The herald., 1898-04-13

and I will 20 over there and force the Cu-
ban patriots, force the Cuban heroes. to
submit to stable government at the hands
of Spain because the queen regent has AL
ready advised the administration that she
has ordered a suspension Of hostilities. She
cannot order a suspension Of hostilities by
the insurgents. She has not among all her
bull fighters and bullies manhood enough
to order suspension Of hostilit!es on the
insurgents. This administration. with all
this vacillating policy, which was criticised
by the Chicago Tribune. an administration
paper. asks US to put the army and navy
in Its hands to go over and punish the Gu
bans, after three years Of the most horri-
BILE fighting for liberty that any people
ever made on the face of the earth. say
it Is an outrage; 1t is a stencil In the nos
tris of every decent American. We shall
see whether the majority side Of this house
can be whipped into such policy as that"
Indignant Denial
Hepburn, Republican, Of Iowa, Jumped
to his feet as Leutz sat down.
"Mr. Chairman" he began, sometimes
msstatement is SO gross that 1t reaches
the dignity of falsehood. and falsehood 40
gross that 1t becomes mendachy and mem
dacity so foul that it becomes scoundrel-
ism. I say that the president has never
said that he desires the use OF the army
and navy at the hands of congress In order
to establish Spanish supremacy on the ISL
and of Cuba. (Applause) That Is not
true. There is no man who can with an
honest heart and with an honest purpose
read this message OF the presidents and
arrive at any conclusion Of that character.
The presidents whole argument leads UP
to the proposition that the conduct OF
Spain in that island during fifty years OF
m.srule, fifty years Of outrage. fifty years
of tyranny, has brought about such con-
dition that 1t Is now intolerable and insup-
portable and must cease. That Is the Ian
guage of the president of the United
States. He asks the use of the army and
navy to put a stop to the intolerable and
insufferable condition. applause on the
Republican side.) That Is the argument
of the president. Every sentence In that
message to this house teaches that this Is
his purpose, and yet gentlemen say, IN
view of all the language he has used, In
view of the argument he has made in re-
citing the infamous and deepotic conduct
that he has called to our attention. that 1t
is the intention OF the president to become
the ally of the Spaniards. say that there
is no word in that whole message that JUS
tifies any honorable man in making dec
Iaration of that kind upon this floor. We
are going there to fight Spain. We are 60
ing there to establish stable and perma-
nent government. What does that mean?
Here we have had fifty years OF Spanish
government, not stable, not permanent,
except in the villainy of its outrages. The
character of outrages and vilainy which
has become insufferable should be suffered
no longer, the president says, creating sucn
an emergency as compels us to violate the
otherwise friendly relations that we ought
TO have and go to the extreme Of war in
bringing an end to these insufferable con-
dit!ons produced through the acts of Spain
| And yet, the gentleman dares to stand
| here and say that that paper advocates the
use of the army and navy. the placing Of
| the whole military power Of the country In
| the hands of the president in order thai
he may go there to perpetuate that which
he reprobates and continue that which HI
says is now insufferable He wants sta
BILE and permanent republican government
Does that mean Spanish rule? Has any
man the right to make that argumentT'
Lentz-Does he say republican govern
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