The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-13

of Cuha would not be betrayed with
tke promise Of freedom only to be
taught to look with suspicion and ha-
tired upon the Stars and Stripes as they
had looked On the hated yellow flag Of
Spain!
The air of both houses Of congress
was surchsrged with electric eloquence
that contsasted American honor with
Spanish per6dy.
Such cool headed senator as Knute
Nelson of Minnesota declared that
there we're better and stronger
grounds for our recognizing the Cuban
rspubli, than there was for reccgaiz
Ing the United States by France in
1778 To ignore Com and the Cuban
republic, laid he, ''seems to me to be
cold, icy hearslessreas, unworthy a
great IA ion and great people"
Intervention and independence for
Cuba were on the lips and in the votes
Of mai ,rity of the senate, and almost
g unanimous house during the night
Of April Is, 1898, when the fanou'rsso-
lutions went back snd forth between
the two houses until they came to a
final agreement Thich let slip the ar
mics Of the United States for the
emancipation of the Republic Of Cuba
from the thrall Of Spain.
Senator Stewart regarded "the re-
cognition Of the Independence Of Cuba
as condition precedent to any inter
ference whatever" BE repudis'ed all
suggestion Of hostile constrsint on
parrots who have struggled as the
Cuban patriots have"
1t was with much hesitation and
uuoh sadness" Senator HsRley dis
cussed the declaration Of the independ-
ence Of Cuba which he opposed.
Our own Senator Cullom denounced
Spain. as robber nation, and appealed
to every clover Of freedom and hu-'
manity the world over to further the
sacred cause of Cuban independence.
In concluding his,spsech on the q les-
tion April I5, 1898, this what Sena
TOR Teller said in regulating the idea
Of war tf aggraudizemeat:
''Mr. President, I want the senate,
before We conclude this debate, to say
to the world in the mot emphatic
manner that We do not in end in any
way or manner to derive benefit from
this Intervention. Spain is too weak
and too poor to pay indemnity. l want
the senate to say that We do not In
tend to take that island; that whatever
We may do as to some other islands,
as to this island, the great bone of con
tention, We do not insead to take it
from the legally constituted aushori-
ties Of the island as now established.
sat the proper time, if no one else
does so, propose to offer so ne amend
ment to the j,int resolution that shall
make it clesr to the eorld that 1t shall
not be said by any European govern
ment when we 90 out to make battle
for the liberty and freedom Of Cuban
patriots that We are doing it f,r the
purpose Of aggrandizsment for cur-
selves or. increasing Of our territorial
holdings"
And MIR. Teller vas as good as his
word, as the concluding dissvo~al Of
the resolutions Of April 20, 1898, testi-
fes.
Yet Senator Teller last Tuesday voted
to rivet American suzsrainty On Cuba
in the place Of Spanish shackles.
By that vote he and his associates
have stripped the intervention Of the
United States on behalf Of Cuba Of the
last vestige Of disinserestedness and
have written hypocrisy and shameless
parfdy like blister across the hitherto
fair and untarnished brow Of Ameri-
can honor.