The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-26
REVELATIONS RE9aROING CUBA.
The Shameful Wey Americans Have Been
Treated There.

The truth about Cuba is beginning
10 leak out Of the archives Of the de-
partment of state, where two admins
trations mortgaged to the money pow,
er have SO long guarded it from the
people for whom it was gathered and
10 whcm it rightly belonged. We
have had many facts from an unfet-
terable press which has burst through
the cordops OF WeyIer, but from the
agents Of the government itself sent to
Caba to guard American interests snd
protect American citizens. but little
has been permitted to reach the Amer
icau people. Their news has been
suppressed, and the country has been
treated with duplici:y.
Call it unsafe, ;" lingo or what
they will, thank God. we have an
American senate! Only by its per-
sistence, only by its uDtiring solici-
tude for national honor, humanity
and right have vital facts been drawn
from the Spanish calab which
TWO administrations have made Of the
state department. The other Gay the
senate brought out the fact that hun
drsds of American citizens had beer
driven from their homes by Weyler
and penned up in cities to be slowly
starved to death. Yesterday new rev
Citations were made.
The first of these was that the same
Secretary Olney who with his chief
Insisted last December that the Cuo2n
cause was not in the ascendant; who
later insulted congress with the state
r.ent that any action it might take as
10 Caba would be ignored by the Pres.
ident-that this same Secretary Olney
notified Spsin year ago that hopes
Of tae termination OF the iGsurrec!ion
had been completely Destroyed" that
it vas gaining in men and arms and
wss more formidable taau ever
That was hiS statement to Spain. be
took good cans that the American psc-
pie should know, through the govern
ment, nothing OF the truth.
The next revelation vas that thir
teen mouths ago the Cleveland gov.
ernment proposed NE iation to Spain,
and received il reply the statement
;; that only absolute suoniSs;on By the
Cuoans could be entertained. Tna.
! wss ia April-yet il the December
following we 6 id President Cleveland
trying 10 humoug the American peo,
pie with talk OF peaca through media
ticn!
a third revelation was that al the
claims, amounting to millions, made
| by American citizensfor the destTuc
ton OF their property IL CGoa had
been fatty rejected by Soain. Yet "e
ksve seen tie Cleveland sdministra.
tioa and It's followers insisting that we
must not aid or com;or. the Caoans
lest Spain should refuse tC pay these
war claims.
But worst of all the facts dragged tc
light is that President Mckinley him
: self, vitn MS secretary OF state, en-
! join e. the ccu uittee CT i1q1irDc;
lsenators not tc reveal the names and
ilccaLious OF the American consI FIR
nishing information Of the Cuban sit
uation lest they should be ''massa
cred" This IS what We call the great
! est and strongest country IN tee world
we have navy far stronge'
that Spain's and resources utterly oa
:yond comparison witt her; we coult
drive uGe Spanish army out OF Cuba IL
q month ard smash every seaoosrd
city OF Spain into powder-yeE We
must whisper our Information OF Gu
/; ban conditions and give it out anony'
mously, lest the Spanish IL the island
slaughter our agents who gave ii
Ard the President, the man who has
/ This great power CT arms ct his CON
mand, who has 6 ship for every con
isular agent in Cuba, ready all to &C
Cnere ana protect them, is the imposel
of this most shameful condition ol
icowardly secrecy!
There are men. ard papers that pro
test against our recognizing the exist
ence OF a war thai mas lasted two aoC
half years. Tor fear that cur adnis
sion OF this truth will cause bankrupt
and impotent Spain 70 attack US; there
are men and papers that protest even
against our sending food to our srarv
ing fellow citizens Il CGba, lest Spain
make that a casus b6il; but il the
American congress and people car
stand this outcropping OF pusillanimi
; ty Al the white House they are sunk,
for al their power, to swiniSh level
appropriate to the Spanish concep
ton OF them. Columbia State.