Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-08
ellis II HEARTLESS.
Presidents Message Raises Ire
CT Hanni5 Taylor.
sAys IT Is ALL A CONSPIRACY.

sAIS 1T IL ALI A CONSPIRACY.
He Declares the President and Speaker
H., d. II" II. says In.t"ds to Defend
4.- ey Resolution, Are
fta.uea with spain Against the nbh"s.
iEoeI 2. Ala. Dec. Sex Minister
TO vain Ranuis Taylor has written
cri ,cism of the Cuban feature of the
pr ident's message. IN which he says:
lSutting aside Ia. irrelevant matter
by which it is numbered the sub
stap.e Of the only recommendation
nc Sly iaade by the executive to con-
gress upUn that subject is that this gov
eminent cannot venture to do anything
to put an esid to the inhuman strife
which during the last three years has
reduced the island almost to a desert,
because there il a prospect of settle
mtnt between the combatants upon the
basis of so called plan of autonomy
late INT forth by the Sagasta min
ist-y
believe congress should firmly and
sc rnfully reject such policy OF Irreso-
lut on and non-aetlOn because the as
sumption upon which it is founded is
an empty illusion. The vital question
at issue has not been touched by the
revolutionary effort of Sagasta to end
the war by means of craftily lncom-
plete proposition that carrles with it no
constitutional guarantee whatever. All
WHO are familiar with the Spanish leg
islaUion know that q valid grant OF an
autonomous colonial system that in
wolves not only the repeal OF all exist
ing laws upon that subject, but also the
transfer of the control of large part of
the national revenues OF Spain to CO.
lonial legislature cannot be made ex-
cepU by an act passed by both houses of
tho cortes and approved by the queen
regent. The effort just made to secure
that result by mere royal decree, un-
supported by parliamentary action. has.
therefore, been justly denied by Rome
70 RobiedO, late minister of justice, as
a purely revolutionary proceeding III
defiance of the legi. lation.
'.At the end of three years of whole
sale destruction, provoked by Spain
through unprecedented political and
economic oppression that has brought
death and famine to hundreds of thou
sanns, the Spanish crown at last con-
fesses the Cubans are right and their
wrongs should now be redressed by
generous ana genuine grant of home
rule When the proffered scheme is
examined, il is found to be not only in
definite and illegal. but absolutely
wanting in S ncerity upon the two vital
points at issuance. such proposal has
been eAtorea by the results of
struggle thar has so completely broken
the military and financial power of
Strain that conquest Of the island is
now hope G, s. After spending $780,
OOo. 900 and after sending over the sea
300,t00 soldiers. Spain has fighting
force in the island Of less than 10000.
while the revolutionary army now in
possession of the greater part of the
country numbers about so, 900.
Who has the right to say that the
heroic men who have maintained in
the Meniguas of Cura such a conflict
against such odds are not capable of
self government? Who will say that
all the fruits that they have won
tI3r agh death by sword and famine
sEp Il. III the hGar of victory, be sur
r. neced for an empty ham which
means only now bondage under their
old and tiless oppressors?
sAnd yet this heartless, selfish mes.
sage has not one word OF ENCOURAGE
ment or sympathy for this suffering
people now dying and starving by
thousands at our very doors. In 1T
thew are contemporary denominated
as no better than their prosecutors.
Fortunately for the honor of this gen.
erous Christian nation, this message,
with cool and serene egotism, admits
that it does not represent the senti-
ments of the American people as ex-
pressed by congress q year ago in the
Joint resolutions which both houses de
clared state Of war in Cuba and that
it should be SO recognized by this gov
eminent.
Congress is politely told to attend
to its business that il the recognition
of belligerency shall become necessary
in the future the executive power will
act without congressional interference.
1t is generally understood that this de-
iberate conspiracy to thwart the will
of the nation is to be carried out
through an appeal TO the speaker of
the house of representatives, who is ex-
pected to so manipulate its rules as to
prevent the passage of the pending bel
ligerency resolution, which the senate
has already approved. In other words,
the tyranny of the speakership in the
house is to be SO used in behalf of
Spanish tyranny in Cuba as to prevent