The age-herald., 1898-04-01


 has been spoken with deliberation and that it Is entitled to be considered almost as authoritative. When he says that the
 president is trying to compromise the mis- understanding between this nation and the Spanish government upon a basis which will compel the island of Cuba to buy its
 liberty from the butchers of Spain, we are | justified in supposing that 1t is for that purpose the house has been denied the op- portunity to vote on a resolution which de- clares that the Cuban patriots have fairly won tbeir independence. Applause on the democratic side). believed yesterday, l know today, that the policy of that house was to delay decision of this question In ! the hope that the rich and powerful of this | and other nations interests will compel the | struggling patriots of Cuba to buy the | freedom they have fairly won with their courage and by their swords Democratic applause) I owe the republican party no | kindly offices, but I will venture to warn 1 it that 10 its leaders agree and the repub- | lican sanctions the agreement to compel any people under Gods sun to buy that lib- erty which God has given them, that party will never survive long enough to escape 1 the odium which will be fastened upon It by the outraged sentiment of the American | people. Applause on democratic side) Not Purchasable Commodity "Mr. Chairman, liberty is not purchas- able commodity (Renewed applause). There was a time in the history of this republic WHeh nO If1dn III nlSn SIdIfOn WOuiu nave proposed that one nation would sell or an- other nation would be compelled to buy it. Democratic applause). It was birthrght of man and 1t was their duty to assert it, though war be necessary to its assertion. Prolonged applause on the democratic side). am myself, MT. Chairman, as avels SC | to war as any gentleman. On this side | during the present session twice we have l walked up to the altar and made a willing sacrifice of our political advancement We | know and you know that a war will be to l the advantage of the party in power; ana | you knowing it well, still know it no better l than we do. Yet with the knowledge we are pursuing a policy to the advantage of our political opponents and to the injury | of ourselves, you must admit we did all you asked us to do. Tn all the history of this republic, no party has ever acted more periodically or more unselfishly than the democratic party has acted during this crisis. (Appause on | the democratic side). There was time when the war could have been ayerted. | Six months ago, if you had done as we | urged you to do, If you had recognized the | rights of these struggling patriots to nght for independence, war would have been averted, and free Cuba would today be an established fact in the history Of the world" Applause on the democra4c side). A member: And the battleship Maine, with all the accompanying lives of Amer- can seamen would not have been sacrl- feed" Mr. Bailey, continuing: And this unfor- tunate disaster, which has mortified hu- manfty and humifated our American .citi-
 zenship. would never have occurred. (Ap- plause). -s.sx .sf-- They Refused to Act 17t "The great battleehdp. the Maine-the ship which bore the name of a sovereign
 state of this union, would stll hiave been upon the high seas flying the flag of thfs republic and the more than 250 brave sea- men, many of whom now sleep many faith oms deep beneath Cuban waters would have been wearing the uniform of the nation which they honored with their courage and sought to defend with their nves (Ap- plause) You refused to act and the pro | gross of events have simply intensified the situation. The longer you postpone doing | right the longer you postpons action, the more certain it is that war and war alone l will extricate you. In trying to allow Spain l to complete her reconquest of Cuba you 1 have made it absolutely necessary that you | shall intervene in the cause of freedom l There may be time still to avert a war Within the last forty-eight hours repre- | sentative of the Cuban republic has sahd | to me that it did not desire us to engage l in war with Spain; that all they ask is that we recognize their independence 10 give | them the credit and standing to which they are entitled among the nations or uhe earth and with their own strong arms ana with their own brave hearts they WMa achieve Independence. (Appaause on the democratic side.)
 "That is their spirit. Why do we not | meet them in it? War? You invite 1t with all its horros. I know the horrors as well l as the gentleman from Indiana, MT. Johfl- | son. I witnessed its desolation. We do not want war We have twice offered to you | AL. ,,,,tt tn, r, Chairman we might as well be frank. IT l if takes war to free the island of Cuba my l vote yea, and the vote of those with whom l I fdave the honor to act, is "Cuba Iree' l without war if possible, free Cuba with l a war if necessary" Prolonged applause | on the democratic sde.)
 Grosvenor Speaks for Administration l MT. Grosvenor (rep) of Ohio, whose ut- | terances are given great weight, owing to 1 his close friendship with the president, an l swered MT. Bailey. He said he did not in- I tend to reply to the argument of the gen l tleman from Texas but he felt for him 1 a very strong degree of sympathy. "When," said he "a man has been TOT nearly a year trying to play a game or l politics on the question ofawar, and mas failed and has finally made an exhipitlon, | a futile effort in that direction unparalieieo | in the history of this body, 1t becomes pa- | thetic when he talks about war and war l that will never happen. I rise to point out l one or two abused statements constantly | repeated in the newspapers, and which l found an echo in the voice or the gentle l man from Texas. He warns this side that 1 if the president attempts to force the Gu bans to buy their independence hell will
 break loose in about fifteen minutes on the l democratic side. Qanghter3)on the repub- | lican side.) T"
 Nobody proposes to force Cuba to buy l their independence. It Is like tale told l bv tbe idiots. full of sound and fury and l full of nothing. There is no such propo-
 sition by, to or from the administration, 1 and the whole idle prattle of this character | in the newspapers has been so much folly | and nonsense. and yet, ask this man, the l leader of a great division on this floor, rises l and solemnly warns the republican side Of | this house that If the president drives to | Cuba to buy her independence they will go l to work to prevent it. Nobody has at | tempted 1t, 1t is an idle dream of somebody | and the talk of the newspapers l Williams Calls Him Down ys