Evening journal., 1897-11-20
ON SPAIN AND CUBA.
Hannis Taylor Delivers a Lee
ture at Cornell.
HIS IDEA OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY
Says That 1t Should Rest Upon n Nom
partisan Besls-President 1IcKinley's
Embarrassing Position-Congress
Should Recognize Cuba's Claim.

EmDarrnsstnR fOsition-A OnSreSs
Should Recognize Cuba's Claim.
ITHACA, N. Y, Nov. $3.50 large
were the crowds which tramped or rode |
last night up Great hill, leading from |
Ithaca city to Cornell university, that |
Barnes hall, where it had been an
nounced the address by the Hon. Han
mis- Taylor, ex- United States minister to
! Spain, on Cuba would be delivered. was
found inadequate to hold them, and the
meeting place had to be changed to IL
brary hall, where about 2O00 people
strictly I'm sympathy with the speaker
were accommodated.
After an introduction, in which Mr..
Taylor explained that his North Amer
lean Review article was based upon da-
Ia equally accessible to everybody. and
after adding that every duty due to the
administration had been first discharg
ed with punctilious fullness he pro-
ceeded to draw out the history of
Span's colonial system and its Dead
sea fruit" Through her selfish system
Of paternalism, commercial and politi.
cal, he said she had lost all her colonies
in the new world. except Cuba and
Puerto Rico, the first of which is now
about TO be lost in the same way. The
selfish economic policy of Spain pro-
duced in Cuba an economic crisis SO
acute as to make the struggle for bread
the real cause Of the present revolution.
Turning then TO the difficult position
of the president he said
81 regard the presidency of the Unit
ed States as one of the noblest of human
institutions and the Grst duty Of every
citizen is TO render perfect personal re-
spect to its incumbent. regardless. of
the question Of party. We should be
thankful that at this critical moment in
our diplomatic history the direction of
our foreign affairs is in the hands of
conservative, experienced and patriotic
chief magistrate, who by his conduct in
peace and war has won the right to the
confidence Of us ALL
"Our foreign policy should rest upon
a purely nonpartisan basis When the
moral dignity of the nation as a whole
is involved in it's relations with foreign
nations, all party differences should
stop with the shore. We should then
only remember that we are all Amer
leans. If we regard the presidents at
titude to Cuban affairs from that point
of view, we cannot fail to perceive that
he is now doing his entire patriotic
duty. His position must be one OF great
difficulty and embarrassment. The Sa-
gasta ministry certainly deserves at his
hands great consideration, At the
queens call they have undertaken TO
face a desperate situation-to revive
the fortunes of a fallen cause without
means. They have done what they
could to remove the more revolving as
, poets of a method of warfare that has
, shocked the world, and with that effort
, their power for good has come to al
end.
cit is no fault of theirs that Canovas
lost Cuba to Spain forever before they
came into power, by the substitution OF
p Weyler for Campos. That fatal steT
4 made reconciliation impossible. There
e fore. ali pending negotiations now look
p ig to that end are the veriest moon
- shine-hopeless illusions that should
I mislead no one But true as that is, i
- would be very hard for the president e
[ say so in so many words to the Sagast'
o ministry without grave offense. III
should not be expected to do so. But
he owes that kind Of courtesy to tn
present Spanish ministry, he owes Il
a greater degree perfect candor TO tn
congress of the United States.
For his own sake and for that of tn
= country he should not try to make then
y believe that he Is the victim OF ihu
:, tic their hands by assuming or assert
!, ing that pending negotiations give an
u hope Of a peaceful solution whatever
. Events are moving fast, and no mar
% not even the president can stop then
No real statesman ever tried to aVoi
a crisis by turning his back upon it q
by self deception. If the presider
r makes the fatal mistake Of attemptn
y longer to muzzle congress by putin
l. his imprimatur upon false hopes an
X empty illusions. before the ink is dr.
d upon his message events viii discred
he all his predictions. l, therefore do nc
* believe that he viii attempt policy
l. dangerous to his personal fortunes an
so contrary TO the business interests
the country that now demand a proml
and peaceful solution of crisis tns
hangs like a pail upon our reviVn
,, prosperity.
- "The president owes it to himself an
!. to the country TO submit the who
- question, without prejudice and in O
- impartial spirit to congress- the boo
Z, to which 1T rlghtfully and constitution
- ally belongs. Congress knows all Il
~ facts OF the case and can deal with the
- without any diplomatic embarrassment
whatever 1t can recognize belligerenc
or IL may cut the gordian knot once al
for all by a prompt recognition OF u
- ban independence"
n Mr.. Taylcr concluded by saying;
CT Let congress but speak the final al
IL emphatic ccognition-and in
IL DAYS the long and bloody tragedy W
si- be over the whole Christian world W
ce rejoice and say Amen Spain will
rs rescued from an impossible situate
there will be no war with the UniI
States, and Cuba viii be free"
~ Carlisle Capitalist Dead.
an CARLISLE. Pa, Nov. 20.-J. Herm.