Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
AN APPEAL FOR cusA

| te<vention OF Our Government and the
| Recognition of Cuban independence
Subscriptions Called For.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1s-Col. Ethan Al
| len, president of the Cuban League of
| The United States, which was organ
| ICED the other evening by number Of
| prominent New Workers ut the Fifth
avenue hotel, issued an address to the
! public yesterday, in which he sets
forth the principles and purposes of
| the organization. The address, after
/ reviewing the struggle in Cuba from
| its inception to the present time, says:
! We are charged before the world with i'm
/ potency in not protecting our own citizens
! against Spanish violence on Cuban soil and in
| huShing our Indignation at unnurnbered cruei-
| ties in Cuba, while millions of American capt.
| tai there invested are gradually disappearing,
which would be saved by the immediate inter-
vention OF this government
FellOW-citizenS, it is due to ourselves as
we'll to Cuba that this record should be re-
verSed. This has not been our record hlther-
to, and we are persuaded will not remain SO
| now, when an appeal is made to the humanity
as we'll as to the material interests of our peo-
pie.
We do not propose, nor is it necessary to vi
olate our laws, but If the laws stand in the
way, then change the laws.
We, the people. are the source OF power, and
may dictate what the law shall be, and there
fore cannot shield ourselves behind statutory
phraSeology from the odium OF not fulfilling
our natural obligations toward people strug-
CLING to be free. Let US speak that the leg
iSlatureS OF this nation and our representa-
tfyeS in congress shall recognize Cuban
independence and all will be we'll We
are not required to raise battalions
of men, nor to furnish ships of
war, but are called upon to declare that the
heart OF this nation is with the oppressed
Cubans and then with her independence &c
acknowledged, her unarTned heroes may obtain
from US. as required, the equipments III war,
as Spain has done heretofore, and thus
blaze the way for final victory, surely to
follow, as, in the end, right triumphs over
wrong
The league asks for subscri ptions
throughout the United States in aid of
the patriots, which may be sent to
Hon. Darwin r. James, the treasurer,
2O3 Broadway, New York.
The league will hold a grand mass
meeting in Cooper Union next Monday.
Activity OF the American Friends of the
Cuban Cause.
NEW YORK. Dec. 1S.-The American
Friends of Cuba held meeting last
night at Grocers' hall Franz Mayer,
president of the organization, an
nounced that he had received more
than l 900 communications within the
past few days in regard to Cuban af-
fairs. No less than 3O4, 600 signatures,
he said, had been secured to the petit
ton circulated asking congress to act
speedily in the Cuban matter.
President Mayer received letters I'M
der date of December Is from United
States Senators Cullom, Mills and Cam
eron. Senator Cullom wrote:
Il have no doubt that all will be
done that can be consistently done af-
ter an investigation of the facts touch
ing the reported death of Gen. Ma
Geo."
Speeches which caused great en-
thusiasm were made by III. d. Rodri-
guez, DR.. Henry Lincoln Zayas, secre-
tary of the Gu ban juDta, and others.
Resolutions of cooperation with the
Cuban league were unanimously adopt
ed
It was announced that branches of
the American Friends of Cuba had
been organized in nearly all of the
larger cities of the United States.
The Friends of Cuba will assemble and
march in body to the mass meeting
auspices of the Cuban League next
Monday night They expect to have
1900 in line. It was announced last
night that the speakers at the meet.
ing would be United States Senator
Morgan, Gen. Bradley T. Johnson,
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Gen. Blumfield
and Gen. Sickels. 1t is expected that |
the auditorium will be filed and that |
overflow meetings will be necessary.
Anxiety In Havana on Account of the Un. |
certainty of Maceo's Death.
KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. 18-Passen-
gers by the Olivette report that great |
is felt in Havana on ac- |
count of the uncertainty of Maceos |
death. 1t is reported on good autho-
ity that Gen. Prats, commander of |
Matanzas province, has notified Gen.
Weyler by telegram to cease all dem
onstrations on account of the death of
Maceo and that Gen. Bernal, of said
province, had an engagement Tuesday
week with Maceo, who had 5000 men
with him. The Spaniards report
as usual.
Passengers state that the report of
Maceo's death is well understood in
and that it was made up by
The order of the home government to
influence the congress of the United
States. There was the widest kind
IF excitement on the dock Wednesday
night when this statement was made.
The cruiser Raleigh returned Wednes-
lay afternoon from her chase after the
Three Friends. It is reported on good
that a small boat landed at
his port from the Three Friends about
our o'clock.
No Court-Hfartials in Iowa for Cuban
Volunteers.
Dies MONIES, Ia, Dec. 1s.-Iowa SYM
oathizers with Cuba are diligently at
work. Gov. Drake yesterday declared
lis sympathy for the Cubans and de-
dared that there would be no court
nartials of Iowa military officers who
we're sympathizers in the cause.
The local junta announces that a I
arge party of men will leave here to- ;
lay for gulf coast points, where they
will rendezvous and be taken thence
o Cuba.
Cuban Volunteers Organising in idaho.
SALT LAKE CRY, Utah, Dec. 1s.-A
ompany of volunteers is being organ
zed at Pocatello, Idaho, by DIR. C. n.
Rocker, TO go to Cuba to join the in
Fifty men fully armed and
quipped will be ready to leave for =