Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-17

senator Chandler Advocates Belli-
Eerent Rights for tho PATRIOTS.

senator Chandler Advocates Belii-
Eercnt Rights for tho Patriots,
WASHINGTON, May lean en-.
thusias.ic audience of men and We
men, many OF tnem we'll known Ia
Washington, PACKED the Columbia
theater TO it's doors this afternoon at "a
monster mass meeting held In behalf
OF the Cut. n insurgents. The theater
wns appropriately decorated. Seated
on the platform and participating in
the exercises were Senators Gallinger
and Allen, ex-senator Butler of South
Carolina, Rev. Hugh Johnson, pastor
Of the Metropolitan Methodist church,
Rev. WILDER Ennis, and number OF
others identified with the interests o
the insurgents. General William
Henry Browne, presluent OF the Gu
ban league, called the meeting to
order and introduced Senator CALM
ger TO the presiding officer. The lat
ter made a brief address and read u
number OF letters and kilograms oi re-
grets, among them being those from
Senators Frye and Burrows ana COM
msndeT Clarkson Of the q. A. r.
LETTER FROM SENATOR CHANDLER.
Senator Chandler sent the following
letter OF regreW:
WASHINGTON, May l8.-S enator A.
| AguirIe, Washington, ID. C.:-Dear
| SiI:-Although unable 10 attend the
meeting tonight, 1 send q few words o.
sympathy and OF hope for the relief
and Independence OF Cuba.
AS wish TO see the United States
| declare and maintain the iDdepen.
uence Of the islaud as France did that
| OF the American colonies and made
Of n a ~
L shall ID a practical friend vots for
every method tending to tho same
beneflcent end. hope and believe
that Congress and thu President Will
coon formally recognizs etste Of war
| and Cuban belligereucy. This step,
followed as II will be by all the other
Independent nations OF the Western
hemisphere cannot fail TO insure Cuban
independenCe.
Moreover, without delay, we ought
to send a fl set to en- or the harbor and
an army to land upon the soil OF Cuba,
first to protect the lives and property
OF American clti2ene, and secon dly to
stop the atrociOus anu unciv ilizsI
methods OF warfare adopted by the
Spanish generals.
In advocating all these measures, /
an conscious OF no passionate hostili-
~ to Spain. In 1861 sDs recognized
the Southern Conieueracy within lees
than three months after Its military
struggle began, and surely II she can.
not hold Cuba without making one
vast desert ana 4 raveysrd by driving
the iphabitan,s Into the cities to
starve, and by haNging, shooting or
garr0ting Cuban officers aud soldiers
for rebsllion ana incsndiarism, she
ought to loose the island. II between
1S6land and 1866 one Confederate gem
eral had been thus quito death all the
powers OF Europe, with ore accord,
would have sent their feet a1d armies
5000 miies across the ocean TO END
such bafbarous warfare ami to estso. |
lish and maintain the Southern Con. |
federacy. Yet Gen. Robert L. Lee
and all his generals were as truly |
guilty OF rebellion and inoenliarism |
Us was Theodore Mendez GonzaIep, |
who was snot for that of snse &C Ca |
banas fortress In Havana ON Monday
last.
We blame England for abando ming
the harmless and peaceful Armenian |
Christians to massacre by the oslems
and Tor submitting the liberty flowing
Greeks 10 slaughter by the rurkish
despol. England retorts that we dare
nol stop the methods OF unciv.liz ID
warfare applied at our very uoots Ia
the American Crelo-the fair land
OF Cuba; and both charge and counter. |
charge are justly made.
In helping to MAKE CUBA indspeu.
lent we are observing u traditiona |
and uRivsrssl American policy, the