Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-06
REFORM AN EXPEDIEN'T.
Cal, Promises /, Only as Cloak TO oppres-
sion in Cuba.
7ar ISLAND MUST Be INDEPENDENT
C,bnn Patriots to be Rescued
from the Grasp of spain's Cruel
Barbarlsm.

ed
mi ever issued by the Cubans' Inc
snifssto will be submitted to Cuban
,,rias and cuban groups all over the
IA for signatures. 1t is as fol-
II lows , .,,,oa
d tho Iniaulties and corruption of
-. spanish administrative policy Inn
rsled the people of cuba to launch
| ,hsmselyes into desperate war that
4 ~. heeu the wonder of the world.
r,o,, the first movement the govern
-, ot spain Inundated our territory
-.h soldiers, proclaimed the barbarous
/ ~, N Ms martial law and determined
1r,,,n in seas of blood the legiti-
ito aspirations of the colony. weary
n :, bribery, monopolies, outrages ana
1.hnnor with frenzied fear, amidst
u.lshioorciarnations of the entire nation,
W. ennnish soldiers have endeavored
r,aip of cuba IA desert, strewn with
,nsrs They have laid waste our
~ aud have killed our animals, as
II - tbey purposed to stamp out all lie
=, ar soil They have butchered our
Nnnrmed men. even when found pros
49, In he'd even when protected by
4 ~
Saye driven families from their
Somss and have huddled them together
In althy and unwholesome places, In
nraer that hunger and pestilence may
comnlete the work of iron and fire.
asueh barbarity has proved ineifec-
| NAL. Cuba has resisted with an IN
S1mitable spirit. In vain has Spain
MINATED her armies, ravaged by the
lad Of the patriots and annihilated by
he rigors OF the climate. Spain has
az last become convinced that she
mid not subdue us by force; she has
4 attempted TO employ other arrange
msnts to obtain by deceitful hattery
the temporary prolongation OF her ue-
crepit sovereignty. -.
ssbe frat begged for the support.
4 tyen though 1t might be only moral:
| y, me European powers, which turned
denf ear to Spain's petition. She then
sndeayorcd to gain over by wiles the
,.iendshlp of the United States, offer
ina them the exploitation OF our
market. but she encountered an insur.
nonntable barrier the Indignation OF
,bIs rreat people against Spain's hor-
rble policy of determination. II then
tsname necessary for Spain to change
M method. at least to conciliate In
sSne way the world at large. and TO
Introduce differences of opinion ana
,nnity among the ranks Of the PATRIOTS
and their supporters a..
The manifesto then declares that
ths nolitical reforms or autonomy Of
tarsd 10 cuba by the Spanish states
rsn 10 be efflcacious should have been
The spontaneous product q the ma
tlonal conscience. II says. however,
hat IT is but an expedient to which
the Madrid government has recourse
now that It has exhausted all the
means of violence and crime ana
adds:
mo polltical change can be stable
or fruitful under these conditions.
What is granted either through fear or
coercion will be undone at the earliest
opportunity. But leaving this, the So
| called reform Is unacceptable to the
Cuhans because 1t does not respond To
4 their necessities, satisfy their desires
Or grant their rights. Cuba must SO
organize her economic life that she
shall obtain the legitimate remuner-
alton for her labor, within the gener--
1 al laws that govern production and
trade and with respect to her special
Industry conditions. Her political con-
nectlon with Spain would impose upon
Cuba a fiscal system which would
render the fulfllmeut of this essential
condition an utter impossiblity now
hnd for a long time to come. Span
plsh domination means in the first place
lnterest upon a monstrous debt, the
cost Of a large army Of occupation, of
o' navy, and bureaucracy. whatever
may be the term under which II IL
disguised. The Cuban. no longer Will
Ing to suffer foreign guardianship,
lsplres to govern himself. But a
Cuban government surrounded by
kpanish bayonets, watched by Span
lsh navy stationed all along the coast
~ our territory, whose laws, II the
fower Of legislation be conceded to It.
nust be applied by Spanish tribunals
hnd whose relations with other coun-
tHes must run along the channels OF
spanish diplomacy, would not be even
'ne caricature of IA government.
The essential rights of citizen
pay be summarized In the full liberty
suffrage, his eligibility without
impedlments, and system of indi-
ldual guarantees that shall protect
iim against all usurpation which may
fnect his person, his goods or his civil
opacity So long as there shall exist
" cuba governor, responsible sole
before distant power, sustained
Y an army of which he is captain
general by an administration of Jus
ece OF which he is the inspirer, and
" a hundred thousand resident Span
ards who regard him as their SUI
rene chief, all these privileges viii
1te myth"
Reference Is made to the example
sHorded by Porto Rico. where, 1t is
eeelared the "so-called reforms"
lahted by Spain only served to make
s,ote secure the monopoly of the petty
slanlsh minority.
me sguers of the manifesto reiter-
~, lhe'r allegiance to the revolution
cause and pledge themselves "a
toIp by all means In their power until
uDhs complete liberty shall be rec
snSed and her absolute independence
'"9" nave been achieved.
NOT shot When He Should Have Becn.
peVueen, Ark, Nov. 6.-Advices from
aan Territory have just been re-
t'ea here stating that Walla Toneh-
~ NJ, he famous Indian bah player who
hs, Convicted of murder and was tC
Il, w. n, heen shot Mt Alikichl, Wolf coun.
thursday, still lives. Hundreds oil
mites and Indians had gathered &c
S ,vn the execution which was t.
c., peen a double one as Walln I,
.bauy' another Choctaw, was to have
JARED Walla Tonehka's fate.
An a wednesday night as they were
n nped around the Sulphur spring.
eop,,e center of the settlement {
M ~, received from the capital Of
tS,,, Ifnpcthw Nation with n stay OF eN
ot5sol pending n new trial which wal
conr. by the judge of the suprem,
al OF the Choctaw Nation. The con,
,rrn men, received the news witt
No indian stolcism. Walla Tonehki
AN, utmost wholly unmoved. merel,
~ May be me play more bal
inK ana then turning over and go
Steep Crosby did not even emf