Evening journal., 1895-10-24
DICKINSON ON CUBA.
Declares Humanity Demands
Our Intervention.
TIE ATROCITIES MUST BE STOPPED
The Ex-Postmaster General Suggests Thai
the United States should Interfere
Struggling Cuba should Have tho Fun
Measure Of our Sympathy.

Measure Of our sympathy.
DETROIT Oct. 24.-The Hon. Don NJ
Dickinson, In an authorized interview
has como out for national action on the
Cuban question. After reviewing the
treatment Of Cuba by Spain nc says;
Your conservative Cuban native will
tell you that when the present insurroo.
ton started il was premature, but thoy
viii say since it began tho best young
men of the island have gone into the pa
triot army, and IL now has the universal
sympathy of the best clements there. The
tnlk Of negro domination Is absurd. The
president Is large landed proprietor, a
man of cultivation, of rare intelligence
and ability and patriot from principle.
Tho predominating influence In tho In
surrootion now comes from mon who are
risking their lives, property and every
thing that is dear to them for the saliva
tion of their country Cuba has been made
the prey of Spain, OF Spanish merchants
and of Spanish oilicialism.
81 do not think our people owe Spain
very much consideration ON the record.
While ostonsibly friendly during the revo.
lutionary war, at the close of it she in
sisted and intrigued VIII, France and Eng
land TO FIX the Alloghanios as tho bound
ary of our possessions. Spain occupied ST..
Joseph, Mich in 1881 and made that oc-
rupation a pretoxt for Attempting 90 d.
vide with England and France all the rest
of the continent. Whilo we must main
tain Che laws Of neutrality yet the law II
humanity Is higher, and whether or not
the United States recognizes the hclligcr-
ency or tho independence Of Cuba this
country should certainly intervene In tho
interests OF civilization 10 restrain the
atrocities In the island Of Cuba.
Hoping and Praying For Freedom.
"rhis is what Cubnns arc hoping and
praying for. No law can restrain the ex-
preston of our national feeling of sympa-
thy, nor should II restrain, in my opin-
ion, such an expression from the country.
Cuba Is at our doors, In the highway Of
our commerce, so near that as the muir.
dera 20 on we can hear the shrioka Of the
women and children aud see the horrors
removed in Cuba TINT were practiood by
Alva in tho Netherlands We can scnd our
sympathios TO Greece, TO Poland, TO Hun.
gary, but here at home az our very doors,
shall this struggling people toss their fet
tered arms and groan for freedoms gifts
in vainY
"whon, in 1924, Mr. Webster proposed
a national expression of sympathy fui
Greece ho was met with a gibe that hg
was a second Don Qulxote. Webstor's re-
ply Is memorable and / quote it;
At that Mr. Dickinson sprnng to his
fcot and with dramatic force rooitod
90 cannot say, sir, that they will sue
coed; that rests with heaven but for my
self, II ] should hear tomorrow that thcl
had fniled that their last phalnnx Ia,
sunk beneath tho Turkish scimitor tha
the flames Of their last city had gone dowI
into ashes, and that naught remained hu
tho wide melancholy waste where Greece
once was, ! should still reflect with thl
most heartfelt satisfaction that had ask
cd you, In the namo Of the 2, 600, 600 o.
freomon, that you would give thom al
least the cheering OF one friendly voice.