Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-10
=cUBA's CAUSE SET FORTH.
Tho RsvOlutiOnists Confident of Ultl-
mate Success.

mate Success.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Gonzalo de
Quesada, charge d'affaires of the Gu
ban republic here, gives out the fol-
lowing signed statement:
The Cuban legation in this country
will strive during the session of con-
gress to continue and bring to decis-
i've end the labors which 1t initiated
last year. A concurrent resolution,
substantially declaring the belligeren-
cy of the Cuban patriots and recon-
mending that the good off ces Of the
United States should be directed to-
ward obtaining the independence of
Cuba was passed then, and in three
test votes-two in the house and one
in the senate-the unanimous senti-
ment Of the American people was ex-
pressed in no unmistakable terms.
Since then the Cubans have become
every day stronger. Notwithstanding
zoe, 900 men sent by Spain, the Cubans
occupy the interior, have captured inn
portant towns and even seaports.
Thousands of arms and several pieces
Of artillery have been sent, enabling
the army of liberation to operate from
Point Maisi to Cape San Antonio.
"We can claim that Cuba is free to-
day. We can assert that Spain is try
ing unsuccessfully to reconquer Cuba.
She is attempting to exterminate a
people, not to subdue revolution.
Our civil government, supreme in
three-fourths of the island, our COM
plete military organization, our hui
manity to the vanquished foe, are
proofs of the existence of response
BILE, determined, rising nationality,
where there was yesterday an OPP
pressed colony This nationality can
not be crushed even by the landing of
new European armies on territory
over which the Monroe doctrine is per-
fectly applicable. With as much rea-
son as when the French troops were
made to withdraw from Mexico can
the United States urge the evacuation
of Cuba by Spanish armies or request
that Spain shall fight her battle with
the troops she has already on this side
of the ocean.
1.-THE United States, in justice to
Americanism, has seen fit to settle the
boundary between British colony and
a sister republic. With more justice
and in matter entailing the highest
of American principles-liberty-th
United States can end this war Of in
vasion and subjugation carried on by
the Spanish monarchy Against what
was her exploited colony of Cuba.
The United States has precedents and
reasons for such action. The interests
Of her citizens are involved; the Amer
lean people insist that it shall be done
the facts warrant it; humanity clamors
for it,
Gas to the Cubans, we shall continue
to affirm our independence with our
armies in the field; we shall send to
our brethren, without violating any
laws and patiently overcoming I'M
justifable obstacles put in our way,
the elements of war; we shall present
the truth to the press and opinion OF
the country-press and opinion which
cannot be bought by gold, nor in
fluenced by power; we shall point to
the Indifference of the republican
world our devastated fields, our ruined
industries, our massacred non-com'
batants, the hundreds of victims OF
African penal colonies, the thousands
of families destitute, banished, dying
of hunger and cold; we shall appeal
not for mercy, but for fair play.