Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-04-21
FOR CUBA LIBRE
Presidents Message in
the Cause Of IIu-
manity.
ARMED INTERVENTION ASKED

Bpain's Armistics Decree Reported
without Recommendation -ReeognI-
fion Of Cuban Ipdspend encs Dsciarss
20 se Unwa-r@ntsd and Insxpedisnt.
President Mckinley Monday sent the
bllowiuy message 10 the congress Of
the United States:
obedicnt TO that prccept OF the consti-
tuition which commands the president TO
give from time 70 time the congress in
formation OF the state OF the Union and
TO recommend to It's consideration such
measures an he shall Judge necessary and
expcdient. Il becomes my duty now 70
address your body with regard to the
grave condition that has arisen in tho
relations Of the United States and Spain,
by reason OF the warfare that for mors
than three years has ragged In the neigh
boring island Of Cuba. do so because OF
question with the state OF our Union. and
because OF the grave relations which the
course which Is incumbent upon the nation
10 adopt must needs bear 10 the tra-
dl,ionai policy OF our government II Il
h to accord with the preeepts laid down
by the founders OF the republic and re-
lIgiousiy observed by succeeding adminls-
trations 70 the present day.
The Cuban Revelation.
The present revolution IL but the sue
cessor OF other similar instructions which
have occurred In Cuba against the do
mlnion OF Spain. extending over period
OF nearly half century. each Of which.
during ltH progress. has subjected tho
United States 10 great effort and expense
In enforcing its neutrality laws. caused
enormous loss 20 American trade and
commerce, caused irritation, annoyance
and disturbance among our citizens, and
BY the exercise of cruel. barbarous and
uncivilized practices Of warfa-e. shocked
the sensibiiitiss and offended the humane
sympathicn OF cur people.
Since the present revolution began, In
February, 1895. this country has seen the
fertile domain 1T our threshold ravaged
I by fire and sword In the course OF
struggle uneeuaied IN the history of the
Island. and rarely pnraiieied as to the
number OF the combatants and the bitter
ness OF tho contest by any revolution OF
modern times, where dependent people
striving TO be free have been opposed BY
the power OF the sovereign state Our
people have bsheld once prosperous
community reduced TO comparative want,
its commerce virtually paralyzed. It's ex-
ceptional productiveness diminished, its
feds laid waste. It's mills In ruins ana
Its people perishing BY tens OF thousands
from hunger and deslitution.
Damage to American Interests.
We have felt ourselves constrained. In
the observance OF that strict neutrality
which our laws enjoin and which the laws
OF nations command. TO police our own
waters and watch our own seaports in
prevention OF any unlawful act In aid OF
Cuba. Our trade has suffered; the capt.
tai invested by our citizens In Cuba has
been largely lost, and the temper and for
bearanee OF our people have been no
norey tried as to beget perilous unrest
among our own citizens, which has inevi-
tahly followed lie expression from time
10 time in the national legislature so that
issues wholly external 10 our body poll
tie enEross attention and stand In the way
OF moro close devotion to domestic ad-
vaneement that becomes self-contented
commonwealth. whose primal maxim has
been the avoidance OF all foreign en-
tanglements. All this must needs awaken
and has indeed aroused the utmost con-
ceru on the part Of this government az
/ well during my predecessors as dur
Ing my own administration.
A Previous Effort to Restore Peace.
In April 1895. the evils from which our
country suffered through the Cuban war
became so enormous that my predecessor
mnde an effort to bring about peace
through the mediation OF the government
In any way that might tend to an honor
able adjustment OF the contest between
Spain and her revolving colony on the ba-
sis Of some effective scheme OF self
government for Cuba, under the mas
and sovereignty OF Spain. II failed.
through the refusal OF the Spanish gov
ernment then In power to consider any
form OF mediation or Indeed any plan
OF settlement which did not begin with
the actual submission of the insurgents
to the mother country and then only on
such terms as Spain herself might see At
10 grant.
weyIer's inhuman Policy.
The war continued unabated The re-
sistance OF insurgents was in no wise
diminished. The efforts of spain were In.
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