The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-26
FOR BELLIGERENT RIGHTS.

Col. Ethan Allen, treasurer of the Cuban
League of the United States has issued an
address, in which he says:
Independence for the suffering patriots,
now within our timely action, rounds out
their years of trial with deserved recon-
pense. This great contamination the
American people should forthwith demand
from their political representatives. The
cowal dice of wealth scducing our officials
to inaction while murder has been done,
the insincerity of rulers Inventing special
pleas to cover their treachery to nationa
duty, the open and unsuccessful interior
encc with the legal commerce of the coun
try, as an act of grace to brutal Spain and
making us her ally against those follow
ing our historic teaching, have all run
their course to the wounding of national
pride and To our utterly exhausted pa
ticncc But time and the Cuban sword
have brought the crisis which forcruns a
final cure in Cuban independence. This
is the hour of American opportunity. Eff
fectlve work can be done, which, if well
done, will go far to excuse our past neg
lect Congress is the objective point.
Cuba should be put on equal terms with
Spain, regarding supplies from our bur
dcned magazines. Flour. cattle, horses
and arms from American soil by night and
day go in a steady rush to the Cuban
shores for the support of the forces of
monarchial Spain; none of these can go
hence to feed the starving patriots of re-
publican Cuba.
"Bcllgercnt rights to Cuba will quickly
change this brutal panorama The Senate
has already ordered its verdict for such
rights, and the lower house should re-
spond before the new year comes in. The
Cuban League of the United States now
calls upon its entire family of five hun
dred branches to unite as one voice in a
demand upon their congressional repre-
sentatives to vote this way. All other or
ganiZed friends and also individuals of
whom their are hundreds of thousands
sympathizing with Cuba, are urged to the
same activity. Following belligerent
rights, independence is assured. Be not
deceived by the ignorance or the hypocrisy
| of those who argue against this remedy.
There are other cures, but bclllgcrcnt
rights is now the most available and the
most effective With the grant of bellig-
crencv from us, American generosity and
patriotism would crowd Cuba with hillocks
| of munitions for war for the patriots and
| for the utter destruction of her oppressors.
"But autonomy is intcrposed to stay the
| hand of destiny. Too late. Too late.
Spain, by pertidious diplomacy, now tries
to win the triumph her sword has failed to
| gain. 1t is an imprudent attempt to repeat
history Twenty years ago practically
| this same offer of autonomy was made;
and, yielding to the tempter, the insur-
gents then laid down their arm $ How
bascly that promise was betrayed by Spain
the world knows, and the present revolu-
ton certites. This scheme of iniquity
surely cannot succeed the second time.
Spain extends the hand of pretended kind
ness because she is compelled to do so; and,
granting as little as possible, she will fulfil
| even that under compulsion only. When
this compusion is dissolved by peace,
then will come the betrayal, and then again
another revolution. Spain is on her knees
why not keep her there, powerless for
| future mischief to mankind. Over the
past she seeks to spread garment spanSled
with pledges of repentance; but with this
she cannot give back the lives she has
nccdlcsslv DESTROYED nor blot from mem
| orv the unuttcrablc horrors which crimson
her record. The viper is known to exist
| still beneath the cloth of tinscl. 1t would
be the most wicked chapter of the century
| to permit rehabilitation to Spain IN Cuba.
The burglar foilcd in his villainy is not
the man to place in charge of the bank he
would have ruined. And the American,
whether an official or a private citizen,
who lends his aid to this scheme of Span
ISL pcrtidy, jeopardizcs his reputation as
IN honest man. Autonomy is only al