The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-04-12
CUBAN MESSAGE.
CUBAN INSURGENTS HAVE NOT YET
EARNED RECOGNITION
President Submits His Views to the Con
gress-He Favors Intervo ntion.
Congress Asked For Power.


Washington, April 1.-THE president
today 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 rec
Dmmend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge nee
essary and expedient, it becomes
my duty now to address your body with
regard to the grave crisis that has
arisen in the relations of the United
States to Spain by reason of the war
fare that for more than three years has
ragged in the neighboring Island Of
Cuba. I 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 ira
ditional policy of our government If it
Is to accord with the precepts laid down
by the founders of the republic and re-
ligiously observed by succeeding ad-
minlstrations to the present day.
The present revolution is but the sue
eessor Of other similar instructions
which have occurred in Cuba against
the dominion of Spain, extending over a
period of nearly half a century each
of which, during it's progress, has sub
jected the United States to great effort
and expense in enforcing it's neutral
ity laws, caused enormous losses to
American trade and commerce, caused
irritation, annoyance and disturbance
among our citizens, and by the exer-
else of cruel, barbarous and uncivilized
practices Of warfare, shocked the SEN
sibilities and offended the humane SYM
pathies Of our people.
Rayaged by Fire and Sword.
Since the present revolution began in
February, 1895, this country has seen
the fertile domain at our threshold raw
aged by fire and sword in the course
of a struggle unequaled in the history
of the island and rarely paralleed as
to the number of the combatants and
the bitterness of the contest by any
revolution of modern times where a
dependent people striving to be free
have been oppressed by the power Of the
sovereign state Our people have be-
held a once prosperous community re.
duced to comparative want, its lucra.
| tive commerce virtually paralyzed, its
exceptional productiveness diminished
it's fields laid waste, its mills in ruins
and its people perishing by tens o
thousands from hunger and destitu
tion. We have found ourselves con
strained, in the observance of tha
strict neutrality which our laws en-.
Join and which the law of nations
commands, to police our own waters
and watch our own seaports in preven
tion of any unlawful act in aid Of tn,
Cubans. Our trade has suffered, the
capital invested by our citizens in Gu
ba has been largely lost and the tenn
per and forbearance of our peOpl,
have been so sorely tried as to beget
perilous unrest among our own cit
liens, which has inevitably found it
expression from time to time il
the national legislature, SO that is
sues wholly external to our bod
polite engross attention and stan
in the way of close devotion T.
domestic advancement that become
self contained commonwealth
whose primal maxim has been tn
avoidance Of all foreign entangle
ments. All this must needs awaken
and has indeed aroused, the utmos
concern on the part of this govern
ment, as well during my predecessor
term as in my own.
President Cleveland's Peace Efforts
= In April, 1896, the evils from whicI
our country suffered through the Gu
ban war became so onerous that m
predecessor made an effort to brin
about a peace through the mediation Q
this government in any way tina
J might tend to an honorable adjustmen
of the contest between Spain and he
r revolted colony, on the basis of som
effective scheme of self government fu
Cuba under the flag and sovereignty c
0 Spain. 1t failed, through the refuse
Of the Spanish government then I
$ power to consider any form of media
tion, or indeed any plan Of settemer
{ which did not begin with the actui
] submission of the insurgents to tn
mother country, and then only on sue
/ terms as Spain herself might see f
o to grant. The war continued unabate,
The resistance Of the insurgents was /
no wise diminished.
The efforts of Spain were increase,
both by the dispatch Of fresh levies {
Cuba and by the addition to the hoI
J. rors of the strife of a new and inhuma
?. phase happily unprecedented in III
modern history of civilized Christia
peoples. The policy of devastation an
y concentration, inaugurated by the car
. tain generals bando of October, 1S9
t in the province of Pinar del Rio, wa
t thence extended to embrace all Of I'll