The morning times., 1895-11-01
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oUEsADA's RINGING SPEECH.
Senior Oucsada, the last speak and who
was familiar to the audience from what
has been said of him In The Times. received
n perfect ovation. He deserved ii all very
highly. He is finished orator and car
ried the audience With him from the be-
ginning to the end OF very able speech.
His delivery isdraniatic. but conscientiously
so. II was evident That be spoke from
subject very near his heart.
senor Q.es.iua SPOKE as iolio VS.;
The city OF Washington, bearing the
glorious name OF the liberator OF this re-
public, is sacred ground for all lovers OF
human rights, for all men aspiring to be
free and equal. But for n child OF America
IL is like the mothers bosom, where he
looks for support and comfort, and for the
son of unfortunate Cuba, the last and
forlorn remnant ol monarclIcai Europe, and
OF Spanish tyranny on this continent, you-
august Capitol, crowned with the goddess
OF justice, represents republican institu-
tions, tried and found true; democratic
suffrage, equity and progress. and the severe
and towering obelIsk piercing the blue
sky, the emblem OF the pure and noble
spirit which took form III the heroes OF
universal emancipation; who conquered for
themselves and for mankind the most
precious OF all boOns, government or the
people. for the benefit or all honest men
whatever he their nationality or creed,
and moulded by the sagarlous and never
erring power, the sovereign Will OF the
people.
washington has done well to remind the
world OF the last request OF that gallant
soldier, Gen. Ra wins, whose bronze statue
NOT 1ar from here seems 10 DE enuo wed with
strange life; 10 advance from his granite
pedestal, proudly wave his military cloak
and unsneathing his sword, salute ana wei
come us- washington repeats his last request
to his friends ON mis- dying bed; his. as still,
uniIeeded prayer; his command, which
tonight, throughout the length ana breadth
OF the lana, re-echoes Ifno uncertain tones,
from every city, from every town, from
every hamlet, the voice OF the nation, the
voice OF God: Cuba must be free. You
must see TO it that Cuba is free
LESSON OF 17T6.
"You, who with less reasons than US, re-
sisted taxation without representation
who refused compromises and reforms, per-
haps sincere but carrying with II the post
ponement of honor, you who sounded the
tocsin NJ rebellion for the world. you who,
undaunted, faced oppression ut Lexington,
suffered hardships ut Valley Forge and
triumpbed at Yorktown, Initiated the era
OF separation which demolished the secular
theory oI divine right and conquest. winch
created an Hidaigo in Mexico, MoraZen
in Cen tral America, q San Martin,
Sucre, Bolivar in the South, and with
them the birth of twenty sister republics
you who influenced and accelerated the
unity of different natiunalities, you whose
light helped to discover that splendid star
OF the first magnitude, Brazil, you who
caused the old world with its hampering
traditions to give way To the new with
its marvellous inventions, received as a
token of your destiny fulfilled, from the
new, the victorious and flashing sword OF
Simon Bolivar, from the regenerated old,
the heavy and blondy key OF the Bastile.
"Yet there is wanting for the fuifillment
of yuur destiny that the irons which have
lascerated the Cuban patriot for three
quarters of a century be forever thrown
at the bottom of the ocean which separ-
ates him from his unrepentant master.
that the refined implements or torture of
the Middle Ages be returned to the pro-
gressive Spanish nation, which at the end
of philosophy OF their positions because they
would not teach philosophy as the govern
ment would have them, which burns, as
four centuries ago, the books of learning,
which buries bull lighters with pomp and
starves the school masters; there is soine-
thing yet to happen; the presentation to
the United States by the grateful Cubans of
the key OF the most jnbuinan, most cruel,
most criminal of all bulwarks of misrule,
the key of Moro castle
PERMANENT COMMITTEE.
When the applause that marked the con-
,lusion of this speech died away the presi-
dent put the resolutions above given and
they were carried unanimously and enthu-
siastically.
The president also publicly thanked Mr..
Metzerott for the use of the hall. which
thanks were ratified by the meeting viva
voce. Mr.. Wolf proposed the following
resolution which was adopted after
slight amendment which is incorporates:
Resolved, That 4 permanent committee
of fifty representative men and women or
Washington, be appointed by the chairman.
who shall be its chairman. for the purpose
of furthering the lawful interests of the
uban patriots"
Captain Granville Fernard was then
introduced, and read poem on the sub
jcct of the meeting, the sentiments of which
were responded to by the audience.
Near the close of the proceedings Corporal
Tanner read amid great applause a dis
patch from Mayor Mckenna, or Pitts-
burg mass meeting with the present gather
ing. This was of course received with
cheers. The doXology was then sung. Prof.
Toward leading. which closed a most
memorable gathering of the people a Wash
lgton. and one which marked the culinina-
tion of the efforts of The Times that it
should be an unlimited success. which it,
was. One of its most marked features was
the numerous presence of the Union Vet
Gran Iepinn. of the g. A z and of the IaiIies