The Portland daily press., 1895-11-15

Inc argus, IN commenting upon tHo
speech of Senator Frye at the Portland
Club banquet day or two since, re-
marked that the Senator made no refer
ence to the Cuban patriots who are now
fighting for liberty. The Argus is in
error in this statement After discussing
the foreign policy of the present admins
tration at considerable length, the Sena-
tor proceeded to discuss the legislation of
the last congress. At the close of his
speech in contrasting the prosperous days
of 1892 with the widespread business de-
preston of the past year or two. and re-
ferring to the restoration of the Republi-
can party to power at the next election,
Senator Frye said:
1--WE will restore the prosperous days OF
| 1892. We will bring back to the working
man the wages of that period, and with
| that increase of wages we will give to the
| merchants and manufacturers of this
country the increasing power of those
wages and thus increase business. Is
there anything else we will do? Yes. We
will build the Nicaragua canal and
marry the two oceans. We will keep on
building these white machines of war
until our navy shall command the respect
of the world. (Applause). We will go
on and provide coast defences SO that no
nation of Europe eau levy fines and taxes
upon any of our great cities. We will
enact laws intended at any rate to restore
our merchant marine o,its old position
on The oceans of the world, so that our
| flag shall once more float and be known
! in every harbor in Europe.
We will give tine people of this oountr y
sound currency, every single dollar of
/ xuhio haD no To nthor dbl
lar, and the whole of which shall be re-
deemable in whatever may be the stand
ard of the the world We will have
foreign policy. and if France or Great
Britain, or any other nation. takes a
United States consul by the name of
Waller, or any other name, and incar.
cerates him in prison without right, we
is released AID protected in his rights.
We will :. enforce thu Monroe
doctrine against the world.
Ii / had my way-as shall not have it
Il am not talking for the Republican
party now-I wouldn't keep too close a
watch nor employ too many ships to see
to it that nobody who sympathizes with
the fighting patriots in Cuba shall be
permitted to visit that Island. On the
contrary-I am speaking Tor myself now
on the contrary, if | didn't know
enough of my own knowledge to do it,
would take the very earliest and
promptest means of acquiring the neces-
sary knowledge and then at the earliest
possible moment l would recognize the
belligerent rights Of the patriots in Cuba.
1t didn't take Spain l think over three
months after Sumter was fired upon to
recognize the be.ligerent rights of the
South and here these patriots down there
have been fighting for freedom tor as
many as two or three years and yet not a
single step has been taken by our govern
ment to even ascertain whether or Tot it
was our duty when our entire people are
| sympathizing with these men, who are
| fighting for their rights and for their
| freedom, to recognize tn ose belligerent
rights. On the contrary we seem to be
| Indifferent lookers-on without any care
in the matter at all am not in favor of
| the annexation Of Cuba to the United
States but 1 am in favor of men who are
| fighting for freedom anywhere on the
face of this earth, and would 40 every
thing in my power to help them. Let
Cuba achieve her independt e, let
United States capital have free course to
run, and be glorified in that magnificent
island, and in the course of ten or fifteen
years might be exceedingly happy to
is Ike Cuba in5o the arms of the United
States. 1t ought to have belonged to
| this c0untrv