The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-10
HOUSTON DAILY POST TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 1896

| against proceeding with the minister's
statement,
Mr. Hale had stood calmly during the
| storm OF protests. lie said it was Il most
| remarkable fact that senators would not
| hear this statement OF facts
| Mr.. Frye suggested that Mr.. Davis WITH
| draw his point of order and allow the
| paper to los read aud that In reply a
| communication IN the Washington Post OF
| prominent Cuban Ohe secretary OF the
| Cuban legation in Washington be read.
! The suggestion to also give the cuban
side hearing was received with DEM
| onstration by the galleries.
| Mr.. Hale declined. saying the statement
could he read In the time of some other
senator.
| Continuing, Mr.. Hale sent to the desk
and had read communication to the
| New York World from Or. William shaw
Bowen, a communication mot Concocted
! IN tho organs of the Instruction but
| written by II man compelled to tell the
| truth in a newspaper whose sympathies
| were with the insurgents, but which WAS
| broad enough to print both sides. The
| extract referred to General Weyler as Il
greatly traduCed man" who had been
systematically attacked by the enemies
| OF the spanish cause. This communication
extracted from an unwilling witness.
Mr.. Hale said he would place against
anything written by Cubans IN tins Guy.
Ito also read from current news dispatches
Of the burning by the insurgents OF thir-
teen towns ana the destruction OF To-
pttto anu lllH jNnapllhNNS Wuilutiiu S Ncip-
lees and starving through the country
| These, said he, are the methods adopted
to defeat Spain.
'Here," he continued ARE the exalting
details IN newspapers which sympathize
with the insurgents"
Liberty" he added, does not fight
It's battles in that way. Freedom springs
from prison bars. burning lirs aye from
IT'S own ashes, but not sueh %ntiaGration
and devils work. The heart stirred ny
the story Of Bunker iIill turns with loath-
Ing from such tales as these. II Is not
war, but lncendiarism. destruction by the
torch, murder and outrage. II IS the Wild
est stroke Of savagery. / VIII never vote
TO give aid and comfort 10 leaders whose
exploits are thus chronicled.
"There Is another side Mr.. Hale was
proceeding when Senator sherman inter
ruptel him and asked him how long we
were 10 allow this state Of affairs 10 con-
I.uue
That" replied Mr.. Hale, is the same
question which WAS put TO the diplomat
lists during the war Of rebellion. Whenever
our arms sustained a reverse They were
asked whether that did not disclose a
state Of war. That was the great burden
which rested most heavily on those then
AT the head of our affairs. That question
gave a stoop to the tall shoulders of LIN
coin. j weighed most anXiousiy on tho
able seward and broke down the lion
hearted stanton. The answer to 1t IS to
1o found in tho instructions Of Secretary
"But.' ntorposed Mr.. Sherman, spain,
England and France had acknowledged
ire beillgcrency of the Confedcacy before
single battle was fought, In language
"a nucai with that In the first OF these
resolutions"
Il am not speaking Of benigerency"
replied Mr.. Hale but of Independence.
SeWards answer was that the United
States were engaged in one of the most
Herruiedn tasks in the annals of tho
Charles +. Adams at the court OF St.
James and orr minister to France were