River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-27
Relief Bill signed.
CHARGES HYPOCRISY.
weyler Looks Upon Relief Measure
n n Piece of ImpcrtInencc.


New York. May PA dispatch to
the Journal from Cienfuegos, Cuba,
saws: In an interview Capt. Gen. Wey-
Ter, upon his arrival here from Placetas,
in reference 10 Senator Morgan's Cuban
resolution said:
IT am not surprised at the action thus
far taken, nor shall / be II the house con-
ours in the senate resolution and sends 1t
20 the president. Your jingoes are in tho
saddle and evidently bent upon forcing the
country in some foreign complications in
order to distract attention from the fast
/ approaching internal crisis
1.-THE few scattering bands of Cuban
dynamlters. railroad wreckers, horse and
cattle thieves. plantation burners and
highwaymen now I'm the field here, who
hold no port and possess no seat OF civil
government. have no right to expect recog-
milton. Such distinction at President Nc
Kinley's hands, issued In the face Of my
own proclamation officially declaring the
greater part of the island to be already
pacified. would hold the Washington ex-
ecutiye up TO the ridicule of European pow
! ers and prompt healthy outburst of SYM
pathy for he Spanish cause, especially
/ from neighboring old world governments
also possessing colonies in the West Ilates.
I'm brief, recognition may AID the CUBAN
I ianta In placing few bonds In the United
/ States. but viii at the same time assure the
I successful issue of our proposed new Span
/ ish loan in Paris, London and Vienna and
4 ems BILE us to carry on the war with re-
newed vigor.
VIII he Glad of RecoEnition.
| Personally, / shall be glad If recogni-
/ ton comes, our position will then be more
clearly defined. II win work a virtual
/ abrogation or our special treaty with the
VI I'd States, place Yankees residing In
/ Cuba in an identical position before the
/ courts with other foreign residents, and
/ shall be troubled less by the constant COM
! plants and often ridiculous demands from
| American consuls.
1T would also relieve the Spanish gov
eminent of all responsibility for the de-
struction of foreign property not actually
within the line of Spanish defenses and
/ further simplify matters by assuring us
the right to board and search American
/ vessels whenever suspected.
Calls is Hypocrites.
For one / shall heartily rejoice that the
/ emptiness and hypocrisy of the United
! States governments reiterated professions
1 of friendship shall be finally unmasked. /
/ have always had little confidence I'm the
/ sincerity of its assertions. Each new
/ declaration from Washington calculated to
throw our marine officials engaged in pa
I trolling the Cuban coast off their guard, has
Invariably been followed by the departure
l Of some new Cuban 1libuster from an
I American port with arms and munitions
1 for our enemy"
Continuing, the captain general ex-
pressed delight at the proposition to
/ have consuls here to furnish free trans
4 portation to all Americans who desire
I to return to the United States, but he
said he considered the plan to distrib-
ute food TO resident Americans as an
4 indirect and unjustified attempt to in
| terfere in local affairs.