Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-30

ed, burned, strangled and drowned
without chance to die fighting for life
without moment to say prayer. In
the twinkling of an eye they stood in
the presence of their maker.
suppose 80 of them had been United
States senators, suppose the balance
had been members Of congress, on made
| uR of judges and leading professional
and business men, would 40 days have
| elapsed before war began?
"Or suppose each senator had A son or
father there? Do we tell our children
| the truth when we say that the life Of
every American citizen is Of equal value
before the law? They were not senators;
they were sailors. They left widows
and orphans to cry aloud to us in ap-
peal. which comes to us saying we are
| flesh of your flesh, bone Of your bone,
| and blood of your blood. We loved and
died for the flag that shield you What
| is to be our answer? Shall we answer
with money?
Mr. President, / speak only for my
| self, and l am for war.
But gentlemen may say, Don't saw
you are for war; say that you are for
armed intervention. which means war
l believe in calling things by their
right name. If we believe that murder
ing men, and sinking our ship, and low
er1ng our flag, is not cause for war, say
So If 1t is a cause for war let us as
sume the responsibility put upon us by
the constitution, and say SO not only to
| Spain, but to the whole world
''We can hide no longer under the ex-
ecutlVe wing. The president can neither
| declare war nor refuse It, Congress
| alone can declare war. / for one am
I ready to vote now. You may continue
TO cry peace, peace; but there can be
no peace while Europeans own and
butcher their slaves on the same con-
hnent where our flag floats.
But there are those who said that
| the court does not fix the responsibility.
| 1t was not necessary. The peace-at-any-
price man cannot escape so The law
| fixes the responsibility. We were in
| Spanish water and over Spanish soil.
I The harbor is owned and controlled by
| Spain. The explosives in that harbor
We're owned and controlled by Spain
! The power to explode 1t was controlled
| by Spain. A government acts only
| through it's agents and officers 1t was
| owned, located and exploded by Spain,
and Spain must answer.
Let us awake" said Mr.. Mason in
conclusion, ito glorious war as did our
| fathers-a war that shall insure the
/ honor and respect of our flag all over
the world"
| After Mr.. Mason's speech, the senate
passed "A private pension bills, and fol-
lowed this order with eulogies of the
| late Senator Earle of South Carolina
one Of the most remarkable of which
! time political opponent of Gen. Earle.
! The resolutions were referred to the
committee on foreign affairs.
| The resolution introduced by Senator
Foraker is as follows:
| Be it resolved by the senate and the
! house of representatives of the United
States of America
THAT the people of the island of
Cuba are and of right ought to be, free
and Independent.
| THAT the government of the United
States hereby recognizes the republic Of
Cuba as the strue and lawful govern
ment of that island.
! 3-That the war Spain is waging
against Cuba is so destructive to the
commercial and property interests of the
! United States, and so cruel, barbarous
and inhuman in it's character, as to make
| it the duty of the United States to de-
mand, and the government Of the United
States does hereby demand, that she at
once withdraw her land and naval forces
| from Cuba and Cuban waters.
'4-That the president of the United
States be, and he is hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to use, if neces-
sary the entire land and naval forces
of the United States, to carry these reso-
| lutions into effect.
Following is copy of Senator Aliens
resolutions:
| Whereas, the war now and for some
| time past being waged between the
kingdom of Spain and the Cuban insur-
gents has fully demonstrated the total
| inability of the former to subdue the in
surgents, and
| Whereas, said war has become one Of
determination by starvation, and the die
tates of Christian civilization and com
mon humanity alike demand the speedy
cessation of hostihties and immediate
termination of the deliberately planned
starvation now going on in the island
| of Cuba, and
| Whereas, under existing circumstances
| 1t is the bounden duty of the United
States to intervene, and
| Whereas the assertion of the Monroe
doctrine forbidding the interference Of
foreign powers in the affairs of any
| state or nation on the western hemis-
phere creates an obligation on the part
| of the United States to guarantee the
people thereof against unusual cruelties
and barbarities and determination by
any such foreign power, and
Whereas the Cubans have in the
opinion of the American people and con-
| gress by their valor and sacrifices dur
ing the four years of war, won their in
dependence from Spain, and are entitled
to political recognition by the United
! States, and
Whereas, 1t is apparent that Spain
can no longer govern or control the peo-
pie of Cuba, therefore
Resolved, by the senate and house of
representatives, that the republic of
Cuba, now and for some time main
tanned by force Of arms, is hereby rec
ognized by the United States of Ameri-
ca as a separate and Independent ma
| tion.
That the United States shall immedi-
ately intervene and put an end to war
now being waged on the island OF Cuba,