The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-25
GLARING OUTRAGE UPON CUBA
fBY G. A. pDwARps)

IL anything else were needed TO help the
democrats win a decided victory this fall
] il has come in the shape OF the nasty
scandal which the facts OF the looting Of
the Cuban treasury by American army Of
ficers with the connivance and consent OF
the administration have furnished. 1t As
scandal reeking with filth and slime.
| 1t is the meanest thing that has yet
been brought to the door of this malodor-
GUS administration. Not content with
robbing the taxpayers Of this country.
who are reasonably prosperous in COM
parlson with the poor people of the i'm
poverished island of Cuba. for whom we
are acting as trustee they go down there
and put their long and bony fingers of
avarice into the pockets OF the starved,
disease-ridden. poverty-stricken. helpless
people of Cuba.
1t is an outrage that ought to cause
the people of this country to blush for
their own Nation and damn forever this
administration In the eyes of all honest
men.
! We went into that island for the purpose
of taking the heel OF the despot from them
| forever of cruel country that was rob-
bling them without mercy or conscience.
and we perpetrate the same crimes for
which we fought Spain. These crimes are
not only perpetrated but the secretary Of
war unblushingly admits it and says he
Will place more OF the pets of the ad-
ministration on the pay roll as soon as
he possibly can. lie waited too long. II
I Ia, IL !. Ill
such thing to be done they deserve no
longer to be free.
As soon as we had helpless Cuba In our
power the cormorants that always flourish
| in days of unrest and when a republican
administration is in power, hocked here
like a lot of buzzards when they scent the
! unwholesome prey, and they have been
feasting ever since on the scraps left be-
! hind by the Spaniards. The republicans
made up their minds from the very be-
ginning that they would use the island
for the purposes of exploitation and loot,
and they have carried out their original
intentions with regard to 1t.
| ~
| The recent visit OF the secretary Of war
to Cuba had nothing to do with his Of
icial duties as a member of the cabinet
charged with the conduct of the military
arm of this government. 1t was wholly
and entirely in the interest of a lot OF
contractors who are to be given fat con-
| tracts down in Cuba and franchises on
which they will wax rich. One man in
particular will fare better than the 9TH
| ers His name is James j. Dady and Mr..
Root was his attorney before becoming
the secretary of war. This man will get
contract or a franchise that will net him
I over S3,000,0 00 The visit that was re-
Gently made to the island OF Cuba by a
prominent senator was for no other rea-
son than to ascertain where the most val
liable tobacco lands were located and re-
/ port to his constituents who are interested
IN the culture Of tobacco, that they may
gobbe them. He went, however at the
expense of the government. He not only
mad his expenses paid, but he was given
every opportunity to get the kind OF In
formation that his people wanted,
| In other words. the republicans are sim
ply using Cuba to fatten their own
pouches and they care not one rap
whether the promises TO those people are
kept or not The truth is, they are not
going to get out of that island unth the
people of this country make them. They
have tasted blood and they will satiate
themselves with it and gorge TO the burst
ing point before their lips are pried loose
from the public teat
y
This whole administration has heen
permeated from the very beginning with
riot of rapacity, a lust for loot. 1t has
spent more Of the peoples money for COM
missions than all its predecessors put to-
gether. II any man will point out one
single thing of value to the public that
has been accomplished by any of these
commissions, then | viii agree to retract
everything l have ever said concerning
this administration and live on bread and
water for month as penance for lying
1t can not be done by the widest stretch
OF the imagination.
And this Is not the worst OF IT, rher,
are more commissions now in the incuba-
tor and they will be Matched before the
summer Is over, in order that the bene-
hciaries thereof will nave an opportunity
to take summer outing at the expense O,
the government.
I'm order TO pay all these bills that are
accommodating and that will roll up before
the weak and wobbly man who now occr-
pies the White House is called on to CO.
his republican henehmen in congress are
every day passing appropriation bills TO
provide for them. Not a single appropria-
ton bill has been passed this session OF
| congress without having at the end OF
~, Wclasslneu, an Item or 5000 GOO 10
$4,000. COO TO be placed in the hands Of the
president to be expended as ha thinks
best. That Is the truth.
~
What do you think OF it? No other man
who was president of the United States
ever had such opportunity to reward fay
critics with the peoples money as has this
one. No other man ever had any such
blind confidence reposed in him as has
Mckinley. What has he done TO deserve
ii? He spent 5O,OOO,oOO given him all un.
grudgingly by a unanimous vote OF the
peoples representatives to prepare for
the war with Spain in buying old and
worn out tubs for transports and paving
for them about twice or three times what
they were worth in order that a lot OF
harpies might get their rake-off and pock-
ct fortunes.
To be sure the democrats have fought
all these apparent steals ia the appropriq-
ton bills which | have mentioned. but
what avail was It? The republican lead
ers would stand up and look straight into
the faces OF the weakened members OF
their own party and say Have you no
confidence in your president" That
would eaffTa 40 and tba XII