The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-15
WAR 7ALK GROWING.
Mills of Texas in Favor of lmme-
date Action.
SENATOR WOULD AID CUBANs.

He Says the United States Is Responsible
for Spanish Rule-The Entire Country
Aroused by the Cowardiy Assassination
of the Cuban Patriot Offers of Assist
ance from Acknowledgements of the AT.
fair Not Cleared Up.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Senator Mills
of Texas, member of the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations, said when
he read the newspaper accounts of the
assassination Of Maceo, the Cuban pat
riot leader:
1T Is the most horribly brutal thing
have ever heard of. and in my judg-
ment the president of the United States
ought to call upon the Spanish govern
ment for an encounting. If this story
of Maceo's assassination be true the
Spanish minister should be given his
passports at once and we should bold
ly go to the help of this suffering peo-
pie.
mo man can deny it is the United
States that holds Cuba in vassalage to
Spain. How proud we must be as Amer
lean citizens to stand guard over the
atrocious villain Weyler in his work of
desolation and death. who would not
be there today if the United States
would draw her sword, as it is her duty
to do! This thing should stop. 1t should
stop now: today, not next week. We
should make the demand upon Spain
and then enforce that demand with the
whole military and naval strength of
the nation"
Entire Country Is Aroused.
The headquarters of the Cuban lega-
tiOn i'm this city was the center of in
terest to a number of callers, who had
come TO express to Senior Quesada their
sorrow at the death of General Maceo
and to offer their sympathy and in some
cases help for the Cuban cause. These
callers included number of congress
men and two senators, whose names the
Cuban representative declined to dis
close, but who told him of their desire
to see some action by congress that
would be of assistance to the insur-
gents. Senior Quesada says that he has
received during the last few days about
| fifty letters, many of which come from
persons and organizations, Offering to
send men to assist the Cubans in fight
| ing for liberty. Among the states and
cities represented i'm these letters are
| Washington, Wyoming, Kansas, Indf-
| annapolis, Buffalo, Evansville, Ind, and
Waterbury, Conn. Responsive to these
letters Senior Quesada authorizes his
| former statement that the Cubans have
enough men and leaders to gain the
cause for which they are fighting.
| Off,ers of Assistance.
They can avail themselves of $4,000
men and more, If necessary, but what
they need is arms and ammunition and
medicine for the sick and wounded. II
is said offers of assistance from abroad
have been received. The Paris agent
of the junta says that not only the Gu
bans but the French people, after hear
ing of the assassination and death OF
Maceo, are collecting all they can tc
send an expedition, to be called the
Expedition of General Maceo, to Gu
ba. Mr.. Quesada states that from Sar
Domingo and Mexico also came assur'
ances of contributions to the cause
while the workingmen and merchants Of
| Tampa. Fla, say they will give no
only 10 per cent. Of their earnings week
ly. but will work three Sundays in ev
cry month in order to give their wage!
for free Cuba. The agent at Jackson
Vile, Fla, wires that the people cal
be counted on for a hundred rifles.