The evening times., 1897-05-26
Cuban SympathizerS TO Meet at
Columbia Theater on Sunday.
HENRY MARTINS COMMENTS
WOrkingmen Throughout the Broad
Domain of America Held That Men
Fighting for Liberty In Their Nn-
tive Land Should at Least ,Iave
Equai Chances With OppressOrs.

! alter under the auspices of District Assem-
bly,, No. 66, Knights OF Labor, and the
local Federation, are progressing smoothly
and rapidly The local leaders are deeply
| Interested ia the subject, and no doubt
there will be great outpouring of the rank
and file Of organized Labor on that occa-
sion. Besides the members OF Orga niHed
labor ali other friends of the cause are
invited, and will no doubt be much in evil
dence.
These chiefly interested in the Success
OF the meeting were actively engaged yes
| terday in perfecting details of arrange
Inents, but it is not probable that the pre-
gram viii be announced until Friday
| morning.
At knights OF Labor headquarters there
is a deep interest taken in tie success OF
the meeting, and all that can Will be done
in that quarter 20 make il grand success
| The Knights OF Labor, it will be rcruenl-
bered, we've among the first OF the o.
EauZed national bodies 10 take CoguiLance
| of the situation in Cuba, and al the general
| assembly OF the order, which convened i'll
! this city in 1895, the following resolution,
! offered by Michael ]. Bishop, then worthy
foreman, was unanimously adopted:
"Wteras. Tie Cuhans are at present en-
! gagged in struggle, to achieve their ill
dependence, against the minions of an alien
! and tyrancal government; and,
Whereas, The developments Of She con.
| test have made it obvious that the native
| forces cannot possibly be subdued iii Il
/ reasonable time, and that a further con
! tinuaCion of the present status will only
! tend TO deepen the general misery all over
the Island of Cuba; and,
Whereas We, as the citizens of the
/ foremost repdblic in the world, should at
! .easl he willing to that all men Fighting
| Hor the liberty of the land of their nativity
| and their own delverance from the gra sp
of an Oppressnr, should have a fair and
| equal chance to meet their opponents in
! open warfare: therefore, lie il
Resolved, That the General A ssemhly Of
4 the Knights OF Labor, representing every
section of the continent, and all conditions
of humanity, does hereby declare itself
in favor of the recognition Of the Cubans
as belligercnts"
MT Henry Martin, a member Of the
general executive board of the Knights OF
Labor in speaking of the attitude of the
order 10 Cuba said yesterday:
From the very beginning of the strug-
gle for independence tht people of Cuba
have had the earnest sympathy of all
Knights OF Labor The Washington SEES
sion OF onr General Assembly in 1895
adopted resolutions OF sympathy for the
Cuban cause, and our local and district
assemblies in all parts of the United
IL,
promoting agitation in favor of Cuban
liberty.
The knights Of Labor believe most
eInphatically that the United States Sho1ld
recognize Cuban belligerency and inle-
pendence, and should long ago have sent
ships and soldiers if necessary to Cuba IN
sufficient force to help the CubanS win
their freedom at the Garlic st possible mo
ment.
Such a course would be the merciful
and pacific one to take. 1t would, we
believe, !Ic hest for o., spanish people, as
well a s the CubanS. 1t would save blood
and treasure on both sides and be a formal
notice t. other old world monarchies hat
the quicker they let go their hold on my
part of the western hemisphere, the better
for them.
THE Spanish monarchy has no shadow
Of a right to hold the liberty-loving peo-
pie OF the Antilles in SlaviSh ubie"rion
to their old world despotism. Spain should
be stopped at once in her career Of muir
der aud rapine in Cuba; and She would
have been stopped long ago had it not been
for the fact that the Government OF The
United states as it stands today, AMI las
stood for the past twenty years, is much
more of monarchy than a republic
That same force and influence in Amarf
can affairs which has held the United States
Government back for thel two yea Is from
extending a helping hand to the cause of
liberty in Cuba in defiance Of the wish Of
nIne-tenths of the American people, is the
influence of a stony hearted plutocrlcy
which holds millions of Americans in al
most slayish Suhjection to the power of
its money This Eoneyed oligarchy Of
America has nothing but hatred for the
cause of human liberty, whether in the
island OF Cuba or on the continentof Am2ri-
ca
That clique of bondholders who have
conspired for years to reduce millions OF
American citizens co beggary ard thou
sands of American women and children TO
with tender human sympathy for the
butchered babes and ravished women uf
Cuba. This merciless clique of money
kings in the United States have a mighty
grip On the machinery of our Government
when :hey can compel a President and Il
House of Representatives to defy the ex-
pressed wish of the Whole people of the na-
ton.
The citizens Of every Congressional Gis-
trict, however, should remember that the
Representative from their district is The
servant OF their Will, and they should let
him know by telegraph and by letter that
the hour for action on Cuba case has come
and that they will not tolerate further .le-
lay. whether Speaker Reed likes it OF not
The Speaker SAYS he is the servant of
the House. Very well; the House is the
servant of the people. Let the people i'll
every town and city speak out and tell the
Congressmen what they want them to do,
and 90 it quickly. The blood Of fresh vic
tins to weyler'scruclty cries to heaven with
every day that passes.
''Shall America stand longer idle? Shall |
the shouts of her batting patriots and the |
cries OF her starving, tortured women and |
children plead with us in vain for the cause |
of Cuta? Let every citizen answer quick |
with a letter to his Congressman and the |
President. Let American citizens speak |
strong enough now to be heard in Havana |
and Madrid as well as Washington"
The following resolutions were adopted |
at the meeting of the Cuban League last /