Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-04-14

Cannot Protect Ncutrals i'll Her own
Ports.
President Mckinley on Monday sent his
Cuban message to Congress. He favors
Intervention to terminate hostllities in the
island and asks discretionary authority,
but opposes recognition of present Cuban
government. The full text of the mes
sage follows:
Obcdient to that preccpt Of the constitu-
lion which commands the President to
give from time to time the Congress in
formation of the state of the Union ana
60 recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and
sxpcdcnt, it becomes my duty now to adj
dress your body with regard to the grave
crisis that has arisen III the relations Oh
the United States to Spain by reason OF
iie warfare that for mere than three
years has RACED in the neighboring island
OF Cuba | 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 incum-
beat upon the nation to adopt must needs
bear to the traditional policy of our Gov
erlmcut if it is to accord with the pre-
gents laid down by the founders of the
republic and reigiouSly observed by sue
e2cding administrations to the present
day.
The present revolution is but the sue
ecsSor Of other similar instructions which
have occurred in Cuba against the dUmin-
ion Of Spain, extending over 4 Ecr!od OF
nearly half century, each Of which, dur
IT'D; its progress. has subjected the United
States to great effort and expense in on
forcing its neutrality laws, caused enor-
alous losses to American trade and
commerce, caused irritation, annoyance
and disturbance among our citizens and
BY the exercise of cruel, Earharous and
anciyilized practices Of warfare. shocked
the seusiblitcs and offended the humane
sympath!cS of our people
Ravagcd by Fire aud Sword,
Since the present revolution began in
February, 1898. this country has seen the
fprtilc domain At our threshold ravaged by
are and sword in the course of II struggle
anequalCd in the history of the island and
rarc,y paralic,ed rs 10 the number of the
&omhatauts and the bitterness of the con
scst by any revolution of modern times
where a dependent people, striving to be
free, have been opposed by the power of
tlCc sovereign state. Our people have be-
Acid Il once prosperous community reduc-
Ell to comparative want, its commerce vir-
sTally p0raly2ed, its exceptional produc-
aiycucss diminished, its fields laid waste,
lis mills in ruins and its people per;shing
Sy tens of thousands from hunger and
constrained, in the observance Of that
strict neutrality which our laws enjon
sad which the law of nations commands,
sc police our own waters and watch our
~wn sc0p0rts in prevention of any uulaw~
smE act in aid OF the CuhaEs. Our trade
ASs suffered. the capital invested by our
citizens in Cuba has been largely lost aud
Assc temper and forhearancc of our peo-
pre have been SO sore,y tried as TO heget
- pcri,ous unrest among our own cit-
xcas. which has inevitably found its cx-
pErsSion from time to time in the national
legislature. so that issues wholly external
a. our own body polite engross attention
wnd stand in the way Of that close dcvo-
sian to domestic advancement that he-
~suies n Sclf-contcnted commonwealth
whose primal maxim has heen the avoid
A1NS vi VII ltItIEh tIlttt fNgtitHtS. An
AXIS must needs awaken, and has. indeed,
excused the utmost concern ON the part OF
SAILS Government rs we'll during my prcde
SCISSORS term as my own.
Evils of Recommendation.
liz April, 1896, the evils frGm which our
snuatry suffered through the Cuban war
sScanlc so oncrous that my predecessor
sEadc an effort 20 bring about Il peace
aSrough the mediation Of this Government
sa any way that might tend TO an honor
sale adjustment Of the contest between
Spain and her revoitcd colony on the
&ss,s Of some effective scheme of self
government for Cuba under the ilag and
sovereignty Of Spain, II failed through
aas refusal of the Spanish Government
thsu IN power to consider any form Of
ascdiatiou, or. indeed amy plan ef settle
aS'Gt 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 tit to grant.
The war continued unahuted The re-
S;stancc OF the Insurgents was in no wise
@suinshed. The efforts Of Spain were
S~creased, both hy the dispatch Of fresh
ESxiss to Cuba and by the addition to the
Royrors Of the strife Of new and inhU-
aian phase, happily unprecedented in The
modern history Of civilized Christian pco-
Rles. The policy of devastation and con
scatration inaugurated by the captain
generals hando of Oct. 81, 1896 in The
province of Pnar del Rio was thence
extended to embrace al Of the island
which the power of the Spanish arms was
abe to reach by occupation ar by military
operations. The peasantry, including all