The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-15
Senator MOrgan's DenunciatiOn
of the BIoodthirsty Spanish
In the Senate Today Listened
to BY Crowds.
u. S. MUST ACT NOW.
Can Not Look ON at Disgraceful
Butchery
Of Cubans and Many Americans
as Well.

Washington. Dec. Ex-senator MOT
gan of Alabama today made a pro
Cuban speech in the senate
Mr.. Palmer had called up one OF the
pension bills heretofore vetoed by the
president. but yielded TO MI Morgan
FOR speech on Cuba
Mr.. Morgan said. II viii cOnhne my
remarks TO comments upon the facts
stated in the recent annual message Of
the president and the report of the sec
retary of state. I am not able 10 as
cover that the president has made any
specific recommendations or indication
as TO any action he deems IL proper or
expedfent for congress TO take with
reference to Spain or Cuba nor that he
has indicated any course except sun
patient waiting, that the executive pro
Congress. thus left to its own inftia-
tive must assume its own responsible
ty in a matter of the most serious
"Congress must give to the state
ments of the president unhesitating ac-
Captauce as to matters that We're com
mitted by the constitution to his espec-
state the facts that affect our relations
with other powers we must accept those
facts unless the dispTOOf of them is
OverpOwering-
This message is. therefore. Of the
most impressive importance, as a state
ment of the leading facts and concur
AADNS LlLdL pear upon our 4I-lES IN re-
spect TO the conflict of arms which
has ragged for over two years in the
island Of Cuba, and it has the support
of nearly all the American people i
have not heard that Spain controverts
any statement of the president in his
message. The evidence that comes
from private sources relative to the
condition of Cuba and the horrors of
persecution, rapire and determination
visited upon the people of Cuba, admits
of no doubt as to its credibility. Yet
it presents pictures so incredibly inhu-
man and so disgraceful TO the ciViliza-
tion of this age that it stuns the mind
into disbelief that such things can be
true"
AS Mr.. Morgan spoke the galleries
filled and his words were followed with
close attention by the senators and the
large number of spectators
Mr.. Morgan went on to speak of the
trying situation which required prompt
action to save thousands of innocent
people from cruel and deliberate butch
cry.
The whole sale massacres of Spain
were no surprise to the senator. who
had anticipated them.
If war with the United States is nee
essary to reconcile the Spanish people
10 the loss of Cuba by foreign CON
quest. said Mr. Morgan. 1--WE shall be
compelled TO meet that emergency. If
the destruction of Cuba is enough to
satisfy the popular sentiment of re-
Nenge we can avoid a war with Spain
hy remaining inactive, while our own
people are being ruined. or slaughtered.
along with the Cubans. If we mean to
take any action towards stopping this
war of annihilation and determination.
we have no time to lose"
Mr. Morgan spoke of the resolution of
rongress ait the last session which he
said gave to the president the choice
of concurring with the policy Of con
gress. or delaying The president chose
delay The war has continued said
Mr.. Morgan. until it has reached the
final and desperate stage of a war of
devastation and determination, with
the people of Cuba as a prey to those
who have set aside the usual honora BILE
usages of warfare. and have become
robbers, cut throats. ASSASSIN ravish-
ers and pirates"