of the 2fitli ult., contained the state ment that the Spanish minister for foreign affairs assured him positively that the Spanish will do all that the highest honor and justice required in the matter of the Maine. The reply above referred to of the 31st ult., also contained an expression of the readi ness of Spain to submit to arbitration of all the differences which can arise in this matter which is subsequently ex plained by the note of the Spanish minister at Washington of the 10th inst., as follows: " As the question of fact which springs from the diversified views of the Ameri can and the Spanish boards. Spain tnC poses that tho fact lie ascertained by an impartial investigation tiy experts, which decision Spain accepted in advance." To this I have made no reply. GRANT FORESAW THE END. President Grant, in 1875, in dis cussing the purposes of the contest as it then appeared and its hopelessness and apparent indefinite prolongation, said: "In such event, I am of the opinion that other nations will be compelled to asiunio the responsibility which dovolyes upon them and to seriously consider the only remaining measures possible, media tion and intervention. Owing, perhaps, to the large expanse of water se|iaraliiig the inland from the peninsula, the con tending iiarties appear to have within themselves no de|Kisitory of common confidence to suggest wisdom when passion and excitement have their sway, and thus assume the part of a peace maker." Iu this view, in the early days of the contest, tho good otlices of the United States as meditator were tendered in good faith, without any selfish purpose, in the interest of humnnity and sincere friendship for both parties, but were at the time de clined by Spain, with the declaration, nevertheless, that at a future time they would be indispensable. No in timation tins been received that iu the opinion of Spain that time has been reached, yet the strife continues with all its dread horrors and its injuries to the United States and other nations. Each party seems quite capable of working great injury and damage tho other, as well as to all the relations and interests dependent on the ex istence of peace in the island; but they seem incapable of reaching any adjustment and both have thus far failed of achieving any success where by one party shall possess and con trol the island to the exclusion ot the other. Under the circumstances, the agency of others, either by mediation or by intervention, seems to be the only alternative which must sooner or later be involved for the termination of the strife. In the last annual mes sage of my immediate predecessor, during the pending struggle, it was said: " When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has liecome manifest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful action, and when a people's struggle for its re-ental>- lishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more thai: the utter destruction of the very subject matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligations to tho sovereignty of Spain will be sufterseded by higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognise and dis charge." NEED OK FURTHER ACTION. In my annual message in December last, speaking on this question, I said : "The near future will demonstrate whether the indispensable condition of a righteous peace, just alike to the Cubans and to Spain, as Wul I us equitable to all our interests, so intimately involved in the welfare of Cuba, is likely to lie at tained. II not, tlio exigency of further and other action by the United States will remain to bo taken; when that time co nies action wili be determined in the line of uudispuiable right and duty; it will tie faced without misgiviugor hesitancy in the tight of the obligaiion this govern ment ows to itself, to tin people who confided the protection of their interests ami honoi ami to humanity; sure of the right, keeping free front all oll'ense our selves, actuated by upright and patriotic | consideration; moved neither by passion ; nor selfishness, the government will con ( timie its watehtul care over the rights and property of American citizens and will . abate none of the efforts to bring about i by peaceful agencies a (>eace which shall be honorable and enduring. It it shall hereafter apjiear to be a duty imposed by our obligations to ourselves, to eiviliza , lion and to humanity to intervene witli ! force, it shall be without fault on our part and onlv because, the necessity for such i action will hi so clear as 11 co nm md the ! support and approval of tho civilized I world." The long trial has proved that the object for which Spain has waged war cannot be attained. Tne tire of insurrection may llame or may smolder with varying seasons, hut it has not been, and it is plain that it cannot he* extinguished by present methods. The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which cannot longer he endured is the enforced pacification of Uuta. CUBAN WAK MUST BE STOPPED. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of en dangered American in It rests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop, in view of these facts and these con siderations I ask the Congress to an thorize and empower the ITesid nt to take measures lo secure a full temina tion of hostilities between the govern eminent and the people of Cuba and to secure in the island the establish ment of a s'ahle government capabie of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquillity and the se curity of its citizens, as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces of the United H'ates, as may he necessary for these purposes; and in the interest of hunt mity, and to aid in preserving the lives of the starving people of tho island, I recommend that the distribution of food and sup plies be continued, and that an ap propriation he mAtle out of the public treasury to supplement the charily of our citizens. The issue is now with Congress. It is a solemn responsibility. I have ex hausted every effort to relieve the intolerable condition of affairs which is at our doors. Prepared to exeute every obligation imposed upon nte by the conslilutiou and the law.-, I await your action. Yesterday, and since the prepara tion of the foregoing message, official information was received that the latest decree of the queen regent of Spain directs Gen. Blanco, in order to prepare and facilitate peace, to pro claim a suspension of hostilities, the duration and details of which have not yet been commuuicated to me. This fact, with every other pertinent con sideration, will, I am sure, have your careful and just attention in the solemn deliberations upon which you are about to enter. If this measure attains a successful result, then our aspirations as a Christian, peace-lov ing people will he realized ; if it fails, it be only another justification of our contemplated action. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. Executive Mansion, Washington, April 11, 189 S. THK STANDARD has always said and often claimed that Republicans take to office-holding like a cat takes to lap ping milk, and that as a natural se quence few die and none resign after admission to a fat stall at the public crib. But we have been mistaken, of their nature has undergone a radical change; for we now find not one, but three instances disproving this hith erto well astablished characteristic. It will lie remembered that Clias. B. Hop kins set this example of self-abnegation by resigning the office of Postmaster at Spokane. That did not create much surprise, however, for Charley is an odd genius to begin with and had his hands full in attending to his private interests. Now comes Oliver Hall, who refuses to accept the postoftice at Colfax, which pays 12,000 a year, and I). T. Ham, of Latah, with a declina tion of the ])osition of Receiver of the General Land Office at Spokane, with a ¥3,100 salary attached to it. The Commoner, in commenting upon this unusual spectacle, declares that it is an evidence there are a few patriots in the country who are not Populists. IT matters not if other Congressmen lie in doubt as to the proper course to pursue in the present trying ordeal for our nation, ours will certainly be re lieved of much perturbation by the sage counsels wired them by several of the faithful in the State building, this week. The instructions,as reported by Oly, are the assurance that " Our peo ple urge the recognition of the Cuban Republic: no recognition, no interven tion. Stand by Democratic resolution against bondholders' intervention." \\ bother any of our Congressmen needed a stiffening of the backbone, or not, is immaterial, although the send ing of this dispatch would seem to im ply such necessity. Anyway, as Peck's bad boy would say, under like circum stances, " That settles it." When the commonwealth speaks, its servants must obey, GI'ILTY OF CONTKMIT. —TugwcII and Baker, editors of the Tacoma Sun, an organ of Populism published at Taco ma, have been adjudged guilty of con tempt by the Supreme Court of the State, in publishing defamatory criti cisms of that body, and fined ¥3OO each, or imprisonment in the county for 100 days if the fine is not paid in standard dollars. The main peiut of defense was want of jurisdiction but it was overruled. The gentlemen who wielded the libelous " Fabers" will now have to put up or be shut up. TUB lower branch of Congress has adopted tlie following resolution: Ht«olce<l, Thae the President is hereby authorised and directed to intervene at once to stop the war in Cuba, to the end and witli the pur|Hise of securing |>eriiia nent peace and order there, and estab lishing by free action of the people there of a stable and independent government of their own in ttie island of Cuba; ami the President is hereby authorised and empowered to use the land and naval fortes of the United .States to execute the purpose of this resolution." There wore only 20 votes against the proposition. IIKI'KKSBN I A'l IVK Lewis signifies his intention of enlisting for the war against Spain. PT ji see ftinmnn.iim IB CASTO RIA |™L THE Vegetable Preparation for As- fl] SIGNATURE slmilating the Food andßcgula- fl the Stomachs andDowelsof IB —OF Eromotesßigestion,Cheerful ness and Rest.Con tains neither B Opmm.Morphine nor MjneraL fl TQ oivr MM* NOTNAHCOTIC. 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