The record-union., 1898-06-14

entS. AND yet Wlthal, IL could not De
avoided; diplomacy had been fully ex-
hausted and it became the duty of citi-
zens of free and mighty republic to
push on with full force, to the end that
war shall cease, and to say with Deca-
tur: Our country right or wrong, our
country
The speaker pictured the .dastardly
atrocities Of Spain, which had forced
America to intervene. The history OF
Cuba, said he, was one of appalling
horror. The revolt in Cuba had been
brought about as was the revolution in
America. Unbearable taxation was the
cause of it, The people of the produc-
tive, self-sustaining little isle had been
robbed of their all in order to replenish
and fill up the Golfers of their Spanish
neighbors. who had met with reverses
and great losses, which had to be paid
by the Cuban people. 1t was the
spreading on of taxes that had caused
murmurings and discomfort among the
Cubans. They were happy and pro-
gressive colony beforehand, but the
merciless acts of their wicked, con-
sciousless companions had driven
them to starvation, misery and death.
Such, in short, was the status Of af-
fairs. Promise upon promise to allevi-
! ate their sufferings, to tear down their
oppression, had been made by the
Spanish nation, but further than this
nothing had been done. The pledged
!, pacifcatiOn had not materialiZed. and
! for a period of nearly thirty years
the Cubans had suffered untold misery
and privations, until in 1885 they We're
forced to declare war to the knife, and
adopting our national cOlorS, the red,
white and blue, had flung them to the
breeze and commenced their fight for
right and independence. And with
Gods help, said the speaker, and the
aid of the American people, Cuba shall
have her freedom
Dr. Levy told Of Weyler's debut on
Cuban soil with an army of 100000
Spanish soldiers and his scheme Of re-
concentration. He pictured the city OF
MatanZas with its $4,000 people starv-
ing to death, around the free, billowy
waves of the bay, and under the broad
expanse of the heavens, with its pure
air and general health giving qualities.
He spoke of the cruel murder by Span
iSh soldiers of the little boy who had
gone out seeking food for his mother,
and was arrested as a spy; and por-
trayed the general condition in that
war stricken land, where a people had
been prosecuted and down-trodden to
an extent unknown and unrecorded in
the annals of all civilization. Cuba,
bleeding and mangled, declared DR..
Levy, appealed to the great heart of
great nation. The fiat had gone forth.
Cuba must and shall be free.
Spain's great dignity and lofty posi-
ton among nations 400 years ago was
also referred to by the speaker. But
she had domineered with unspeakable
pitilessness and brought herself to the
doom that now awaited her. Il had
been we'll said in the Congress of the
United States that Spain had built
more churches and condemned more
people to death in the shadow of those
churches than had all the nations Of
the earth put together. The Spanish
flag will not be tolerated on the west
ern shore of civilization, declared Dr.
Levy. America will tell Spain to go
back into obscurity. Your cup of in
Iiquity is filled. Your measure of cruelty
is long drawn out! Avaunt, Lie down
in the dust, and shrink from the sight
of civilized and progressive humanity,
We're the Doctors telling words.
1t is often asked why we should inter-
fere in this matter, said the speaker
| We have interfered. urged on by God
| and our country. Our God is no more
an ogre, an Oriental potentate. a mon
ster of the skies. God is the very ideal
of justice and mercy, and in His name
we have demanded justice and mercy
for Cuba from Spain. But why just
| We? ask so many. Because we are
Americans who conceive that true lib
4 art oil he
but also the extension of liberty to 9TH
] ers.
The Americans had entered the war
/ IN the spirit of justice and humanity.
Their flag was the most beautiful,
grand and glorious that waved above
any people. 1t betokened protection to
womanhood and a shield to childhood
1t was likewise a menace to tyranny
and, unlike other nations, its B c was
not aggression, bloodshed and conquest
It had not sought bigness, but great
ness, and, like Rome of old, it was a
missionary nation, with a great mis-
sion TO perform, and that mission to
establish and maintain peace, as Well
as TO ameliorate the condition of suffer-
| ing humanity. Washington was an
ideal Gomez and Cisneros, and it would
have been cowardly, and against the
spirit of liberty loving people and a
free nation to have refused to do our
part in helping the Cuban people. In
| terVention was sacrifice, but non-in-
| tervention would have shattered all
American ideals
After brief reference to the Maine
disaster in the harbor of Havana, and
! the Monroe doctrine which stood out
SO boldly for liberty and freedom, DR.
Levy turned his attention to the volun-
teer army and the part he was about
to play in it-Chaplain in the Pennsyl-
vania regiment. With Dewey, Samp-
son, Schley and our brave volun-
teers, said the speaker, Cuba shall be
/ free
DR.. Levy then dwelt on England's s
| loyalty to the cause for which Ameri-
| ca was struggling. This was an age
of unification. There was a tendency
on the part of one nation to join issues
| with the other, and why should not the
! a love of peace, and love of all that
was noble and lofty
The Anglo-Saxon race, which includes
America and England, has been selected
by destiny for nobler purpose than to
quarrel in Kilkenny cat fashion. From
all the nations of the earth they are
the people chosen to be the missionaries
to proclaim liberty throughout the
world to all the inhabitants thereof.
That race has been appointed to be the
Levites who should carry the ark of