The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-04-16

s"siiHSe oH, iApl1l 1.-the SullefleS
OF the senate and the house were crow
ded hours before the assembling of
congress today by persons anxious to
hear the presidents message read and
witness the scenes following.
President McKtnley's Message.
President Mckinley has sent the long
expected message on the Cuban ques-
ton to congress. The message begins
with the statement that under
the precept of the constitution
the president must from time
to time inform congress on
the state of the union, and it becomes
his duty to address that body in re
gard to the grave crisis which has arfs-
en- in the relations Of the United States
and Spain by reason of the warfare
that for more than three.syeaxs has
.raged-in the neighboring island Of
Cuba
He says this comes under the head of
state of the union, because of the init
mate connection Of the Cuban question
with the state of our own union and
the grave course now incumbent upos
this nation to adopt" He points that
the present revolution is only the sue.
cessor to similar revolutions for nearl,
half II century, each of which has caus.
ed this milton great expense i'll preserv-
ing neutrality; inflicted enormous loss
es on Jul commerce, caused irritation
and annoyance among our citizens and
by the exercise of cruel, b%arbarous un-
civilized practices of warfare has
shocked the sensibilities and offended
the human sympathies of II people"
Results of Revolution. ~
The president declares that since the
present revolution began the fertile
domain has been ravaged by fire and
sword, in n struggle rarely paralleled
in the number of combat
ants and bitterness of contest
by any revolution of mod
ern times. A once prosperous COM
munity has been reduced to compare
tive want, its commerce paralyzed, its
fields laid waste and it's people are per-
fishing by tens of thousands from hum
ger and restitution.
Efforts of This Country.
The message then cites the efforts of
this country to perform its duty as u
neutral and the consequent restrictions
on our commerce, losses to our citizens,
perilons unrest that has grown up
among our own citizens, finding eN-
preston from time to time in congress
making an entirely outside issue stand
in the place of our devotion to our do
mestic advancement.
Former Effort to Mediate.
In April, 1896, the evils from which
our country suffered through the Gu
ban war became so onerous that my
predecessor made an effort to bring
about peace through mediation of this
government in any way tending to an
honorable adjustment of the contest
sbetweerSpain and her revolted colony
on the basis of come effective scheme
OF self governmentfor Cuba under the
flag and sovereignty of Spain. It failed
through the refusal of the Spanish gov
eminent then in power to consider any
form of mediation, or, ineed, any plan
of settlement which did not begin with
the actual submission of the insur-
gents to the mother country, and then
only on terms that Spain might see fit
to grant. The war continued undated
and the resistance of the insurgents
was in no wise diminished. The eff
forts of Spain to increase its reign of
terror both by the dispatch of fresh
lcvies to Cuba and by the addition to
the horrors Of the strife of a new and
inhuman phase, happily unprecedent-
ed in the modern history of civilized
Christian peoples. The policy Of dew
astation and concentration inaugural
cd by Weyler's bando of October, 1896,
in the province of Pinar del Rio was
extended to embrace all of the island
to which the power of the Spanish
arms was able to reach by occupation
or by military operations.
Then follows a review of the effects
of the bando in the better part of the
four central and western provinces,
where 100000 agriculturists were driv-
en- from the lands to starve in towns
and so per cent since have died.
The message declares in the words
Of the president last December that
recommendation was not civilized war
fare but determination. The only
peace it could beget was that of the
wilderness and the grave. After the
fierce activity of the second year Of
a matters settled down to a dogged
struggle in which the Spanish demand
for submissions of insurgents appear.
ed to approach no nearer its %rcaliza-
tion. This brought the matter down
to the message of last December. The
assassination of Premier Canovas and
the change of government with a
change of policy then dealt with a