Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-22
NEW YORK CUBAN MEETING.
Remarkable Demonstration by the
Friends of Cuba-Strong Res
oIutions Adopted.

OIuti0ns Adopted.
New York. Dec. 2l.-The demonstration in
favor of the Cuban insurgents under the
auspices of the Society of American
Friends of Cuba, tonight was remark
able one. Four thousand men marched
fl ON East Eighty-seventh street to Cooper
Union, led by Frank Meyer, a survivor of
the Virginius massacre. The parade was
divided into ten columns.
A large American flag was borne at the
head of the procession, which moved to
the strains of drum corps of fifty pieces,
and four bands. When the marchers reach
ed Cooper Union, the great hall was crowd
ed. and few of them were able to wedge
their way in.
The platform of the hall was decorated
with the flags of the United States and
Cuba. Various revolutionary leaflets were
distributed in the audience, one of them
song "Al Machete," to the air of the Mar
seilIaise hymn.
Its chorus reads:
ITO arms! to arms! We hear the shout
al Machete,' the cry rings out.
Sweep on, sweep on, victorious hosts,
''Maceo shall be avenged"
Colonel Ethan Alien, president of the
Cuban League called the meeting to order
tnd stated its objects. Several tines dur
ing Colonel Aliens speech when President
Clevelands name was mentioned, it was
bitterly Missed. There were wild outbreaks
when Maceos name was spoken.
A series of resolutions was read and
adopted from which the following are e2-
tracts.
~The Cuban republic is entitled to receive
forthwith from this nation an official rec
ognition of its independence. Such action
by the United States would not only be
in accordance with international law, and
also in harmony with the rule heretofore
applied to other American states. but
would be the practical enforcement of that
policy applauded and defended by us all,
which was enunciated by President Monroe
that any attempt on the Part of European
powers to enforce their system over any
portion of this hemisphere, against the will
of its people, would be considered by the
United States as dangerous to their peace
and liberty"
I'm our judgment he mistakes the i'm
pulses which sway the American people
when he says: They view with wonder
and admiration the cheerful resolution with
which vast bodies of men are sent by Spain
across thousands of miles of ocean that
the costly gem of the Antilles may still
hold its place in the Spanish crown"
"On the contrary, the American people
view with horror this energy of demons,
whose purpose is to continue the robbery
and slaughter of unoffending subjects This
voluntary eulogy of Spain, whose revolving
perfidy is on every page of her history for
the past 400 years, could have been said
with equal audacity Of England century
ago, when George III. marshaled his Hes
SLAMS upon our soil and tapped at every
wigwam for it's tomahawk to secure the re-
duction of the colonies,
1--WE Indignantly repudlate the idea that
our heartless treatment of the Cuban
patriots should be continued, because
otherwise, difficulties are apprehended
with SPAIN
Governor Morton. Rev. Heber Newton,
Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr.. and Rev Robert
S. Macarthur sent spirited letters.
DIR. A. NJ. Fernandez de Ybarra, secretary
of the meeting, announced that w. E D.
Stokes had subscribed 81 200 to the fund,
a lady 800 and gentleman 5000 and read
a cablegram from the juntas agent in
Paris, saying that the total collection
there amounted to 100000.
Thousands Of people stood outside the
hall while the speechmaking went on in
side.