Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-12-19
THE CARNAGE GOES ON
WHILE THE U. S. WAITS FOR DE-
VELOPMENTS IN CUBA.
Trying Situation Requires Prompt
Action to Save Thousands of
Innocent People.

day.
The house concurrent resolution for llol
iday adjournment from December % tt
January was agreed to.
Senator Morgan presented the creden
tails of E. w. Pettus as senator from
Alabama for the term beginning March 4
Senator Allen offered a resolution for /;
committee of nine senators ION the use
of money in the election" The resolu-
ton requests the committee to inquire
whether such expenditures We're corrup.
excessive, illegitimate or unlawful, anG
ascertain to what extent the owners OF
silver or gold mines, bankers, corpora
TONS and mlllionaires made contributions
Morgan on Cuba.
Senator Morgan then took the floor and
made a o-Cuban speech. He said:
Il will contine my remarks to facts
stated in the recent annual message Of
the president and secretary Of state. |
am not able to discover that the presi-
dent made any specific recommendations
or indications as to any action he deems
proper or eXpedient for congress to take
with reference to Spain or Cuba; nor that
he had Indicated any course except a
STILL patient waiting that the executive
proposed to make. Congress, left to its
own initiative must assume the respon-
sibility on the matter of most serious
gravity.
Congress must give to the statements
of the president unhesltating acceptance
as to matters that We're committed by
the explanation to his special charges.
When he undertakes to state the facts
that affect our relations with other pow
ers, we must accept these facts unless
the disproof is overpowerng.
This message, therefore. is one of the
most important as a statement of the
leading facts and conclusions that bear
upon our duties in respect to the conflict
of arms which has ragged for over Two
years in the island of Cuba, and it has
the support of nearly all American belief.
l have not heard that Spain controverts
any statement of the president in his;
message The evidence that comes from
private sources relative to the condition
of Cuba and the horrors of persecution.
rapine and determination visited upon
the people of Cuba, admits of no doubt
as to its credibility. Yet it presents pic
lures SO incredibly inhuman and SO dis
graceful to the civilization of this age
that it stunts the mind into the belief
that such things can be true
AS Senator Morgan proceeded the gal
leries filled, and his words were followed
with close attention by the senators and
the large number of spectators.
Prompt Action Necessary.
Senator Morgan went on to speak Of
the trying situation which required
prompt action to save thousands of inno-
cent people from cruel and deliberate
butchery. The wholesale massacres OF
Spain We're no surprise to the senator,
who had anticipated it.
IF war with the United States is necas-
sary to reconcile the Spanish people to tie
loss Of Cuba by foreign conquest said
Senator Morgan, we shall be compelled o
meet that emergency. If the destruction
of Cuba is enough to satisfy the popular
sentiment of revenge, we can avoid war
with Spain by remaining inactive while
our own people are being ruined or slauSn-
tered along with the Cuban5. If we mean
to take any action towards stopping the
war Of annihlation and determination, we
have no time to lose
Senator Morgan spoke Of the resolution
Of congress at the last session, which, he
said, gave to the president the choice of
concurrng with the policy Of congress OF
delaying. The president chose delay. The
war has continued until it has reached the
final and desperate stage of a war of iev
astation and determination, with the peo-
pie Of Cuba as a prey to those who nave
set aside the usual honorable usages of
warfare and have become robbers, cut
throats, assassns, ravishers and pirates.
of ri, n
clared, will be- found to have been au-
thetically stated by our government when
the seals Of secrecy are broken and are
brought to the knowledge Of our people.
Forced to War.
I'VE are forced to war to put an end to
the saturnalia Of blood and fire." he aid.
Congress had reason to regret the mac
ton of the president. a firm declara ton
that the conflict in Cuba had reached the
stage Of open, public war would have ad-
monished Spain that the United States at
least would hold her accountable for the
observance of the rules of civilized var
fare.
The senator complained bitterly Of the
interference of the supposed business in
tcrests to prevent the government from
ending "the horrid and brutal purpose OF
infuriated men,
Senator Morgan spoke Of the necessity
OF protecting our citizens abroad. Re-
fcrring to Turkey, he expressed the hope
that the policy of this government would
not be relaxed and that we would not
much longer hear of these Turkish Of
fenses against humanity. The senator as
serted that our citizens in Cuba have
rights under the laws which all nations
will force in spite of opposition, even if
the president of the United States should
obpose them. He would give these laws
full force and effect.
Our people were not content said
Senator Morgan, "to suffer these wrongs
within earshot of our frontier and to pile
uD claims of petitions and proofs to be
brought before Spain in the endless pal
aver of diplomatic correspondence
While we know that wrongs have been
dcne to our people and other wrongs are
threatened, our government Is In the
most humiliatng state of innocuous de-
suetude if it interposes no helping hand
to the sufferers and refuses to forbid
the further devastation and death that
a cruel government is now inficting upon
them.
The senator said he foresaw that the
time was near at hand when the final
stand Of the United States must be TAX
en-. 1t was foreshadoWed by the message
anG the moment might come at any time
that the president would take definite
and final stand.
When this came the senator would fol-
low the colors of the president and II 1t
meant war; would any American hesitate
to respond?
There was no alternative between fur
ther humiIiating situations and war.
Duty Is Plain.
In conclusion the senator said: In
this condition of affairs to establish per-
manent peace in Cuba and permit secur-
ity for our own people while the Spanish
monarchy is dominant in that island, we
have no alternative left US but the single
choice between the continuous repetition
of evils portrayed in the message Of the
president or bad, humiliating and cruel
delay on our part, while rapine and de-
struction are rampant in Cuba, in the