The Worthington advance., 1896-12-10
Text of President Cleve-
lands Recommends
tons to Congress.
Recognition Of the Independence Of
Cuba Impossible Under Pres
ent Circumstances.
Spain Must Soon Take Steps to
End the War, or Interference by
United States VIII Follow.

tAduch Space Devoted to the Financial
Question-Necessity for Cur
rency Reform.
Washington. Dec. 7.-The following Is the
text Of President Cleveland's message to
10 the Congress Of the United States:
isgtslative branch Of their governm ent. you
strength and excellence Of our free insti-
futions and the fitness Of our citizens to
0yt poea
enomentous consequences. fraught with
feverish apprehension and creating ag-
4erness and passion has been waged
throughout our land and determined by
,9he decree Of free and ad independent 81 sui II
Rational structure. When we consider
snd any
opinions, we discover abundant . evidence deme
trymen to abide by every verdict Of tho
popular will and to be controlled at nll
by an faa IN the o fSs
e1airs Of their government
The Turkish Question.
At the outset of q reference to the more
important matters Affecting our relations
with foreign powers, 1t would afford mo sat
that the disturbed condition in Asiatic Tur-
Key had during the past year assumed sua ed.t :
as Of Se
Of humane civilization, or as the result
:natiens NJ h having % the 81 right By by treaty to in:
to the rage Of mad bigotry and cruel
situation had been mitigated.
Instead however, of welcoming soft
ened disposition OF protective intervention; Ion,
not unfrequent reports OF the Wanton de-
'struction Of homes and the bloody butch-
cry Of men, women and chlldren; maze
1aith ~
Protection of Americans.
While none Of our citizens in Turkey
hos oten far IN fbe a Or Of
scenes of danger. their safety in the fu-
ture is by no means assured. Our govern
stantinople have left nothing undonc to
protect our missionaries in Ottoman terri
tory, who constitute nearly all the lndlvld-
'uals residing there who have a right to
claim our protection on the score OF Amer
sacan citizenship.
Cuban Insurrection.
The insurrection in Cuba still continues
with all its perplexities: It IS difficult to
been made towards the pacification Of the
island. or that the situation Of affairs as
epseea IN the FEAST a Spain st holds
siderable towns the st, 15s roam IN
land country. II the determination Of
Spain to put down the insurrecton seems
but to strengthen with the lapse OF time
of largely increased military and naval
forces TO the task, there is much reason to
that the s r
sources, and are none the less inf1exible In
their resolve not to succumb without prac-
tfcally securing the great objects for which
they took up arms.
Not Yet Entitled to Recognition.
II Spain has not yet reesta blished her
authority, neither have the insurgents yet
independent state. Indeed. as the con-
government exists on the island. except so
been practically abandoned. Spain does
keep on foot such a government. more or
ter
tion being made, the entire country Is either
given over to anarchy or is subject to tho
military occupation OF one or the other
party.
Why Spain Does Not Win.
Were the Spanish armies able to meet
their antagonists in the open. % or in pitchea
be looked for, and the immense superiority
OF the Spanish forces in numbers. dis,
to tell greatly @ to their advantage. A"
Situation Deplorablc.
Meanwhile, as in all cases OF protracted
civil strife. the passions of the combatants
grow more and more infamed tanstaH an exSesses I
more deplorable. They are also partici-
pated in by bands Of marauders, who, now
name "a ne Of % the q other, as as may best suit the
occasion, harry the country at will and
plunder its wretched Inhabitants for their
would Inevitably entail immense destruction
of property, even If 1t were the policy.
a w G ns to fSo
1T has now apparently abandoned it and .s
:sursents, namely, that the exigencies OF
the contest require the wholesale annihila-
ton Of properly that it may not prove Of
the same end that In pursuance of general
orders. Spanish garrisons are now being;
Withdrawn from plantations and the rural
population required to concentrate itself
In the towns.
Would Engage Our Serious Attention.
The spectacle OF utter ruin Of an adjoin..
fertile and charming on the globe, would
engage the serious attention Of the gov,
States n in am any cir circu%mstance. % C. In peint Of
fact, they have a concern with it which Is
by no means Of wholly sentimental
to US as to be hardly separated from our
territory. Our actual pecuniary interest In
it Is second only to that Of the people anc
government of Spain. 1t Is reasonably es-
flnated that at least from $3O,OOD. .NG to
So, OO0, 900 Of American capital are invested
In plantations, and in railroad, mining
and other business enterprises on thu:
4sland. The volume of trade between the
United States and Cuba, which in 1889
amounted to about $64 .0OO, ,00O. rose in 1888
TO about $103000 .00O and In 1894, the
year before the present insurrection
broke out. amounted to nearly $96.O0o0oo.
Vexatious Entanglements.
Besides this large pecun1ary stake in
e1he fortunes Of Cuba, the United States
r1nds itself inextricably involved In the
present contest in other ways both vex-
.Stious and costly. Many Cubans reside in
.fllis, country and indirectly promote the
through the press, by public
meetings, by the purchase and shipment of
ocms by the raising of funds and by other
smeans, which the spirit Of our institutions
and the tenor of our laws do not permit
ito be made the subject of Grim inal prosecu-
2fons. Some of them, though Cubans at
heart and in all their feelings and interests,
have taken out papers. as naturaiized citi-
EeYls Of the United States, a proceeding re-
sorted to with q view to possible protec-
1don BY this government, and not unnat-
Urally regarded with much indignation by
xhe country OF their origin.
The Question Of Intervention.
These inevitable entanglements OF the