The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-08

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Of no Importance whatever.
/ have attempted to demonstrate ese-
wI3ere that the primary cause OF the emu
lesa conflict Is economic. ana tnat nlii
ctlIfy cal, never be removed until Cuba y
'indopendent or possessed OF an insuiar PAL
lament that can regulate absolutely no'
own tariffs Nothing coulA be more as
ingenious than the device employed 10 oo-
scitre the fact that no such concession
contemplated. Cuban parliament 70
be given the power to form its own tarin'
fixing both import and export duties, pro.
vided the assent OF the home government
can be obtained thereto. In case OF
disagreement the point In dispute shail %
submitted to the committee OF members OF
the cortes. consisting Of an equal nuinpsr
OF peninsulars and Cubans." Everybody
knows that Cuban deputies in the cortes al
Madrid are mere men OF straw returned by
the governor general Even IL they were
independent nd change could ever be MADE
In existing taffffs without tbs consent OF
the peninsular Spaniards. who would never
listen to such thing at the end oil threc
years OF wholesale destruction, PROVOKED
BY Spain through unprecedented political
and economic oppression that has brought
drouth and famine to hundreds, the span
ish crown at Last contesscs that the Gu.
bans are right and that their wrongs should
now be redressed by generous ana gen
uine grant Of home rule when the prof
fefed scheme Is examined u II found TO be
not only indefinite and Illegal. but aDso-
lutely wanting In sincerity upon the Two
vital points sI Issuance. Such proposal has |
been extorted by the results Of a struggle
that bas 30 completely broken the military
aud financial power OF Spain that con-
quest OF the Island is now hopeless. AFTER |
expending $500 100000 and after sending
over the sea 300 900 soldiers, Spain has
fighting force in the island Of less than
&c, 900, while the revolutionary army now
in possession OF the greater part OF the
country numbers about $1,000.
Who has the right TO say that the he
role men who have maintained 10 the Men,
iguas OF Cuba such a sn1sl,cs~aeains' such
odds are not capable OF SELF government!
Who Will say that oil the fruits the. they |
have won through death by ewp4i and fam
inc should in the hour OF victory be sur |
rendered for an empty sham. which means
only new bondage under sheig old and pitt |
less oppyessors!
And yet thiS heartless. selfish message
has not ono word al eneoufHgcmcct or sym |
pathy for this suffering people now dying |
and starving by thousands 81 our very |
Doors. In It they are contcmptuously denied |
as nobler than their prosecutors For |
turately for this generous Christian couu- !
try this message with cool and serene |
cynicism admits that IL does not represent |
the sentiments Of the American people as
expressed hy congress q year ago iu tha !
Joint resolution In which both houses de-. /
clared that state Of war ala exist IN |
Cuba ana that It should he so recognized /
by this government. Congress h polite. I
tod 10 attend TO is own business thai \ I
the recognition Of heliigercncy shall bc- |
come necessary IN the future tho oYecuttye 1
power will act without congressional iu- !
terference.
i, Is generally understood ,ha- This le.
libFate cpaepiracy 20 thWari Toe wil ~ ,
the Nation Is 70 b. carried out through a1 |
appeal 20 he speaker OF the hottie ri |.
Representatives, who la expected 70 s0 /
manipulate It's rules as 10 prevent }he pa,
sage Of the pending heiigcrency resolution /
which the senate bias already approved |
In other words the tyranny OF he speaker. !
ship IN the house Is TO be so used in behalf |
Of Spanish tyranny in cuba 49, u pre,eat /
any expression whatever 10 eymp1thy with /
or recognition Of a government whose |
status has within the lat few DAYS hecu !
cescrbei az follows.
Washington nccemhcr Consul Gen
oral iao has Informed he state department
that ihe Insurgents in Cuba elected ard
installed a. Na2Za, Porto Principe. on DC
tober 20. the following officers President
Bartolo Mass0, ylce president Domingo
Aieman; secretary Of the troa sury Jose
Earnhio Font ateFline, secretary of for.
eign afairs .sudrea Morneo de- Ia rorre
SECRETARY o. the interior Manuel H. SILVA
general-in-chef, Maxine Gomez, llcuten-
ant general, CaliNto Garcia,
The house OF representatives Is either 10
be muzslcd or called upon to declare thar
this revolutionary government which mas
virtually crushed the power uf Spain iu
Cube has no such dctacto existence as NNl
authorize a recognition az war between iho
cpntending parties. rhat absurd eonten.
non becomes The moro grotosuuc when wa
remember that Spain has expended ylthnnt
effect such revolutionary government far
more money and men than Great Britain
employed during our entire revolutionary
war There are limits even 10 the patience
Of the American people and the time h,.
now come when the cxecuti ~ mower gho,lI
Dc made to feel through public domonstna.
ZION that the Nation will hc entirely set
ASIDE in the interest OF a lrcmulous. selfish
short-sighted pollw The whole contest
now csnters tn the passage Of the bellpar
cncy resolution pending I'm the house n
that can not he carried then nothing what
ever can be done 10 end a strife that mas
been going on for fifteen years out OF ,bo
last twenty nine, and which. after deatrov.
ing our commerce TN tho island has ~
come war cloud that today ohscures eyerv
business enterprise. II the present admin
IsNat'on proposes to indefinitely pnstpono
euch uncertainty at the cost Of every husl.
ness interest II must be- prepared TO accent
the consequences
~ THIS lest Stage OF the. struggle there
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