The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-12
PRES. M'KINLEY'S MESSAGE
INTERVENTION WITHOUT REC0c.
 NIPPON IS RECOMMENDED.

"o'ohs no Asequesss Inat Matter be
 Left to His Recognition of
 Present Cuban Republic Deprecated-
 ArInistice Proposed Some Time Ago bmt
 Spain Was Then Too Naughty to Grant
 It.
 Washington, April 1.-The President to-day sent the following message to congress:
 The Congress of the United States:
 Obedient to that precept of the con- stitution which commands the Presi- dent to give from time to time to the congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient, it becomes my duty now to address your body with regard to the grave crisis that has arisen in the relation of the United States to Spain by reason of the warfare that for more than three wears has ragged in the neighboring island of Cuba. do so because of the intimate connection of the Cuban question with the state of our own Union and the grave relation the course which it is now incumbent upon the nation to adopt must needs bear to the tradi- tional policy of our government if it is to be in accord with the precepts laid down by the founders of the republic and religiously observed by succeeding administrations to the present day.
 Cuban Conflicts.
 The present revolution Is but the successor of other similar insurrections which have occurred in Cuba against the dominion of Spain, extending over period of nearly half a century; each of which. during it's progress has sub- jected the United States to great ef- fort and expense in enforcing It's neu- trality laws, caused enormous losses to American trade and commerce, caused irritation, annoyance and disturbance among our citizens, and by the exercise of cruel, barbarous and uncivilized practices of warfare shocked sensibili- ties and offended the humane syInpa- thies of our people.
 Present Revolution.
 Since the present revolution began in February, 1895, this country has been the fertile domain at our threshold | ravaged by fire and sword in the course of struggle unequalled in the history of the island and rarely paralleled as to the number of the combatants and the bitterness of the contest by any revo- lution of modern times where a depen- dent people, striving to be free have been opposed by the power of the sov- ereign state. Our people have beheld a, once prosperous community reduced to comparative want, its lucrative conn merce virtually paralyzed, it's exceptions l al productiveness diminished, its fields laid waste. its mills in ruins and it's people perishing by tens of thousands from hunger and destitution. We have found ourselves constrained, in the ob- servance of that strict neutrality which our laws enjoin and which the law of nations commands, to police our ports in prevention of any unlawful act 1 in aid of the Cubans. Our trade has l suffered; the capital invested by our l citizens in Cuba has been largely lost, 1 and the temper and forbearance of our | people have been so severely tried as l to beget a perilous unrest among our | own citizens, which has inevitably l found expression from time to time in | the national legislature, so that issues wholly external to our own body polite engross attention and stand in | the way of that close devotion to do- l mestic advancement that becomes | self contained commonwealth whose primal maxim has been the avoidance of all foreign entanglements. All this must needs awaken and has indeed aroused the utmost concern on the part of this government, as well dur
 ing my predecessors term as in my own.
 l In April, 1896, the evils from which our country suffered through the Cu- ban war became so onerous that my predecessor made an effort to bring about a peace through the mediation of this government in any way that might tend to an honorable adjustment of the contest between Spain and her revolted colony on the basis of some effective scheme of self government for Cuba under the flag and sovereignty of l Spain. It failed, through the refusal of the Spanish government then in power
 to consider any form of mediation or, i indeed, any plan of settlement which did not begin with the actual submis- sion of the insurgents to the mother country, and then only on such terms as Spain herself might see fit to grant. | The war continued unabated. The resistance of the insurgents was in no