The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-09-08
The Right of Cuba to Liberty
gippi VALLEY Democrat

Mississippi Valley Democrat.
The Associated Press, the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. the
national bank newspapers and every
other agency which can be controll'
sd by the Wall Street commune OF
capital is being used to create public
sentiment against the gallant and
unfortunate Cuban patriots, who, ex
Guided from their own cities and
kept out of their own homes in San
tiago province by Spanish authority
supported by President Mckinley,
are now being called upon to lay
down their arms and dispense with
out any recognition whatever OF the
rights OF ownership of their own
soil. The Spanish Tories of the
towns now being dominated 'the
better class" are TO be set over the
Cuban Nationalists and every plato
cratic paper in America will support
the outrage. The following remark
able article and the heading over it
are from the st Louis Republic of
August 16:
SOME RABID cuBANs LOOKING FOR
TROUBLE.
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 1S.-The
better class in Cuba favor the annex
alton of the island to the United
States and a majority of the masses
ia ready and anxious to accept the
shelter and protection afforded by
an American protectorate, but they
are influenced by certain class of
rabid orators and breeders of sedi
ton and rebellion against anything
smacking of law AM order.
This infammatory class demands
urges the recognition of Cuba for
she Cubans and spurns all offers or
suggestions tending to prosperity
under an American protectorate aud
excltes popular discomfort This is
exactly the class that pushes itself
most into evidence and whose
views and opinions are most over
heard and published
The men whom the Republic now
describes as this infammatory class
who commit the crime of urging
the recognition of Cuba for the Gu
bane, were rendered the sympathy
of all the democrats by the last Dem
ocratic National convention aud were
encouraged to go on in what the
platform described as "their heroic
struggle for liberty and indepen-
dence."
Every democrat in the Senate and
House voted for a resolution declar-
ing that they are and of right ought
to be, free and independent The
Democrats of Missouri In convention
at Springfield have declared that our
national pledges must be kept
toward them, by way of pairing
with Messrs. Hanna and Mckinley
IN their war policies. the Republic
denounces Cuban patriots like Go
mez and Garcia as breeders of Sc
ditition and rebellion against any
thing smacking of law and order
About the time this appeared, a
squad of soldiers in New York City,
acting under the same inspiration it
shows, forced merchants to remove
the Cuban flags from their store
fronts and then trampled on it
From the time war was declared
every effort has been made to force
the Cubans to show resentment and
when, being very human, they begin
to do so, they are Immediately de-
nounoed as 'rabid" seditionists, enc
mics of Flaw and order"
Opposing the Sugar Trust they
will be called anarchists, insane dis
turbers and, if possible, worse names
than the Wall Street trusts have
hurled at Chicago Platform Demo
Gratis. But it ought to be under
stood that in thus turning upon the
Cubans, the Republic is repudiating,
not representing, Democracy. The
Democratic position was stated off
eiaIly IN the following report sub
mitted April 18th by the Democrats
of the House cor mittee on foreign
affairs.