The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-27
CUBA AND THE SPANIARDS.
PAPER READ BEFORE NEW RAVEN
COUNTY POMONA GRANGE.

BY G. w. Bradley, Ex-Secretary of East
Haven Board of Education-Says Ha-
vana was Captured 1876 Years Ago by
General Putnam With a British and
American Army.
An interesting meeting of the New
Haven County Pomona grange was
held at the town hall in East Haven
last Thursday, April 81. The hall was
crowded to OVERLOOKING. Mr.. Hopson
w. M, of Wallingford, presided and
the Rev. Mr.. Countryman, w. L., of
North Branford, had charge of the ex
ercises. One of the principal features
of the meeting was a very interesting
paper ON Cuba and the Spaniards,"
read by c. w. Bradley, ex-secretary Of
the East Haven board of education.
Mr.. Bradley said
At the outset it Is a pleasure to say
that If it were possible to possess even
in small degree, the eloquence of a
Cicero or Demosthenes, or the orator
ical powers of Patrick Henry, a Web
ster, Clay or an Ingersoll, or the de-
scriptive ability Of Depew, it would be
given-wheneve there was an opportu-
nity-in behalf of making Cuba "the
Gem of the Antilles" "free and indie
pendent"
1t could not be otherwise than that
seventy million of people should take an
active interest in the affairs of Cuba,
especially from the fact that it is as
near our shores and jurisdiction as East
Haven is to Greater New York. The
unhappy island has long been a victim
Of misrule and bad government
There never was a more scathing and
formidable arraignment and indict-
,nent made against nation than that
presented by the recent New York
Methodist conference, composed of
nearly two hundred clergymen in it's
exhaustive review of Spains long con-
tinued cruelty and oppression to the
people Of one of the most fertile and
fairest islands in the western hemis-
phere.
On this beautiful April day. which is
typical of southern azure skies, and at
this hour and in this place, before this
sympathetic, intelligent, refined and or
nate assembly, and in the happy pres
ence of these fraternal orders repre-
senting different sections of the most
populous and most important county
in the state of Connecticut, it is con-
sidered not inappropriate to recite this
arrangement and Indictment:
"The Christian church and the Chris
tan ministry have been potent factors
in securing the civil and religious liber-
ties and in shaping the civilization we
enjoy. 1t is, therefore, both right and
duty for this conference of Christian
ministers. representing a. large section
Of the most numerous branch of the
American Protestant church, to make
a deliverance upon the national and in
ternationa1 questions now commanding
the attention of the peoples of many
lands.
America has furnished a new gene
sis in the history of the human race,
with the best of the past civilization
surrounding its initial movements. We
are the heirs of history and we are liv-
ing in times when history is being
made 1t becomes us to recognize and
make sure that we are in line with
Gods thought and purpose.
CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
almighty God did not permit this
land Of ours to be first peopled by the
races from which the discoveries came,
but sheltered it by His omnipotent
hand during the first century after it's
discovery, until the Scriptures were
disentombed in the old world and the
races of men fit to found a republic
Were nodded by their regenerative pow
en- Then He lifted His hands, and the
Huguenots, the Hollanders the Puri-
tans and the Cavaliers came to the
new world and laid the foundations of
the republic and of American institu-
lions with civil and religious liberty as
the cornerstone.
sit seems to have been the divine
purpose to prohibit Latin civilization
with It's ecclesiastical domination and
its inquisitorial persecution, with it's
heartless tortures and constituencies
cruelties, from taking root in soil re-
served for the great experiments in
self-government.
1.-THE oppressed of all chimes have been
welcomed to the security and enjoy
ment of our free institutions. Some
times refugees from the darkness and
the degradation of the Latin civilza-
tions across the seas, seeking the light
and opportunities here afforded, have
threatened the very liberty they have
sought by injecting into it's veins the
poison of the perverted civilization
from which they have fled. The gene
raj health of the body polite, never
theless, has been measurably well pre-
served.
Inspired by this republic, the ma
lions in South and Central America
and Mexico have thrown off the yoke
of Latin tyranny, and, despite the
bondage of heredity, have made COM
mendable progress toward the republi-
can forms of government.
Spain Always an Oppressor.
1.-THE relations of Spain to the Amer
leans have always been that of oppres-
sion and spoliation, of commercial mo-
nopoly and political despotism, and her
grasp has never been relaxed except
by successive revolts and revolutions
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