Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-07
PREPARED FOR WAR.
The residents Message is Ready
for Transmissic n to Congress.
LATTER BODY WILL ACT PROMPTLY.
A declaration of Intervention Certain 70
Result-This Means War-Amer-
ioaRs to Leave Cuba
Immediately.

Kansas City, April ga special tc
the star filed in Washington at S;30
a. m. is as follows:
The Presidents message to Com
gress is signed, sealed and ready for
delivery to Congress.
1t could be transmitted to-day, but
for the reason that, before it is Off
cia4y made public, Consul General
Lee and all Americans must be out Of
Cuba to save their lives.
Unless Spain absolutely yields on
every point between now and noon
tomorrow the message will be fol.
lowed by Intervention, and this
means war.
The President makes no recommen.
dalton to Congress, but there is no
lnistallihg the strong, vigorous and
American terms which he employs.
There is no recognition of the indie.
pendence of Cuba, although the pro-
priety of this action was discussed at
length at the special cabinet meeting
held last night at the White House.
Attorney General Griggs presented
a judicial review of the presidents
and of the possible future effect of
such recognition, the outcome of
which was a decision that such rec
Ognition would not DE wise at the
present time.
Waving aside. therefore, all ques.
lions OF independence, the President
will find in the constant misgoyern.
ment of Spain in Cuba full and ann
pie ground for Intervention, although
he does not make specific recon-
meniation.
The message will begin by recit-
ing the action of Spain for the past
twenty years, showing how her man
agement of Cuban affairs has result
ed most disastrously to the United
States.
American commerce has been in
terfered with to a ruinous degree.
American citizens have been mall
treated, imprisoned, starved and MUIR
dered without redress.
Claims against Spain, filed by
American citizens, are in the State
department, aggregating hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and make the
evidence complete
The long record of incapacity and
lack of control has eliminated, the
President will say, in the destruction
of the United States battle ship Maine
and the slaughter of 266 American
officers and sailors by an explosion
due to a submarine mine in the har-
Dor of Havana.
Even if this mine was placed there
by private individuals, its very pres
ence proves the failure of the Span
ish government to afford protection
TO vessel of friendly nation and
the responsibility therefore falls up
on Spain.
The President will show in his mes
sage also that the United States has
done all in its power to bring about a
peaceful solution of this problem.
1t has repeatedly called the atten-
ton of Spain to the horrors which
were allowed to go unchecked in
Cuba and to the injuries that were
being inflicted upon American citi-
zens and commerce, but these repre-
sensations, it is shown, have been
treated with scorn.
In conclusion, having failed to
make specific recommendations, the
President will announce that he
holds himself in readiness to execute
whatever may be the will of Congress.
The message is not a long one, but
it is emphatic, patriotic and conclu-
sive.
There will be no question of the
response which Congress will make
to it.
A resolution for forcible interven-
tion will at once be reported from the
Senate and the House committees on
foreign affairs, and the country will
indorse the prompt action.
All negotiations with Spain have
ceased.
Minister Woodford has been noti-
fed in Madrid that there are no fur
ther communications to be expected
from this government.
No question of an armistice will
now be considered.
The time for delay and temporizing
has passed.
There was a temporary belief that
the insurgents might accept an arm
istice, but the situation has passed
that point.
1t is now a matter between SPAR
and the United States and If Spai
wants to regard Intervention as hos
tile act she can do so.
me time for, parleying has passed
Recognition of independence was
Edetracked because the administers
ton did not want to establish a pre-
osdent that might return to plague
this country. 1t would mean the in
dorsement of the disintegration of |
governments. Besides this, it world |
had to complications that would |
cause the real issues to become in |
solved, and this is not desired.
Bhen the PresluenI affixed his ri