The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-03-31

Harlequin, New orleans.
Don't you think" writes a citizen O.
Atlanta to Harlequin, ''that when you NJ.
raign this country for demanding a coat
Ing station for our country and such other
rights as Il deems advisable, you should
remember that we Joined Cuba in tie
fight against Spain and 1t was only WITH
our aid that Cuba defeated SPAIN
Let us see what the demands of this
country are:
]. Cuba is asked to respect the Monroe
doctrine; that is to promise that no sos'
ernment shall gain control Of its territory
by colonization or otherwise.
.. Cuba Is asked not 10 contract debts
which Cuba can not pay out Of Its own
revenues.
3. Cuba is asked to permit the United
States 10 intervene for the maintenance
of independence and peace and order.
4. Cuba is asked to validate what has
been done by the United States durlug
military occupancy.
3. Cuba is asked 10 execute plans for
sanitation.
6. The title" To the Isle of Pines is TO
he settled by agreement.
!. Cuba is asked to lease or sell to the
Il
United States coaling stations.
s. Cuba Is asked to embcdy these pro
| visions in n treaty, after which this coun-
try will amiaby withdraw its troops.
~
Now. to return TO the Atlanta gentle
mans question. Suppose YOU were to come
across big bully In the street. beating u
| little man most brutally, and being con
siderahly bigger than the bully. and she
night being in progress near your home to
| your annoyance, you Hight in yourself and
| give the bully good drubbing, You lar
| rup him into surrender and send him home
to repair his bruiss. II you did this sim
| ply on impulse, BECAUSE the fellow was %
much bigger than the little man he was
! bullying, | fancy that, although you were
| bigger than he, you have done ns1t
! noble act. Its nobility, of course, wonld
be lessened In proportion as you were
| actuatcd by the fact that the brawl was
near your home and disturbed you.
But suppose, having done this, you turned
! on the little man you had Just been De
! Tending twho, of course, would by the
laws Of nature, hold You very warmly N
his heart aud said: Say. / fancy tha'
see here. I don't like the style Ia whtcl
You keep yourself / want YOU TO 20 nous
and sanltntc. And here, | have a fad aut
that is, that whenever In future you har,
any troubles In your domestic arrange
mcnts at home, you must let me setth
them for you. And | don't want YOU t.
get In debt. This watch ! must have.
will either lease 1t from you or buy 1t
You would be a beautiful object, wOuldn
youl What difference would there bc bc
tween you and thief and highwaymal
who heat m some other hlghwaymau II
order that he might do the robhingt
The declaration we made that Cuba wa
aud Of right ought to be free~the dcclara
ton that Cuba was free precludcd au'
such demands as we have made upon her
precluded our carpetbaggers being sTatioue,
there as they are uow-and ! wonder II I
be Intended that the robbery Of the post
office department by US that is, by on
aeentl Is among the things Cuba mus
VALIDATED
Had the heart and honor Of this country
Instead of It's doodle, been directing al
fairs, we would not have had a ~nldie
10 Cuba one week after Spain capitulated
The boys would have boon back home Tx
American gentlemen, c,s ding their sweet
hearts, at the sides of lheir mothers an
fathers, breathing the free air of Amer
lean citizenship, eternally IN lie proud u
the fact that they had participated in Ia
whipping ri dastardly little bulldozcr, /
the putting an end to strife, In establish
ing IN one more spot on the earth the prlr
ing In the grandeur Of the greatest natio
In the cycles Of time. The cesspools a
have fermeheS he baseeesa Of f@P s
gnoble cause, and today We stand befor
the world In the light of a liar and pei
! jurer, demanding tribute for an act white
J We professed to do for God ana right an
our conscience sake. The yerlest hiaci
guard would he ashamed Of his conduc
did II mate with the morals of the Unite
: States.
say that there never would have hee
: any doubt ~ to our course had the heal
and honor of the country. Instead of II
, noodle, governed our conduct Follow N
j and see II the CONCLUSION is not right.
is matter within the easy memory 81 q
, all. that the common" people. the maSse
. dragged Tho administration headlong Int
9 this war With Spain. The administrator
by confession Of the president. tried Il
best 10 avoid IL. Doodle like the valor
: the palsled miser Is fearful; and Villa
4 Mckinley represented and represents q
n Doodle Interests Of The country, The ru
= months before the outbreak Of the w
I | with Spain The cries OF distress Of n
! feconeentrado women and children r
called to these masses visions OF the
: women and children az home and no
I, they would feel IN theirs were treated
I the women and children OF Cuba by ii
4 brutal soldier OF effete and Fottlng Spai
= Before the president was the questO
a Suppose they should whip us. wat WI
: become OF ms and our future polite
= hopesT' Manly men do not reason thu
4 There Is a Dayy Crockett rhythm IN II
= beating OF their hearts And when ii
4 Maine was blown up by the trearherW
= mereenarles ~ Spain IN Havana hari,o
= the nation was on nre. They would ha
q dragged william into the brawl had II be,
a nation from Mars suspected Of the o.
p rage The same intrepid yalor which cor
y | posed this spirit was That which licked ii
= English twice, and viii lick anything
!. the face OF the earth when they 20 into
/ with unavoidable Kfritr 4
! their side What ~ aid 10 Spain-wh
!. the Drawn and heart, the essential val
: and courage Of thc AmericaB--the boy fro
I, the plow the counting room. the MACH
- shop from Maine. from Louisiana, fro
4 eveiy where over this great counsry-did