Willmar tribune., 1900-05-30
A NOTE OF WARNING.

A warm discussion took place in the
U. S. Senate last Wednesday when
Senator Hale of Maine and Senator
SpOoner crossed swords. In the
course of the controversy Senator
Hale declared he had discovered
powerful influences at work to retain
Cuba and meyer fulfill the pledge made
the people of Cuba by congress. Such
a statement from republican senator
prove that the charges made by pop
ulists and democrats are not merely
idle campaign stories. In reply to a
remark by Senator Spooner. Mr..
Hale said:
Mr.. Hale said: "The senator has
more confidence than 1 have in the ex-
pertinent we are trying to-day of teach
ing the people of Cuba honesty and
good government. I think we would
be better off if we had not taught the
Cubans the lesson that has been
taught in the last few months.
Mr.. Spooner: What lesson?'
Mr.. Hale: "The lesson of fraud,
peculation, cheating, appropriation OF
revenues, stealing, carnival in every
direction of corruption and fraud"
Mr.. Spooner warmly: ''It is a
little tiresOme for me to be called
upon on this side Of the chamber to
reply to a democratic Speech
Mr.. Hale: 81 am as good repub-
lican as the senator from Wisconsin.
l do not recognize any party obliga-
tions that compel me to consent to the
proposition that every thing has gone
right in Cuba.''
Mr.. Spooner: Nobody pretends it,"
Mr.. Hale: 81 do not think the ex-
pertinent has been success. I would
vote tomorrow to withdraw from Cuba
and leave that people to establish and
set up and maintain their own govern
ment. The time will come when re-
publicans will be glad when we get
out of this thing without worse things
happening than are now."
"What does the senator mean," de-
manded Mr.. Spoouer, "when he
speaks in general terms of a carnival
of fraud and corruption?''
II mean the things disclosed. A
bill of particulars has been filed al
ready. It is not the admins istratiOn
at fault. It is a natural cause. There
never has been an instance of setting
up a supreme government in colony
or dependency that has not been at
tackled with precisely the things that
we have seen in Cuba. Congress is
much at fault. The administration is
not at fault. The administration has
selected men who are believed to be
good men. We went into it with utter
confidence, believing it was an easy
thing. I voted against the Paris
treaty because believed colonial de-
tendencies would result in precisely
what has happened. I am glad to see
the administration is trying to defend
it, but [ do not want anybody to say
it is an unexpected thing"
Mr.. Spooner: $50 far as anything
I have said is concerned the senator's
remarks are, in the language of
Shakespeare, "A bolt of nothing, shot
at nothing" We went to war to free
Cuba. Have we done Cuba and the
Cubans no kindness by pouring mil
lions of our money and spreading the
blood of our soldiers in order to drive
out Spanish = tyranny forever from
Cuba? Has the senator any suspicion
in his mind or in his heart that the
pledge made In the resolution passed
by congress as to the temporary char
acter OF our occupation in Cuba is
not to be kept?"
Mr.. Hale: I have very grave sus-
picions. think there are very power
ful influences in this country, largely
located in New York city, largely
speculative and connected with money
making enterprises that are deter
mined that we shall never give up
Cuba. I think that the time will never
come unless something earnest and
drastic is done by congress that the
last soldier of the United States will
be Withdrawn from Cuban soil. I do
not think the president favors holding
Cuba. I discovered very powerful in
tiuences, commercial, mercantile,