The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-18
nurses in particular could reach Cuba, as
1t is believed that there are fully a dozen
nurses here who are willing to go.
AIM OF THE CUBAN LEAGUE.
President Allan Sets 1t Forth in an
Address to the Public.

Address to the Public.
New York. Dec. 17.-Col. Ethan Allan,
President of the Cuban League of the Uni
ted States, which was organized the other
evening by a number of prominent New
Workers at the Fifth Avenue hotel, issued
an address to the public to-day, in which
he sets forth the principles and purposes
OF the organization. The address, after
reviewing the struggle in Cuba, from it's
inception to the present time, says:
We are charged before the world with
impotency, in not protecting our own citi-
zens against Spanish violence on Cuban
soil, and in hushing our indignation at
unnumbered cruelties in Cuba while mill
ions of American capital there invested
are gradually disappearing, which would
be saved by the immediate intervention of
this government.
Fellow citizens, it is due to ourselves
as well as to Cuba, that this record should
be reversed. This has not been our rec
ord hitherto, 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 people. We do not pro-
pose, nor is it necessary to violate 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 therefore can
not shield ourselves behind statutory
phraseology from the odium of not fulfill
ing our natural obligations toward a peo-
pie struggling to be free. Let us so speak
that the executive of this nation, and our
representatives in congress shall recognize
indappndnnna nd aI will he ua1
We are not required to raise battalions of
men nor to furnish ships of war; but We
are called upon to declare that the heart
of this nation is with the oppressed Cubans,
and then with her independence acknowl-
edged, her unarmed heroes may obtain
from us as required, the equipments Of
war, as Spain has done heretofore, and
thus we blaze the way for a final victory
as surely to follow as in the end right tri-
umphs over wrong.
while we willingly give our sympathy
in words we should remember that there
are times when an empty hand carries
no favor. Such a time is the present,
when the Cubans stand in need of every
necessary of life and in exhaustive bat
ties, they must, of course, be drained Of
resources which our people should sup
ply. Arms and ammunition, more than
these, food for hungry troops and people,
with medicines for their sick and wound
ed, may be shipped to insurgent ports
with full permission of our statutes, since,
with no formal blockade against us, we
may as freely traffic there as with the
ports of continental Spain. To furnish
these things, which may legally be done,
money becomes literally the sinews of
| war. The league asks for subscriptions
| throughout the United States in aid of the
patriots, which may be sent to Hon. Oar
win R. James, the treasurer, at 2OS Broad
way, New York city.
'The Cuban League of the United
| States is organized to give practical con-
| solidation to the sentiment of American
citizens and the moral support of the
same in securing to Cuba by all legal
means, the inalienable right of self-gov-
| ernment. 1t is proposed to so arouse pub
lie sympathy by mass meetings and
| through the press, that recognition as an
independent state shall be secured to the
patriots.
'"The league will hold grand mass
meeting in Cooper Union in the city of
! New York on Monday, Dec. q. 1t is de-
| sired that branch organizations be formed
| throughout the country and that meetings
| be held in other prominent cities of the
| nations. Friends, who may read this ad-
dress, will assist if they organize at once,
and report progress to the secretary
| Francis Wayland Glen, No. 1872 Nassau
! street New York city. We earnestly re-
quest the cooperation of all men and wo-
| men in this cause.
I'm grateful recollection of those who
| crossed the ocean to help our fathers q
| century ago, let us do now what is nee
essary to encourage those who are repeat
| ing the story of Washington and his COM
patriots. From the north and from the
| south. the east and the west, let one uni
| ted voice proclaim Independence for tnc
| patriots, and young Cuba, powerful be-
| cause of this shall scourge the assailant
| from her soil, and take her place with Us
| in the family of republics
ETHAN Allan, President.
New York, Dec. II, 1895.
Executive Committee: Paul Dana,
| John Jacob Astor, Gen. Daniel Buttertield,
Erwin Wardman, Frank B. Carpenter,
Frederick d. Grant, John D.. Kelly, John
| c. Mcclure, r. c. Alexander, Constant A.
Andrews, Walter s. Logan, Thomas e..
| Stewart.
Francis wayland' Glen, Secretary"