The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-30
COCHRAN ONT SPAIN.
Declares the United Estates Should
Stop the Cuban, War.
GOVERNMENT SHOUT. CRYnAL7
To the span,sras-Ths i,re.idsnt ,Iu,s
aiovs-rhs ersa. New 70 Ii Orators Adj.
dress to :,ece cnhani, Arouses MS
iiearer-unitsd States couid Use 1t,
Navy In No Better caa, than TO Free
Cuba.

llvcred By Hon. Bourkt, Cochran at
ch!ckering hall. New Yors, Friday night.
to two thousand cnbans, the occasion
being the anniversary OF the massacre
OF Cuban medical ssude'sss by Spanish
soldiers. Nosembert q. Isit:
Among otiser things, Mr.. Cochran
said:
II may not tonight speak the Ian
J suatyc OF diplomacy. brt / promise You
] sh.,ll speak the words OF truth. We
have como here 10 rcs.n.e a story OF
wrong and OF outrage. We have not
come merely 70 shed tears FOR the dead.
but TO take counsel over the future of
the living" ovid ~applause.l
Then hSiefy, but in words that
touched livery Cuban heart there, the
speaker rectted the story OF the execu-
ton of the eight students on hat menu
orable November q. ls11. he spoke the
word rebellion" Kisses drowned It;
Cochran never mentioned the word
again.
He told how the students Of the Uni
versity OF Havana had found an empty
wagon at the cemetery safe. abuttinS
on the college buildings. They drove
around the cemetery One picked a
rose. For this hoyish trick. he said.
eight human beings were tried for des-
ecrating the grave OF one. Castagnon.
The first tribunal refused TO pass SEN
tence OF death. Spanish injustice called
q second one to do its bidding, which 1t
did.
Eight were shot TO death. Nnny more
were imprisoned. Two alone were freed
They were not OF Cuban birth y
monument with one word craven on
Il = .Innocertes' ~Cnnccents) - now
keeps green their memory in the self
same cemetery in Havana.
Some OF the listeners were weeping.
Cochran was tender and pathetic as he
told of the student martyrs. III q
twinliling he was n roaring lio1.
The government" he shouted. that
does not use its functions 10 prevent
murder, but uses them TO p~erpetpate 1t,
Is a blot on civilization CTumu!t for
Two minutes.)
The moral law is as binding on ma
tions as on individuals. Thu law was
enacted In Eeavec before it was enact
ed on earth.
I'm this country such a punishment
would moi be meted out 60 any one for
such a crime. In this country We would
not permit the killing OF q dog foC such
q crime.
Spain is the one intolerable govern
mcnt of the nineteenth century. I'm not
cr:ticising the government OF Spain at
home. I'm crit!cisins the government
OF Spain in Cuba We have a dIEy TO
perform: a duty in the sight OF man.
a duty in the sight OF God. I du-y 10
civilization, a duty 10 ourselves
whether we have encouraged him or
not. the Cuban believes that this gov
eminent will extend a sympaihszinS
hand TO him in his struggle. In. CHS be-
lief he has taken up arms: it will be FOR
his emancipation or ii will be for his
determination. ovid a~pp,ause-)
.sAttitude Should be Denant.''
1T Is idle to say that this govern
ment is not responsible for the hope
that the Cuban cherishes. We 1--WE 1t TO
all the world that our attitude should
be defiant. Cheers and cries OF Cuba
Libre!") This, that the world may
know, that the Spania-d may know
the condition with which he must
reckon. II this government believes
that We should be idle spectators. then
why in Heavens name doesn't It say
so? prolonged a%ppiause.)
Don't prolong the butchery. Don't
give the Cuban hope. Let our attitude
be known at once"
I'VE have an interest in Cuba that
is not sentimental. It is wonderfully
fertile. Americans have settled there. We
have a great growing up
with Cuba. But IT'S government is
purely military. i gives us but I'm
perfect service. More han $3.50 0 600 Is
collected in taxes. only 10000 is spent
for the beneiit OF Cuba. The rest. gues
to supporting Spanish soldiers and
Spanish interests. The native. Cuban
is excluded from participation IN his
own government The Island Is q
waste whose dsso!ation Is only distri-
buted by the crack OF the assassin's
rifle or the cracking OF flames devour-
ing the monuments OF peaceful indus
THE people OF these United States
ask their government here and now 10
declare tina 1t must stop! (Cries OF
Yes, yes.O II our government deelares
thai 1t must stop, stop it SHALL! ovid
a%pplausc.)
NV friends. ] am not a believer sn
war. Capital invested il warshlps and
in armies Is capital wasted. But II The
possession OF a navy would isad the
President OF the United States To say
that In the lame OF the United States
his butchery must cease. then l would
say: That navy has done moe good In
the world tEal an! OlEST navy tAdt
ever existed in the wocld,' prolonged
applause.)
spain Would ~SoonTrrat.
81 believe that Spain would treat for
the independence of Cuba the day that
she feared the armed Intervention OF
the United States. I would never glory
In that flag tpointins to the stars and
strlpesl as on the day I could set. X
flying from the mastheads OF ten Amer
lean warships entering the harb0r OF
Havana. And. II an American admiral
on board should be just then inviting
General Weyler and the executioners
and the entire paraphernalia OF the
Spanish government 10 take n trip to
Barcelona and Cadiz, III wager the in
vi;ation would be accepted! daughter
and hisses.)
Entering the harbor OF Havana 70
demand the liberation OF Cuba, We
would be inviHcible. Entering that har-
Dor 10 annex Cuba. we would be on 4
level with Spain. Ours Is not a nation
of military aggression. The republic
has a n1blcr and more enduring mis-
sion to accomplish. This Is 10 accom-
plIsn The Industrial conquest OF the
worId!'' (App!ause.)
Cochran grew dispassionate again.
He was telling his ideas or Cuba's fu-
ture. He would haye st free first and
then give II a chance 10 govern Itself.
Not until 1t had measured its capacity
for self-Sorcrnrent would he consider
lis admission 10 the union. And then
only when II came as ar equal. request
Ing slstpTtnOd with our states,