The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-14
NEW CUBAN PARTY.
Will Act In Harmony With the
American Resolutions.

American RESOLUTIONS.
New York, Sept. 13.-Prominent Gu
bans of this city have drawn up a man
ifesto, reviewing the antecedents of
the present situation and setting forth
at length the necessity of constituting
a new Cuban party, to be called the
Nationalist, which, without reference
to previous political utilization. should
bring together and unite all the valu-
able elements of the population OF the
island of Cuba interested in the we'll
being and prosperity of its people, for
the purpose OF organizing and recon-
structing the country in conformity
with the spirit of the resolutions passed
by congress on April Is.
After referring to the military occu-
patton of the island by the United
States, explaining its natural and i'm
mediate consequences, and showing
that the condition is only a transitory
one, the manifesto proceeds:
In laying down that fact as a fun
damental one, we must not forget the
debt of gratitude which we owe to the
United States for the moral RESPONSE
bility which the United States has as
Sumed before the world, appearing as
the sponsor of the people of Cuba and
OF their capability to develop and flour
lsh In peace under the beneficent in
huence of justice and liberty There
IS no incompatibility whatever between
the duties and feeling of the Ameri-
can people and our own duties and feel
1ngs. On the contrary, they fully har-
monte, since they emanate in both
cases from the same exalted ideal of
civilization and progress.
We have fought for the principle
which the American people have laid
down as the foundation OF public law in
America-namely, that those who gov
ern derive their powers from the con-
sent of the governed. Striving for our
Iull autonomy for the purpose of OF gan
lZlnS and governing ourselves in ac-
cordance with the dictates Of our con-
science and the conditions of our col
iectlVe lie, we affirm and realize the
American principle and prove its vir
tuality and its efficacy in furthering the
improvement of the individual man and
OF a people.
Laboring now for peace and order
with the same ardor and constancy
with which we engaged in war, we
shall demonstrate that we were worthy
of the sacrifices made by the American
nation in our behalf and We shall dis
pei al suspicion as TO our being IN
prepared for the present liberty which
we have obtained We shall thus fifty
return the valuable service rendered
US and at once relieve our benefactOrs
from I'll anxiety, showing that their
generous act VIII neither be injurious
10 them nor even the source of serious
care"
The manifesto then outlines the con-
duct which should be followed by those (
VINO wish TO see the people of Cuba I;
prosperous and happy and calls upon |
all who are animated by that feeling. /
whether Cubans or Spaniards, 10 join .
hands in the furtherance of that noble /
and patriotic purpose.
The Nationalist have adopted the !
following resolution:
Whereas, the situation in Cuba i'm
poses the necessity of uniting the. poIiti- (
cal elements of the country for the pur- |
pose of supporting the principles and /
OF achieving the object which inspired /
the war Of Independence; and,
w hereas. Il IS both necessary and
that we should conform our
and proceedings to the spirit
OF the resolutions passed by the con-
Sress Of the United States on April 49,
1898;
Resolved. that for the purpose of /
in Cuba the Cuban Ma
tiOnalist party, we invite he co-opera-
ton Of all the revolutionary elements
and also all the other elements of the
Cuban population which sympathize
With the object above stated. without
regard to their previous political
ahliation:
Resolved, that a committee be ao-
pointed, whose duty shall be to pub
1sh and distribute a manifesto where
II the purposes and object of the pro
posed party are set forth at length and {
o take all such other steps as may
De necessary in order to convene in !
Cuba at the proper time a convention {
If delegates from all parties of the is {
and for the purpose of Derfecting the
of the party" I
e.
general provisional committee of sc
las been selected, representing the /
property holders. the commercial class.
he various professions. the different ]