Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-01-27
The Fight For Cuba.
CHAMP CLARK ATTACKS M'KIN.
LEY FOR PASSING THE HAT
INSTEAD OF ORDERING
WAR SHIPS TO HAVANA. tl=
Champ Says If Spain Does Not Speedi
ly End the War the United States
Should Expel Her From the
Western Hemisphere.

WAohlNdION, LIZ S.s OH. Su-I uc
Democrats in Congress are well
pleased with the opening debate in
the House. While not intending
to make the question partisan
one, they maintain that their con-
stituents and the country generally
have lost patience with the dilatory
policy of the Administration and favor
such action on the part of this Gov
ernment as will end the suffering in
Cuba. ss.ga
In the House to-day Champ Clark,
of Missouri, opened the debate with
one of his characteristic speeches. He
said in part:
ssIf Spain does not bring the war to
a speedy conclusion the United States
ought to expel her from the Western
hemisphere. There can be no doubt
as to what has been our foreign policy.
Our foreign policy under the McKin-
ley administration, like the peace of
God, passeth all understanding.
sIn these days of Mc-Hannaism our
foreign policy is SO feeble, so cringing,
so cowardly that even old and dscrep-
it Spain insults our flag, maltreats our
citizens and searches our ships with
perfect impunity, and President Nc
Kinley, instead of sending a man-of-
war to protect our supremacy and
teach the insolent and impotent Dons
a lesson they would never forget,
passes the hat around and invites the
American people to contribute aims
for starving and dying Cubans.
"It Is high time that we served plain
and emphatic notice on all Kings,
Emperors and potentates that the
navies of transatlantic powers shall
not be used as collection bureaus for
questionable debts, as was done a year
or two ago at Corinto, and was done
a month or so ago at Hayti. The
Cuban case is this: ...-. ,-
"For three years the insurgents
have fought with courage and suf-
fered with fortitude that has chal-
Ienged the admiration of the world
save and except the Mckinley admin
istration.
"Three or four hundred thousand
people-some of the papers say 600, ,000
have died, men, women and chill
dren, as much martyrs in the cause OF
liberty as was Warren or any other
hero who died that we might be free
and yet the administration lifts not
its finger to stay the slaughter and
can think of nothing more effective
for their relief than to pose as the big
beggar man.
"The party of Sumner, Chase and
Seward, which proudly vaunted itself
as the friend of man, has become the
ally of pestilence and arson, famine,
devastation and murder.
"To every suggestion that we should
re- ENTER upon vigorous foreign poll
cy we are met with the hysterical
shrek that we are advocating war. 1t
is not true.
"But suppose it were! There are
some things worse than war-deplor-
able as war unquestionably is-and
one of them is to play the cry-baby
act until we are despised of all nations
and kindred and tongues. so
Snow that we number 10000, ,00G
souls, a Republican administration
cannot be taunted, kicked or cuffed
into resenting an insult or demanding
reparation for an injury.
"Such a contemplate and pusillani-
NOUS policy is enough to make Grant
Sherman, Sheridan, Dupont, Farragui
and Porter restless in their coffins.
"My Republican friends, /" he said in
conclusion, "I invite you to lay aside
the weight that is holding you down
assert your rights, come out on the
side of eternal justice and human lib
erty, thereby demonstrating that you
are worthy of the high vocation
wherein you are called. We Demo
Gratis and Populists stand here ready
to remove from America her great re.
proaeh. @
ave on this side will contribute Is:
votes.
"If only 27 Republicans will break
the yoke, defy their taskmasters ane
JOIN US in this noble work, before the
sun sets this day we will send the glat
tldings ringing around the world tha
Scuba is free.' Free, thank God, BY
the act of the American Congress.