The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-11

Mc now have reached tho tlmc to
TAKE aonthcr step IN advance.
We have already proclaimed that tho
uhNtcu states will lilVn something TO
say reearding matters affecting tho
american continent, nnd we should
now announce that the speedy termI-
nation OF Spanish control OF the Is
lands at the gateway OF the Mexican
EGir Is necessary alike to the welfare OF
ihoSc Islands and 10 the people OF the
United States, -
The present situation cannot con-
nnue, n population OF $4,000 white
Suoans anu 5Oo,O00 colorcd CubanS, ag.
SrcgatlnE l,iSo,0Q0 persons, will never
yield and onght never TO submit to the
bloody military rile OF 10000 Spnn-
iards. Within the borders OF the island
RACES a war which on both sides IL de-
clarcu 70 be war either of eXtermi-
nation on the one hand. or liberty and
spanish exclusion on the other. This
condition must cease. The Spanish, at-
Ter two years OF wac, have failed to cS.
iablish peace and the Insurgents have
rallied TO reach their hoped-ror inde.
,pcndencc. sItT
This war ot determination must
stop.
This Congress Of tho United States
has already recognized by solemn res
elntIon tho belllScrent rights OF Cuba.
hGt so long as, II has not, received the
executive approval, It has no force.
anu II Il had. u u conceded that some
other course must be taken. The cues
ton TO be determined Is not iully
clear except that the war must cease.
Mr.. Culi0m then spoke OF the pro.
GreSs or Spanlsh-American republics
OF south America. Then rotutnlng 20
Cuba, he said:
Government or Tyranny.
The government Of Cuba by spaln IA
merely tyranny, the governmental
power being but machine by which the
profits OF the resIden: sugar grower 20
10 MI the pockets Of the Spanllrd 1000
miles away. a government which years
ago suffered dismemberment by tho COM
plete severance OF It's South American
territories which has been Inundated by
their SUCCESS az Independent Countries,
hnds It's last claim 10 a profitable de.
pendcncy now threatened. The people
or Cuba, who have borne expressions
and tnlssovernmcnt for many genera
ttona, have Invited their oppressors to q
iinal determination, and have bIddcn
them welcome TO u feast of war and 4
carnival Of desolatlon.
Right or wrong, the struggle continues
and II we can judge by the history OF the
men Of both armies Il will continue until
the last dollar Is spent, the last planta-
ton ls ruined and the last machetc has
fallen from the hands OF the last man.
The lighters there on either side neither
give nor ask FOR quarter. The warfare
between Chile and Peru, where hospitals
and ambulance service were not neHtsSd
after battle. will have lts counterpart
10 come extent on the battlefelds o.
Cuba. The successful army will not be
buNiennd with wounded enemies when
few hours OF throat cutting will make all
quiet "a the grave. II ls on one hand
war to win, and on the other fight 10
death. The best blood of AndaleuSa,
what Is leA OF II, IS deemed not too
sacred 10 be sacrificed II need be In the
contest with. the patriots, the mixed
races who nt. rIskInS their all for the
liberty OF Cuba.
Cuba To-day is lost TO Spain. Tho
public proclamation of Spanish defeat
may not have been officially and Len-
nltcly announced, but in truth and fact
the submission of Cuba will never again
be yielded Us oI old. The tribute OF
twenty-five to forty million dollars an
nually so long expected. will never again
replcnlsh the treasury OF Spain. The
struggles Of 1895 and 1896 may badly
cripple Cuba. but they will ruin Spain.
Cuba Lost TO Spain.
repeat that Cuba Is already los. 20
Spain. Were the struggle 10 stop now,
the income to Spain from the enormous
exaciions sho has always levied upon
Cuba would be lost fur some syears.
nF nf
flower OF Spanish manhood have been
sacrificed to maintain the power OF n
dynasty. Many thousands of 'horost,
sincGrr, and loyal boys have left their
homes In Spain never 70 return. Many n
mother wecpS uravailing tears for the
lad who left her side year ago and
who now sleeps In the fever swanps o.
Cube.
The American people arc coming to the
consideration OF the Cuban situation as
they already have IN certain other CT scs
as great political question. continen-
tai question, X You please. And being q
political continental question, Il viii DO
decided ultimately by tho continent
whose interests are most clearly involv-
ed. Geographically considered. Cuba
cannot belong 10 Spain. She Is In Amer
lean waters and politically Is entitled to
statehood in the continent OF American
republics.
Has the United States no interest In
our own trndc and commerGe with an
island from which we receive fully %
pcr cen; OF the vust sugar product and
much tho larger part OF all her other
productions? The interests OF tho United
States, counting all things passing be-
tween the two countries. rench perhaps
sl0O0OoOOO annually aud already this
trade has been practically wiped out.
Tho Cuban exports OF sugar alone have
fallen during the current yehr-lsg6-
from above a million tons TO less than n
hundred thousand. The tobacco trade
Is dead. Neither will revive until war
stops and the Spanlarls get out OF Cuba,
That Is the only solution OF the trade
problem. -.
Hns Spain any sympathy for or friend
ship with ths country? Americans have
hcGn Imprisoned md punished in Cuba
for even expressing sorrow for the poor
young medical studcntd who were cruel
ly sho, and murdered IN Havana q few
wears aF;o. There * not family OF my
standing In Cuba which has not lost one
or more OF !ta members by arbitrary ar
rest and gunrlsc murder by armed troops,
who marched their v!ctInin 10 the place
OF blood and shot thcm In the back.
In tho present war. which has, lasted
about twcnty-0no months, Spain has
wasted over hundred millions, and has
pu, Into the field possibly 100000 men
and boys.
Our Duty.
As have before intlmated believe 1t
to be the duty OF the United Stntes to use
the great power attaching to tho nation
to declare and maintain. MS n prcrngatlve
OF right, belonging generally to licpubll-
cnnIsm. and especially to this republic,