The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-25
DICKINsON's IDEAS.
Humanity Requires Our Intervention
in Cuba.


The Ex-Postmaster General Declares for
The Intervention of the United states
to Stop the Atrocities-We sent gym
pathy to Greece, Poland and hungary
and Cuba Should Have Similar treat
ment.
Detroit October "a. The Hon. Don M
Dickinson, in an authorized interview TO-
day, comes out for national action Oh we
cuban question After reviewing the
treatment of Cuba by Spain he says:
Your conservative Cuban native VIII
tell you that when the present insurrec-
tion started it was premature, out 1hey
Will say since it began the best young
men OF the island have gone INTO the
patriot army, and it now has the
universal sympathy of the best eleihehcs
there. The talk of negro domination IS
absurd. The President is large land
proprietor, man of cultivation OF rare
intelligence and ability, and a patflot
from principal The predominatlng IN
huence in the instruction now comes
from men who are risking their hves'
property and everything that Is dear TO
them for the salvation of their country.
Cuba has been made the prey OIL opaln' OF
Spanish merchants, and OF spanish
officialism,
II do not think our people owe Spain
very much consideration Oh the record.
While ostensibly friendly during the
Revolutionary war, at the close OF IL she
insisted and intrigued with France ana
England to fix the Alleghan1es as the
boundary of our possessions. spain
occupied ST. Joseph, Mich, IN IiSl, ana
made that occupation q pretext Tor at,
tempting, to divide with england ati anu
France all the rest of the continent.
While we must maintain the laws OF
neutrality, yet the law of humanity is
higher, and whether or not the USlted
States recognizes the belligerency or the
independence of Cuba, this country
should certainly intervene in the interests
of civilization to restrain the atrocities IN
the island of Cuba.
This is what Cubans are hoping ana
praying for. No law can restrain the OK.
preston Of our national feeling OF
sympathy, nor should it restrain, IN my
opinion, such an expression from the
country Cuba is at our door, in the
highway of our commerce, SO near tnat
as the murders go on we can hear the
SnrlekS Oh UIl6 WOlueu dIiu CuliuloA CIV
see the horrors renewed in Cuba that
were practiced by Alya in the Neither.
lands. We can send our sympathies to
Greece. to Poland, to Hungary, but here
at home, at our very doors, shall this
struggling people toss their fettered arms
and groan for freedom 8 gifts in vain? =
"When in 1894, Mr.. Webster proposed
national expression of sympathy for
Greece he was met with a gibe that he
was second Don Quixote. Webster's re-
ply is memorable. and quote it:
At that Mr.. Dickinson sprang to his
feet, and with dramatic force recited:
."''I cannot say, sir, that they will sue
coed; that rests with Heaven; but for my
SELF if / should hear tomorrow that they
had failed; that their last phalanx had
sunk beneath the Turkish scimeter; that
the flames Of their last city had gone
down into ashes, and that naught re-
manned but the wide melancholy waste
whero Graece once was. I should still re-
fleet with the most heartfelt satisfaction
that had asked you, in the name of the
seven millions of freeman, that You
would give them at least thescheering OF
one friendly voice. "