The record-union., 1895-11-22
CAUSE Of CUBA
BOLDLY ADVOCATED AT PHILA-
DELPHIA LAST NIGHT.
Governor Matthews of Indiana Urges
the Liberation From Spanish Rule
of the Inhabitants.

boldly advocated at the Academy of
Music tonight at a meeting held under
the auspices of the Philadelphia Bri-
gade, Pennsylvania Reserves. The
principal address of the evening was
made by Governor Claude Matthews of
Indiana, who delivered the speech
upon Free Cuba" that he had prepared
to deliver at the Atlanta Exposition.
The audience was not large, but it made
up in enthusiasm what it lacked in
numbers and Governor Matthews and
the other speakers were heartily ap-
plauded, and the sentiments they gave
utterance to in behalf of Cuban liberty
were those of their auditors. Governor
Matthews spoke in part as follows:
Cuba was the first in all the Western
hemisphere to disclose her beauty to
the venturesome and covetous Span
lard, and soon thereafter became the
base of the various expeditions OF
Spain against Mexico and the southern
continent. Here We're fitted out her ex-
petitions for discovery and conquests
Of rapacious greed of heartless cruelty
and atrocious inhumanity unequalled
in the history of the world"
The Governor traced the further his
tory of the everfaithful isle" and
contrasted it with that of the Spanish
their autonomy. Poor Cuba he ex-
elaine, '1ulled to sleep with false and
Geceitful promises of reform and the
honeyed flattery of ever faIrhfui,'
awOke to find herself deceived, bound
hand and foot, her loyalty despised,
robbed of her birthright and only prey
for spoils. The pages of history no
where reveal more atrocious crimes
against humanity more cruel warfare
of outraged truth and justice, more
greater crimes against all Christian
civilization than have marked Spanish
pusruie and despotiSm In Cuba. A gem
upon the sea, it would have been a
mine of wealth to it's possessOrs through
the maturing, fostering care of hu-
name rule, and would have we'll re-
plenished the depleted treasury of de-
cayed and effete nation. But the re-
verse has been true.
The wrongs against which we re-
belled were not half SO grievous, nor
the barbarous cruelties nearly so great,
and yet the same great principles are
involved that aroused to action our
fathers in 11l6. Yet with all disad-
vantages, the Cuban patriot has been
brave, and has fought good fight
Her sons have inhaled the atmosphere
OF this liberty-loving country. We can
almost hear her agoniZing cry for help
across the narrow channel that sepa
rates us.
"Of the extent of war and of the
actual condition, we can have no accu-
rate information. The insurgents can
send none; the Spanish authorities give
none. Spain, thousands of miles away,
by her acts proclaims that it is war, a
revolution, not the mad caprice of a
mob. A nation of 1900, 600, with l.
100000 soldiers on war footing, is
pouring into Cuba vast armies of men
material, supplies and munitions of war
emptying both her arsenals and her
treasury"
The speaker closed his address with a
tribute to the Monroe doctrine" which
he introduced thus: There often comes
time in the lives of nations, as we'll as
men, when it becomes necessary to walk
in a new untroGden path; to brush aside
the cobWebS Of tradition which OBJ
scure the view; to grasp great living
thoughts and meet the problem of
growing, progressive age-in short, to
find way or make it,
He quoted the examples of England
and other foreign nations which had not
hesitated to extend aid to suffering peo-
pies in remote parts of the world, and
added: "Godspeed to the Cuban patriot
in his sublime hope and his holy ambi-
ton. Her cause is just; the right shall
prevail and in Gods own time Cuba
Will be free.
Governor Matthews was followed by
Gonzales de Queseda of New York, the
Secretary of the Cuban Junta Mr.. de
QueSeda made an impaSsioned and dra-
matte speech, appealing to the sympa-
thies of the audience for the strug-
Cling Cubans and asking that they be
recognized as belligerents by this Gov
ernment.
Resolutions of sympathy and promis-
ing aid to the Cubans were adopted.
The resolutions also called upon the
Senators and Representatives of Penn
sylvania, and upon the two houses of
Congress when they meet, to pass a
concurrent resolution directing the Pres
ident to recognize the republic of Cuba
as a belligerent nation" A committee
Of the Philadelphia brigade will pre-
sent the resolutions to President Cleve-
la