Evening star., 1897-06-05
HAVE MADE MISTAKES
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taxes and assessments, the demands for
money, open and secret, the latter the most
exhaustive and threatening, have de-
stroyed my property and business. If the
Spaniards win 1 shall be beggared. Equally
shall be ruined If the Cuban revolution
lists, as they go. win, taking the Spaniards'
place Utter ruin awaits me in either event.
l nave one faint hope that my family may
not De paupers, and it is that the form of
our freedom may be the protection of the
great republic" There Is no other chance.
men or this stamp are in touch with busi-
ness ness. ana they are against the policy of the
torch, and they have tried hard to save
something from the wreck. The names of
such men must not be given under any cir
cumstances. for 1t would mean confisca-
tlon and assassination. What they saw is
vital 1t would be murder to send their
names confdentially to the Senate
=. Inc PRESIDENT has sent special COM
missioner to Havana, Mr.. Calhoun, who
evidently In close relations to him, and
the results OF this mission will soon be in
possession of the President; and what he
does should be the only report
D. 1t was gross mistake for the Cuban
representatives to make-vaporing over the
belligerency resolution. when they knew
,:I What was going on-knew that Key West
fact-ought to have known that those hav-
ing IN charge the potentialities of the
United States must absolutely know the
whole truth from the inside-an unpardon-
able mistake for Cubans-to hasten with
their own needless propaganda and cultf-
Vate quarrel, II not pick a misunder-
standing with the President for doing his
auty' and ne had discharged 1t SO well as
10 empty the prisons of Americans
Mr.. Calhoun Shadowed.
The fact is fairly well known-it has
reached the writer of these lines through
private channels-that Special Commis-
sioner Calhoun has been shadowed by
spanish spies every hour since he left
washington. and will be assiduously OBJ
served on his return; and that on the ships
ana the roads, in Tampa and Key West.
ana havana and Matanzas, he has spoken
10 no one who has not been noted, and
VINO, with his associations, is not tnyes-
usated. The spaniards have been more
thoroughly aware than Americans a. large
seem to be- that the special commission Of
Mr Calhoun is of the utmost importance.
should the Senate insist upon having. for
conndential use. so. to speak, the private
notes Mr.. Calhoun has taken of conversa
tions with him? Can the Senate ha nm
aware that the debate on the beIligerency
reSolut1cn must in some degree have re-
strained the communicativeness of the peo-
pie the special commissioner has met mr.
heard from, as he would be most likely to
do, through third parties? Is it possible
senators DO not know the Cuban situation
wen SNouSH 70 De clear that the true stories
Mr.. calhoun must rely upon chiefly for the
Inner light" that he was to seek are from
men ne did not meet, who could not 20 to
him, who could only impart the secret of
their identity as a matter of life and death.
imposing sacred obligation that the real
names should never be placed on paper?
VIII the Senate hold that these condolences
shall be exposed and debated in executive
session? Certainly not. There are two
hundred men who know the secrets of the
Senate. and, therefore, there are no tmport
ant secrets.
And yet 1t was the fact that the Pres
laent did not order the dumping of the
condolences Of men who took their lives in
their hands when they wrote the mem-
oranda, upon the desks of all the senators
that caused the high temper of several
honorable senators to be placed upon ex-
nloltlon, ard votes to be cast avowedly by
senator German to censure the PRESIDENT
There are some signs that the Senate has
the second sober thought on this subject,
1t Is high time it had.
There Is no reason in the statesmanshjp
OF business or humanity that the United
states should assume responsibility for the
mistakes the Cubans have made under the
dreadful strain Of a war of unprecedented
hcrror-for there is nothing in the books
or blood, ancient and modern, in the story
OF the Netherlands or Armenia equal to
this Cuban tragedy-but because the case
Is so exceptional and oppressive in Its calls
upon us, owing to our close relationship
and sympathy with Cuba, we should guide
our footsteps with every precautton of
Cuban cause and the relief Of Spain from
the struggle Of death in the war with her
children, we should be sure to make no
mistake. MURAT HAISTEAD