The Penn's Grove record., 1897-02-05
THE CUBAN QUESTION.

=. OONtTlH1tDb 10 tHo i"N'
pendenee of Cuba from Spanish tyran
ny. Sixty thousand petitions were sen
out, nearly all OF which have been col
Iected, With more than 100000 sigma
lures. Among the signatures may D
found those of nearly all the member
of the legislatures of nearly all tn
States in the Union, besides othe
prominent local officials. The petl
lions will be wound m roller or wheel
which has been made for the purpose
SO that it may be readily drawn outant
the names counted. 1t is designed lik'
the pilot wheel of a ship. 1t stand'
about four feet high and is surmountec
with gold. When the Cuban resolu
tions, calling for the recognition OF TIT
independence of Cuba is before the U,
S. Senate, and its passage is urged,
delegation of men from New York
headed by Franz Mayor, president o.
the American Friends oil Cuba, viii
present the monster petition in favor
of the resolutions.
But the petition will bear little weight
and the resolutions is not likely to pass
Congress, and if it does President CieVe'
land, through Secretary of State Olne!,
has said lie would not acknowledge it
nor recognize that Congress, nor any
one else, has any say i'll the matter.
Why? Because the protection OF prop
erty rights count more than human
rights with the money power whose
tool he is, and John Sherman, who Will
succeed Mr.. Olney, says he will carry
out the same policy.
Americans own about S5O,0O0,OOO
worth property, some being large sugar
plantations, in Cuba, and look to Spain
for its protection. If this county re-
cognizes Cuban Independence, human
rights, Spain will destroy or coniiscate
this, because it is feared the Cubans
can not protect much of it.
Fred U. Adams, the press correspond
ent, who reported all of MI. BTyan's
speeches for him, in the January num-
Der of New Occasions, a monthly maya.
zine devoted to financial and social pro-
gress tersely puts the reasons why Gu
ban independence will not be recognlz.-
ed as follows.
There are some misguided people in
this country who imagine that the Uni
ted States is to extend a helping hand
to the struggling people OF Cuba. They
are not posted. They are not in touch
with the spirit Of ''our American insti-
tutions." They do not understand
what is demanded by Jul business in
terests:n
The foolish people who are talking
about freeing Cuba are not practical.
They see ouly one side Of the question.
They know that the butcher Weyl lei
and his hired assaslus are toT.uIing and
muTderiug the men Of Cuba aud insult
ing aud rayislliug the women Of that
far isle. They know that the Cubans
are maniuliy fighting for what we
fought for 120 years ago, and they read
that France helped US as against the
British and their hired Hessians. And
their blood bOils AID The spirit OF pa
triOtism stiTs in their veins.
But the United States will not help
Cuba 50 long n Wall Street has any.
thing to say about 1t. You have not
heard of any patriotic outburst from
the New York Stock Exchange, have
your
We do not go to war now adays, you
know, over such foolish things as right
and wrong. Weyler is down in Cuba
on a matter of business. He is simply
the agent of a collecting rs adjustment.
Spain owes the Rothschilds and other
money-lendiag Jews many millions of
dollars, and Cuba has been assessed a
good share of that debt. The patriots
of Cuba are nothing but ''repudiation
ists," as We called them in the last
campaign. They are not in favor of
''honest money" They are attempt
ing TO evade a debt which some one
fastened on them.
Now, Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan is the
American agent of the huthschiIds and
he will tell you, if you ask him, that
the ''hard, common sense of the bust.
ness community is opposed to taking
any part in The Cuban controversy
Aud what Mr.. Morgan says has some
influence with Mr.. Cleveland. Bes des
Mr.. Morgan just loaned us some $780,.
600, 900, and as he has a mortgage on
the country he should be allowed 10
manage his own property as he sees
best.
Then again, all this talk about stop
ping the butchery in Cuba has a bad eff
feet on the stock market. A year ago
Mr.. Cleveland had the temerity to ask
England to keep her hands off Venezue-
la, and stocks went down and some of
our best citizens lost money. National
honor is all right when il does not III.
terfere with business, and the common
people, knowing nothing about bust.
ness, must refrain from INDUCING in
untimely patriotism. What IS the muir
der of Maceo under a flag of truce AS
compared with a fall of four points in
sugar trust stOckp On, shoTt.sighted
aud ignorant people, will you ever un
derstand the true spirit OF modern
American mstitutioDsr
These same people are disturbed about
the massacre Ut the Almeniaus. What
d" they know about ihe Armenian quts.
tiuup In k, Ia, borrowed mitlIoLsu;