The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-23
MAcEo DEAD.

MR1Eo DEAD.
Maeeo dead. But Cuba shall be free.
His soul is marching on.
Another name for Liberty,
Out of Spanish treachery,
The towers of fame adorn,
Maceo, by thy death you Cuba free,
Liberty marches on.
Fit hero of Thermopylae.
Leonidas will welcome thee
To shades of heroes borne,
Maceo, by thy death you Cuba free.
Maceo dead. But Cuba shall be free
The world is marching on.
While rivers flow on to the sea,
His death will he like victory
To every Cuban born.
Naceo by thy death you Cuba free.
@ brave Maceo, martyr, patriot, slain,
Thy foes thy countrys, and thy muir
d'rer, Spain:
BY traitors lured, by towards Wiley
shot.
On wars dark annals this the foulest
blot.
In freedoms cause thou vert the stern
est foe
That bastard tyrant ever learned to
know.
For Cuba's wrongs, thy keen, unerring
blade
OF Spain's proud minions fleeing cow
ards made
Thy manly form. tho doubtful fields
upon,
Hath led thy dusky race to victories
Won;
Altho a martyrs chaplet crowns thy
brow,
Still of thy country's braves thourt
leader now.
Thy right arm leads thy country's
righteous cause,
Or vengeance leads for thee, Each
hand that draws
A sword for Freedom feels some added
might,
And greater courage for the coming
fight.
Thy comrades loved thee. so Maceo
slain,
In their true hearts still lives to con-
quer Spain.
On Cuba's shores shall Freedoms altar
And to her wales shall peace and wealth
return.
Their love will sustain the Cuban
braves
Who fought with thee, In Spain's
treach'rous wave
The ship now sunk will light for them
and thee
flame unquenched till Cuba shall be
free.
The Maine" went down to raise thy
Cuba up.
america must drink this bloody cupD
Maceo. thy spirit vengeful, it may be,
So clutched aside the veil, that we
might see,
And feel SPANS bloody hand. In her
slaughter pen
Of infamy. cen now she starves Babes
mothers, men.
So near. we feel the breath their pray-
ers have made
And see their hands appraised for
friendly aid;
Yet coldly. as if bought by bloody gold.
we wait. But vengeance can no mora
withhold.
The sea that Cuba rest. first warns our
land
Can we thus longer wait nor raise our
hand2
No, no. The spell is broke! Now Spain
must flee
With all her own Quixotic ehivalry.
They cost us brothers blood-our pay
must be
Americas own Cuba, Cuba free
The sentiment of the poem met with
warm applause from the audience At
the conclusion of the reading z. b.
Elder was announced as the first speak
er. He delivered brief address. re-
viewing the history of the island of
Cuba and was followed by Col W. s.
Bracket of Peoria. I'll.
Colonel Bracket was greeted with
applause as he came forward Begin
ming, he said that never before tho
night of this meeting had he expressed
any opinions in public on the Cuban
question. He had believed it better
not to do so for many apparently OBJ
vious reasons. But now that over $50
sailors of the American navy We're
lying dead in the shattered hull of the
battleship Maine. sunk in Spanish.
waters most probably by the same
Spanish treachery and cunning which
had ever dominated Spains action in
North and South America since the
time of Columbus. it was not only the
time TO speak. but to act
What subtle power is it," said he,
which so letters and checks the ac-
ton of our government from even
stopping the horrible and wholesale
atrocities in the island of Cuba. COM
mitted against women and children. by
officers and soldiers of a so-ealled
Christian and civilized power?
Thousands and thousands of inno-
cent children and women are concern
trated in groups in Cuba and deliber-
ately starved TO death by the official
actions of Spain. The fendish butcher
les of Apache Indians are nutcIasseG by
SPANS wholesale and deliberate muir
ders of women and children in Cuba /
The horrors of SPANS inauisition in
the middle ages are renewed on Ameri-
can soil in the nineteenth century
But above the whitening of bones of |
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tyred forms of 10000 Cuban babes lying /
beside their murdered mothers. the
spirit of God has moved at last. and +
the sovereign mandate proceeds from +
the throne of divine justice: Vengeance /
is mine: ] viii repay. saith the Lord
Mr.. President and fellow citiZens-I +
] wish TO declare further in the yiri1e t
and unmistaka BILE language Of the i
Rocky mountain states. that | am i'll /
favor Of the free and unlimited inves- /