The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-12-11

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dollar is spent, the last plantation Is
ruined and the last machette has fallen
| from the hands of the last man. The
| fighters there neither give nor ask for
| quarter. The warfare between chill
| and Peru. where hospital and ambu-
lance services were not needed after a
battle. will have it's counterpart to
some extent on the battlciirlds OF Cuba,
| The successful army viii not be bur
| dened with wounded enemies when
| few hours Of throat cutting will make
all quiet as the grave. IL Is ON the one
| hand war To win. and on the other a
| fight TO the death. The best blood nf
Andulasia, what is left Of Il. is deemed
not too sacred to be sacrificed. II need
he. In the contest with the patriots,
| the mixed races who are risking their
all for the liberty of Cuba.
| Cuba to-day is lost To Spain, The
| public proclamation of Spanish defeat
NAV not have been officially and de-
! fnitcly announced. but in truth and in
| fact the submission Of Cuba will never
| again be yielded az of old. The tribute
I OF s25. 600 to SiO.OOO00O will never
/ again replenish the treasury of Spain.
| The contests of 1856 may sadly Grip
/ pie Cuba, but they will ruin Spain.
| Were the struggle TO stop now. the in
come to Spain. with the enormous ex-
} actions she has always levied upon
\ Cuba. would be lost for some years.
/ Many thousands of young men of the
/ flower of Spanish manhood have been
| sacrificed to maintain the power of
/ dynasty. Many thousands of honest,
sincere and loyal boys have left their
homes in Spain, never TO return. Many
/ a mother weeps unavailing tears for
the lad who left her side year ago
] n IL. f.4H..
swamps of Cuba.
THE American people are coming TO
| the consideration of the Cuban situa-
ton as they already have In certain
other cases. as a great political Gues-
! tion-a continental question, II you
! please And, being a political continent
tai question, IL will he decided ulti-
mately by the continent whose inter-
I ests are most clearly involved. Geo
graphically considered Cuba cannot
belong to Spain. She Is in American
waters and politically Is entitled TO
statehood in the continent of American
7 parties Has the United States no IN
terest i'm our own trade and commerce
\ with an island from which we receive
fully 30 per cent. of the vast sugar
product and much the larger part OF
I all her other productions? The in
terests OF the United States, counting
/ all things passing between the coun-
/ tries, reach $100.0 900 annually, and
already this trade has been practically
wiped out. The Cuban exports of sugar
alone have fallen during the current
year from above a million tons To less
than a hundred thousand. The tobac-
co trade is dead. Neither VIII revive
until the war stops and the Spaniards
/ get out of Cuba.
"In tho nresent war. which has last =
ad about y months. Spain has wasted
more than n hundred millions and has
nut into the field 200. 900 men and boys.
/ believe A. to he the duty of the Unit
cd states 10 use its power as n nation
10 declare and TO maintain as a prero-
eatiye of right belonging generally 10
republicanism, and specifically to the
republIc. that no charnal house of ruin
shall be continued i'm the West Indian
waters whose waves break at our very
front gate any longer than the time IL
shall require To break IL up. and IL the
/ DUTY of suppressjrg this damning blot
ard erasing IL forever from sight shall
{ fall alone upon the United states. so
} be H. The effort cannot fail. We shall
/ nor wage any warfare for the acoujsi-
tion of territory for ourselves. We
D shall not claim Cuba as n reward for
. saving her from the slaughter. but we
! will not see that fair island turned
again to the mercies of wild beasts and
yultures of war whose only stimulus Is
gain. III other measures fail. we may
] consider the proprtety of "A fair pur-
chase of Cuba. That metbod has had
lis share of consideration under rre-
vious administrations. Il is not that
we want the territory but we mean
! that the trouble shall meet n lust sci
Element and conclusion"
Call followed CulIor,. addressing
hiuself TO his resolution introduced
Yesterday for the recognition of Cuban
/ jndependence. Call began NV havInp
the clerk read several official commu.
nications One by United States con.
I sui Brice of Matanyas. Cuba. 10 Assist
ant Secretary of state Rockhill stated
that the military governor had turncd
over oscar Cespedes to The civil an.
thorities. making profuse apologies in
/ the case The deuosition ~ cesnelee
taken in the Natanzas 1aiI was re.d
A letter To Mr.. Call added the informo
tiop that Hosea Consoles nm aged eli
izeu of Florida. was i'm a Cuban prisou
although no ilIst charge was apoIns,
him. MIR. Call referred to these com.
munjcations as shaving The axtont a,
Spain's arbitrary course in cuba
against the limited States citizens rbe
first duty OF the United States. he said
was to protect it's own citizens Ue
could see no reason for wubholdinp
immediate recognition of Cuba's inde.
pendence. The senator declared that
il was TO Spain's interest that tn,