The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-09-25
SYMPATHY WITH THE CUBANS.
Strong Words From Chicago
Minister.
He Says We Ought Not to Hesitate to Do
Our Duty and Press Our Righteous SYM
pathy With tho Cuban Liberationists,
Even at the Risk of q war With Spain.

patny with the Cuban Liberataoniste.
Even at the Risk of War With Spain.
CHICAGO. Sept. GIVE ought not
to hesitate to do our duty and express
our righteous sympathy with the Cuban
liberationists, even though it should
involve the United States Government
in war with SPAIN"
These were tho words spoken last
night by the Rev. DR.. John Henry Bar
ruws, pastor OF the First Presbyterian
Church. In company with great
many other prominent preachers of
Chicago, the Rev. De. Barrows feels
strongly on the subject, and he is doing
everything In his power to stir up
sentiment in favor OF the native Cubaus
In their struggle with the Spaniards
He will take q leading part in the mass
meeting to be held next Mondsy even.
ing at Central Music Hall, where he
hopes that resolutions expressing strong
sympathy with the Cubsns will be
| adopted.
Much Of the Rev. Dr.. Barrows' feel
Ing IN the matter grows out Of the fact
that he visited Cuba three years ago
last winter and spent considerable time
in studying the life, habits and modes
Of government Of the inhabitants and he
| speaks, therefore, with authority.
when 1 visited Cuba" he said last
night, II realizsd why it was allied the
pearl OF the Antilles. It is certainly
one of the most beautiful portions of
Gods earth, and is possessed of almost
unlimited natural resources. And vet,
found disheartened and down trod-
den people who have been suffering for
generations under oppression the most
rapacious, exhausting and intolerable
tina the world krows anything about.
/ The native Cubans seem to have no
right or privileges which Spain is bound
to respect. It's unhappy people OF every
station are stripped of their possessions
by tax Ratherers as ruthlessly as those
OF Turkey, and as hateful as those of
Judes in the first century. Indepen.
dence from Spain Is the only solution of
the Cuban problem. We have right
to show our sympathy for The oppressed
everywhere, and we ought to besiege our
National Government to acknowledge
the belligerens rights OF these heroic
| liberstionists.
1--WE ought not to hesitate to do our
duty and express our righteous sympa-
thy, even though it should involve the
United States Governmental war with
Spain. hope that such pressure will
be brought to bear that the Government
will be forced to take action favorable
to the insurgents
% a Cuban Crisis Not Far OF.
CHICAGO. Sept. IA special to the
Tribune from Havana September 10
says: Armed parties OF revolutionists
are already in the province of Matanzas.
and actually within seveEsy-fve miles
OF the city Of Havana. OF greater i'm
portance Is the reported advance into
the province OF Matanzas. II, as Ii ia
said. they have quantities of arms and
munitions there conc called, and IL they
are really advancing in force, the crisia
Ia not far off.
Yesterday morning at2 o'clock while
the steamer Santa Barbara, wi til the bat
talon of Tetun, 100 strong, was waiting
outside the hsrbor the governmental
chief of police suddenly called in his
inspectors and special officers and at
$3.50 o'clock these, with reinforcements
from the municipal police, wenE off
rapidly in many directions. Eighty We
persons were arrested within few
hours and are now confined in cells in
the Mora Castle. Rumors were soon
flying around that great conspiracy
HIS been discovered and that the mi tial
step WAS 10 have been an attack with
dynamite on Santa Barbara or on the
batallion.
|, Is said d cuments implioatine
important personsges have been found
,: IL also said that large quantity of
concaaled arms and munitions have
been seized The sequel to the arrests
came at midnight when there was a
frisntful &C aident in the harbor. THIS
, accident was nothing more nor less
, than The sinking Of the Spanish cruz or
Batcastegui, in which forty-one lives
we're lost.
This terrible f,ir, coming close on
the heels OF the arrests. has caused
! profound alarm. While official r. ports
, leave little doubt that the collision WAS
accidental, nevertheless IL is 8 strange
co.incident, st least. The question S
asked how the Mortera should have
been empting to enter the port after
it WIS closed, and there are those who
say 1t was better to send Spanish
! cruiser and sn admiral to the bottom
than troop ship.