The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-28
He VIII Oppose Hasty Interference in
Cuban Affairs, and Urge Remedial
Financial Legislation.
DISMISSAL OF Mr.. BRoPHY
TERRE HAUTE LETTER CARRIER
WHO CAUSED MUCH TROUBLE.
Was Charged with Failing to Afix
to Have insufficient Postage.
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special to the Indianapolis JournaI.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-President Nc
Kinley has taken to complimenting his
friends by reading portions of his message
to them and inviting comment. Some of
these gentlemen talk when they are clear
of the White House. One of them, an Of
fetal of the government, unburdened him
self follows this afternoon, and what he
said can safely be accepted as embodying
the essence of those sections of the mes
sage referred to. The interview is direct
confirmation of q dispatch on the same
subject to the Journal several days ago.
THE Presidents message will satisfy and
delight the country. 1t will leave little to
be desired. The Cuban chapter will deal
somewhat with the historical and diplo-
matte events of the past eight months, and
the deductions that are drawn therefrom
will constitute probably the strongest part
of the document 1t will set forth that
when he assumed the duties of executive
our relations with Spain were very seriously
strained; that the Canovas Ministry was in
control and it's attitude towards the United
States was one of almost unconcealed hos
tility; that the Cuban prisons were filed
with Americans, and the efforts of this gov-
ernment to secure their release were COM
bated at every step by the Spanlards, who
employed to that end all the sinister arts
of unfriendly diplomacy. Weyler was in SUI
preme command and the situation was ex-
plosive in the extreme.
yesterday the last American prisoner
was released from Spanish dungeons ON
the Island of Cuba The hand of the assas-
sin has removed the man who was respon-
sible for Weyler and Sagasta is now at
the head of the Spanish government, put
ting into execution the policy and the re-
forms which he advocated eight months
ago. BY his act Weyler has been recalled
and a man put in his place as governor
general of Cuba who is in hearty accord
and sympathy with the measures for which
Sagasta stands. The Spanish prisons in
Cuba have been emptied Of American pris-
oners, and the attitude of the new Min
istry towards this government is one OF
undoubted friendliness.
cit is the part of this government to hold
up Sagasta's hands and to give him a.
chance to confer upon Cuba many of those
rights for which it has been contending.
The danger lies in the possibility of the
failure of the Sagasta Ministry to main
tain itself at home, but with that con-
tingency the American people at this stage
have nothing to do. If this Ministry should
not be sustained or if 1t should act in bad
Ialtn, or III we SnOulQ again De confronted
with renewal of Weylerism entirely
different proposition will be presented. If
the time should ever come for the United
States to act in Cuban affairs, it will be
able to show that it has exhausted every
effort to secure peace and to protect Amer
lean interests. When that time arrives, if
it ever should, seventy million people will
back up the President and Congress in any
steps which they may take to restore peace
to devastated Cuba
''There will not be a jar or a jolt in the
message. The chapter on our national
finances will be entirely free from a sug-
gestion Of injurious agitation. The Presi-
dent will take firm grounds in favor OF
remedial legislation where the weaknesses
in our monetary and financial systems are
such as to threaten the stability of values
or offer menace to the progress of ma
terial prosperity and he will suggest sim
pie and practicable plan for stopping the
endless chain which has in times past been
such a terror to the business interests. He
has firm conviction that his recommended
ton in this particular will be taken up by
Congress and favorably acted on despite the
apparent hostile majority in the Senate. His
friends In Congress have assured him that
there is a most excellent prospect of this
thing being DONE"