Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-14
. MESSAGE ON CUBA.
I President Mckinley Informs Con-
eress on Cuban Matters.
WRECK OF The BA71LESHlP MAINE.


kVW0HH A300O tuo
dsnt TO Stop the War.
4 WARRINGTON. April l9.-The presi'
dent yesterday sent the following mes.
eage 10 the congress Of the United
States:
Obedlent to that precept Of the constitution
which commands the president To give from
4 time TO time the congress information OF the
etate Of the union and to recommend to their
eousideration such measures as he shall judge
necessary and expedient II becomes my duty
now To address your body with regard to the
Nxye crisis that has arisen In the relations Of
j the United States 10 Spain by reason OF the
" warfare that for more than three years has
ra9ed In the neighboring island Of Cuba I do
\ 10 because OF the intimate connection Of the
y Cuban question with the state OF our own union
y ald the grave relation the course which Ia now
4 incumbent upon the nation to adopt must needs
bear to the traditional policy Of our govern
ment tits 10 accord with the precepts laid down
W the founders Of the republic and religIously
observed by succeeding administrations to the
present day. The present revolution IL
4 but the successor OF other similar
X insurrections which have occurred In Cuba
against the dominion Of Spain extending over o
+ period Of nearly half o century. each Of which,
during its progress, has subjected the United
States TO great effort and expense In enforcing
Il ~ neutrality laws. caused enormous losses to
4 the American trade and commerce. caused lrri-
tation, annoyance and disturbance among our
4 oItixens and by the exercise Of cruel, barbsr-
cus and uncivilized practices Of warfare
4 shocked the sensibilities and offended the hu-
name sympathics Of our people. Since the
4 present revolution began In February, 1905
4 ihls country hos seen the fertile domain ~ our
4 threshhold rayaged by fire and sword In the
4 course Of struggle uneQualod In the history OF
i III island and rarely paralleled as to the num-
x ber Of the combatants and the bitterness Of
the contests by any revolution OF modern times
where dependent people, striving to BIO free,
\ have been opposed by thepower Of the sovereign
\ state Our people have behed a once prosperous
4 community reduced to comparative want, It's
commerce virtually paralyzed, lbs exceptional
4 prOductveness diminished It's fields laid waste,
! III mills In ruins and Its psople perlshing by
n tens Of thousands from hunger md dosttuton.
hAve 'ounu ou,s1i.ee oons ,s. W., !" sno
X laws enjoin and which the law OF nations COM
N msnds to police our own Writer'S md watch our
Z own seaports In prevention OF my unlawful act
n ID Aid Of the Cubans. Our trade hns suffered;
4 the capital invested by our citizens In Cuba has
A been largely lost md the temper md forbear-
amos Of our people have been so sorely tried as
ueso. pV.,ons sas w. w. s,",
ssnh wni'n M '''os''. . .otiu a,' ,,
@ WIZ ~ 'a,o ~ .ao n',o %oa
polilic cngross attention and stand in the way
" that close devotion to domestic advancement
that becomes self-contonted commonwealth
n whose primal maxim has been the avoidance OF
~ foreign entanglements All this must
needs awaken and has indeed aroused the Ut
A most concern on the part Of this government as
4 we'll during my predecessors as my own
Efforts to Bring About Peace,
Y II Arr toao tho avis from wh,cb mr. coun.
+ - suaerod through tho Cuban war hocame On
rrsrcus that INV nrodceessor made an enort In
'ss;rS ahout n reace m rough tho mediation NJ
4 NM sc r in anv wev that might land n
Nv hcnorahle adjustment NJ tbe contest be.
,tr,ean Srain ana her revolted colony nm the
!i,ss,s n soma efyactive schemo NJ sef. oovern.
\ ,,,s.t III f,rho mrdor tho Ana ana Sovsregntv
n a,,sir n failed throuch Tho resusal NJ ths
Hr.rish oovernmert then IN nower IN consid.
~ ~ : sorr, n mediation or Indeed anv Mar n,
! 5stt,.mor, wh,ch did mot ho,,n With actual
a~s.hrcissior NJ Tho in.urgar,s In tho mo,her
ncrrtrv and ,hen onlv nm suoh tormu No Snain
'hsr.sw rr,ght 600 n, n cram, ma inns con.
+ xlrmad uoehated Tha raais,aroo a, tho In.
s,,rssr,s woS ~ M w,aa d,m,r,shed
sS"s' w '"NV WY ~
FVIicy oE VVVh7'W"""'
& ina efforts Of Spain we're Increased, both by
thS dispatch Of fresh levies to Cuba md by the
addition TO tho horrors OF the strife OF o new
and inhunan phase happily unprecedented In
Tia modern history OF civilized Christian peo-
plea The policy Of devastation and corcentra-
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\ w l'os' u',san'Vo'y ounu'.,onS as wy su"r.
sa6 d6popdIated arcas q prodnStlon deStltI.
4 tion md want became misery and starvation
n Month by month the death rate increased In
IN alarming ratio. BY March, 1897 according
n n Nonservative estifuntes from official Snan-