. The literary digest. us fight and have it over is not likely that the entire Spanish navy would be able to dous as much harm in open battle as we suffered in Havana harborin one second of a state of things that was neither peace nor war. The investigation into the injuries of the Maine may take aweek, but the independence of Cuba can be recognized to-day.—The Journal, New York. Time for Cool Heads.—The truth is, we believe, that theattitude of President Cleveland, and of President McKinley afterhim, very faithfully represents the attitude of the people as awhole. Their position has n
. The literary digest. us fight and have it over is not likely that the entire Spanish navy would be able to dous as much harm in open battle as we suffered in Havana harborin one second of a state of things that was neither peace nor war. The investigation into the injuries of the Maine may take aweek, but the independence of Cuba can be recognized to-day.—The Journal, New York. Time for Cool Heads.—The truth is, we believe, that theattitude of President Cleveland, and of President McKinley afterhim, very faithfully represents the attitude of the people as awhole. Their position has not been that we should under nocircumstances interfere, but it has been that interference—or, inother words, war—should be resorted to only when the call for itwas so clear that it became a positive national duty. We do notwant to annex Cuba, and annexation is what interference woulddoubtless come to in the end. The present state of things is bad,monstrously bad, and it may become our duty to put an end to The elephant also ran. w rvx Cm^tMlct.^. DE LOME IN CARTOONS. 244 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [Feb. 26, 1898 But in so doing we shall be doing not what we should like to do,but what, in spite of great aversion, we find ourselves constrainedto do. This was the situation before the Maine disaster, and,while it is possible that that terrible event may change it, it isevident that neither the Administration nor the public is in anyhurry to arrive at that conclusion. There will be plenty of timefor that when the facts are better known ; in the mean time onlylight-heads will imagine that any harm is done to the nationalglory or the national power by keeping our heads cool.—Theyeius, Baltimore. Mr. McKinleymaynot have sufficient backbone even to resentan offense so gross as this, but war in this country is declared bythe Congress, and no explanation of the Spanish Government, nooffer to make reparation, could prevent a declaration of war, eventho it should develop that the S
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