Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-03-27
Our Duty to Cuba is to Give
her Freedom
We - and as spain's Jaiier-Either
We should Afford Relief TO the OPP
pressed or Cease Our Objections 20
Her Transfer TO a Civilized Power
House Insists ON Hts Cuban BesO-
IuIions and Appoints COnferees.

lacement of the Cuban resolutions had
no apparent effect in diminishing the
attendance of the senate galleries today,
as it was expected the Mills resolution
proposing the use of the army and navy
in taking possession of Cuba and hold
ing it until the people had established
local self-government would occasion
further debate.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Hoar was
adopted, requesting the president to
transmit to the senate all dispatches, cor
respon,ience, etc., from November S,
1873, to 1878, concerning the pacifcation
of the pending conflict in Cuba.
Mr.. Mills was recognized at this point
in support of the Cuban resolution in
troduced by him yesterday. He said the
resolutions heretofore before the senate
wert steps in the right direction, but
very short steps. The people of Cuba
had far greater claims on the United
States than the mere recognition of the
beligerency. If Ireland struck for lib
erty today, the hearts of the American
people would beat in sympathy; and so
if Poland or Hungary asserted the right
of liberty. But the United States has
much closer relations with Cuba than
with Ireland or Poland or Hungary, for
it was part of the western hemisphere,
over which the Monroe doctrine ex-
tended the influence of this country
Mr.. Mills declared the Monroe doctrine
was law of protection, and as such
God was the author of it. 1t was me
same right of self-protection which an
individual exercises in abating a nui-
sance or destroying powder-house near
his premises.
Jefferson had used plain words in
threatening to join England and sweep
the French fleets from the seas if France
persisted in holding the mouth of the
Mississippi river. The same spirit had
brought forth President Clevelands
Venezuelan message.
Cuba stood as the key to the gulf, and
our unvarying policy, said Mr.. Mills,
has been to resist any transfer of Cuba
to an other monarchy. The United States
had stood by as a taller ard prevented
Cuba from going to France or England. |
And, if we insisted in keeping Cuba in |
the possession of Spain, was it not re
moral obligation of the United States to
see that Spain gave ~uba fair govern
ment, to see that the hell of Spanish |
.,espotism was lifted from the Cuban
people?
The day will come, said M. Mills,
when the American conscience will be |
aroused to its guilt in permitting the op-
preston of Cuba, and when that con
sciousness comes, the American people
will fill this chamber with senators who
will stop that oppression. The senator
read of atrocities attributed to General
Weyler, and added: This is the work
of the atrocious scoundreJ He could
not be in Cuba today if the United States
would draw her sword. How the cheeks
of our American women must be suf-
fused; how our children must blush, to
know that this government stands idly
by while Spain, with the KEYS of her
dungeons dangling at her side, permits
such an atrocious villain to raise his
hand against defenceless women"
The protection which Spain gave to
Cuba was the protection which the hawk
gives to the dove Cuba cries to us
Deliver US from these Monsters but
We stand meekly, serving only as
'pains jailer In the senator's own
state of Texas, they had, he said, drunk
If the dregs of Spanish brutality. He /
elated the circumstance of the snnini- i
alton of Santa Annals forces on Texas c
oil, and reviewed the bloodiness of the @
Virginius" affairs. To the shame Of the O
government we had permitted the "Vir- Z
inius" atrocity to stand almost without Y
eparation. For fifty-three people butch a
red by Spain while rightfully claiming II
he protection of the United States, after v
diplomatic spondence of years, q
pain paid $1,000.
Mr.. Stewart asked if S. anish bonds d
'ere not potent factor in resisting in il
srvention. b
Mr.. Mills replied that there was some v
hing beneath the surface; he did not +,
now what this mysterious force was,
ut ne felt that it existed. He did not II
now how sugar stocks would be affected a,
y action on the part of the United