The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-27

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Cooper Union
was crowded with a large and enthu-
siastic audience tonight of sympathiz-
ers with the Cuban insurgents. The
stage was decorated with flags of va
rious South American republics and
the stars and stripes In the center of
the stage was the marble bust of Jose
rounded by ported plants and palm
leaves.
The mass meeting was similar to the
meetings recently held in Chicago,
Boston and Washington.
Charles A. Dana presided and made
the opening address, eulogiZing the
late Jose Marti and expressing strong
sympathy with the Cuban cause.
DR.. Winters who acted as secretary
of the meeting, read letters of regret
from Congressman Amos Cummings,
Governor Mcintyre, of Colorado; Gov
ernor Culberson, Of Texas; Clarke, of
Arkansas; Rev. Arthur McMahon, VIM.
Ball, mayor of Fargo, N. D.; ex-Gov-
ernor R. A. Alger, of Michigan; Cover
nor Roger Allen, of North Dakota;
United States Senator Chandler Au.
gustus W. Peters, Governor Upham, Of
l.
Carnegie.
Suffers Sympathy.
All the letters expressed sympathy
with the cause of Cuba. After the
secretary had finished reading them
he introduced Congressman William
Sulzer, whom he said was among the
greatest sympathizers of Cuban indie
pendence and a man who stood ready
to champion her cause ever in the Con-
gress of the United States. Mr.. Sui
zers remarks were frequently inter-
rupted by deafening applause.
He said: Let me first of all say
that welcome this opportunity to eX-
press my sentiments regarding the
freedom of Cuba, the cause of the Gu
ban patriots and the position on the
question this government should take.
What 1 say here L say from deep
conviction after nature elaboration
and as an American citizen, as an
American representative.
"In the present crisis in Cuba my
sympathies are all with the heroic and
patriotic Cubans and l sincerely hope
and believe they will succeed.
Must BE Free.
Cuba must and will be free and
Independent and in my judgment the
end is near; the result is inevitable and
the Cuban republic will soon take its
stand among the nations of the world.
There is more than instruction in
Cuba. It is revolution; revolutions
always accomplish something for the
uplifting of humanity and the amelio-
ration of the human race. l believe
in revolution when oppression cannot
longer be endured.
Spain denies that war exists in
Cuba, yet she sent a hundred thous-
and men there to put it down. Her
greatest general has taken personal
command and says he cannot succeed
unless he receives a reinforcement of
hundred and fifty thousand men.
Spain never did and never will admit
the truth about Cuba. She will not
permit the world to know what is 60
ing on in the island, the probability is
that she is not carrying on a civilized
mode of warfare.
There seems to be little difference
between Captain General Balmaceda
and Captain General Campos, and the
message of President Grant, through
his secretary of state in 1869, crying
out in the interest of Christian civili-
cation and common humanity against
the mode of warfare in Cuba by the
Spanish government, is no doubt as
true today as it was then.
Belongs to Us.
Spain cannot win; she cannot again
subjugate Cuba. Her greatest general
meets with defeat in every important
engagement and her resources are
drained to a condition of national
bankruptcy. She cannot carry on the
| war much longer and must soon admit
her inability to quell the revolution
From what L can ascertain and learn
! from the best and most authoritative
sources, I know the CubanS will accept
no terms but the freedom of the is
land.
"Cuba lies at our very door and be.
| longs to us by right Some day she
will belong to us. But it will never
| come by purchase. Cuba Will come tc
us in her own good time, but when she
| comes she will come on her pride an6
her glory and her own accord as a free
| and independent state, a possession
rich beyond the dream of avarice eno
essential to our control OF the Gull
of Mexico. our continental supremacy
and our national destiny.
1.-The time has come when, as the
people of the great republic, we must
declare our honest views ana our true
| convictions and declare them lR nc
weak yascillating or mistaken torres
TO remain silent much longer would
subject us to the ridicule and condem-
nation of every nation of the western
hemisphere.
Our Duty Plain.
"Our duty is plain, aye, in my hum.
BILE judgment, is imperative. We should
recognize the Cuban patriots as oeiilg.
erenfs who have all the rights and
privileges that right implies anc
affords in modern warfare. In this
matter in Congress I will follow where
| any man may dare to lead; will lead
where any man may dare to follow
I cannot speak for the administration;
I cannot speak but for one man in
the Fifty-fourth Congress, but I hope
and believe that within the next few
weeks some action will be taken that
will command the approval of every
liberty loving American from Baffins
Bay to the Straits of Magellan.
'In the name of the God of nations
let Cuba be free. In the name of hui
manity long live the Cuban republic. .