Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — IT WILL NOT DOWN. [ARTICLE]

IT WILL NOT DOWN.

Senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin, Saya the Maine Episode Was a Plain Case of Treachery. Washington, April s.—Senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin, who is one of the most conservative men in the senate and has never advocated intervention in any way until since the receipt of the report of the Maine disaster, received a letter from Paul D. Carpenter, of Milwaukee, l Wis., a son of the late Senator Matt , Carpenter, in which an argument tor peace is made and in which the report of the Spanish court of inquiry is cited r.B grounds for not accepting as conclusive the finding of our own court that the Maine was destroyed by an external explosion. To this letter Senator Mitchell replied: "I have never favored armed interference In Cuban affairs. I did not feel that we were bound to redress the wrongs of Cuba by resorting to war. But the Maine episode will not down. Over-refinement at argument is useless. It stands before the American people a plain case of treachery. Perfidy and cruelty run in the Spanish blood. There is little else in its history. Any nation that would permit such an outrage to go unpunished would not deserve to exist. There are some things worse than war. There are some things better than money.” 1