Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-04-14

anlty.
ERVENTlON ASKED
kice Decree Reported
ommendation -RecoEni-
Independence Declared
ranted and Inexpedient.
Kinley Monday sent the
age to the congress of
ties:
lat precept of the consti-
mmands the president to
10 time the congress In
u state of the Union and
10 It's consideration such
shall judge necessary and
ecomes my duty now to
ody with regard to tho
that has arisen in the
United States and Spain
khe warfare that for more
rs has ragged in the neigh
Cuba l do so because OF
connection of the Cuban
The state of our Union. and
grave relations which the
incumbent upon the nation
Il needs bear 70 the ira
of our government, If it
Eith the precepts laid down
ers of the republic and re-
wed by succeeding adminis-
e present day.
Cuban Revolution.
! revolution IS but the sue
similar instructions which
in Cuba against the do
hin, extending over a period
n a century. each of which,
krogress, has subjected the
4 to great effort and expense
its neutrality laws, caused
bss TO American trade and
.aused irritation. annoyance
lnce among our citizens, and
rcise of cruel, barbarous and
practices of warfare. shocked
tiles and offended the humane
OF our people.
present revolution began, in
rs, this country has seen the
lin at our threshold ravaEed
sword In the course of n
eQualed in the history of the
rarely paralleled as to the
he combatants and the bitter
contest by any revolution of
IS, where a dependent people
,e free have been opposed by
II the sovereign state. our
beheld a once prosperous
'educed to comparative want.
e virtually paralyZed. its ex-
diminished. its
taste. Its mills in ruins and
by tens of thousands
and restitution.
to American Interests.
cit ourselves constrained. in
ice Of that strict neutrality
VS. enjoin and which the laws
Command. TO police our own
watch our own seaports in
any unlawful act in aid of
rade has suffered: the capt.
by our citizens in Cuba has
lost, and the temper and for
our people have been so
as to beget a perilous unrest
wn citizens, which has inevi-
ed Its expression from time
e national legislature so that
external to our body poll
and stand in the way
Sc devotion to domestic adj
hat becomes a self-contented
tn, whose primal ma kim has
'oidance of all foreign en-
All this must needs awaken
FED aroused the utmost con-
part Of this government as
my predecessors as dur
administration.
Effort to Restore Peace.
~, the evils from which our
ered through the Cuban war
lormous that my predecessor
Tort to bring about peace
mediation of the government
hat might tend to an honor
lent of the contest between
= revolving colony on the ba-
effective scheme of self
for Cuba, under the flag
gnty of Spain. 1t failed,
refusal of the Spanish gov
IN power to consider any
dlatlon or indeed any plan
which did not begin with
uomission of the insurgents
II country and then only on
Is Spain herself might see tit
~ Inhuman Policy.
ohtlnued undated. The re-
insurgents was in no wise
Inc efforts OF Spain were in
II by the dispatch of fresh
ia and by additions to the
ne strife. The new and in
e. happily unprecedented in
history of civilized Christian
Yicy of devastation and con-
haugurated by the captain
q OF October 81, 1896, in the
Fihar del Rio, was thence
ehorace all of the island to
'ower Of the Spaniards was
Il by occupation or by mill
vns' The peasantry, includ-
ing In the open agricultural
Z urlven into the garrisoned