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

| ct CUea would not be betrayed With
tie promise Of freedom only to be
taug b. to look with suspicion and ha-
tired upon the Stars and Stripes as they
had looked on the hated yellow Asg Of
Spainl
The air of both houses of congress
was surchsrged with electric eloquerce
that cont1asted 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
republi, than there vas for recogniz
Ing the United States by France in
ITS To ignore Com and the Cnb,u
republic, laid he, 'seems to me to be
cold, icy heartlessreas, unworthy
great ion and a great people."
Intervention and independence for
Cuba were on the lips and in the votes
of maj ority Of the senate, aud almost
a unanimous house during the night
Of April IS, 1898, when the famou'reso-
lutions went back snd forth between
the two houses until they came to
final agreement which let slip the ar
mics Of the United States for the
emancipation Of the Republic Of Cuba
from the thrsll Of Spain.
Senator Stewart regarded "the re.
cognition Of the Independence Of Cuba
rs a condition precedent to any inter
ference whatever" he repudis'ed all
suggestion Of hostile constraint 90
parrots who have struggled as the
Cuban patriots have"
1t was with much hesitation and
lruoh sadness" Senator HaHley dis
eussed the declaration Of the independ-
ence Of Cuba which he opposed.
Our own Senator Cullom denounced
Spain as robber nation, and appealed
TO every ''lover Of freedom and hu-'
manity the world over" to further the
sacred cause of Cuban independence.
In concluding his s.spsech on the q les-
tion April Is, 1898, this what Sena
TOR Teller said in regulating the idea
Of war tf aggraudizemeat:
Mr.. President, | want the senate,
before We conclude this debate, to say
to the world in the mot emphatic
manner that ne 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 VbateVer
we may do as to some other Islands,
ss to this island, the great bone Of con
tention, We do not intend to take it
from the legally constituted aushori-
ties Of the island as now established.
SAT the proper time, if no one else
does 80, propose to offer some amend
ment to the j,int resolution that shall
make it clear to the sorld that 1t shall
not be said by any European govern
ment when we go out to make battle
for the liberty and freedom Of Cuban
patriots that We are doing it f,c the
purpose Of sggrandizsment for CUT
selves or. increasing Of our territorial
holdings."
And MIR. Teller was as good as bis
word, as the concluding dissvogal Of
the resolutions Of April 20, 1898, tes.i-
fes
Yet Senator Teller last Tuesday voted
to rivet American suzsrainty on Cuba
in the place of Spanish shsckles.
By that vote he and his associates
have ripped the Intervention of the
United States on behalf of Cuba Of the
last vestige of disinserestedness and
have written hypocrisy and shameless
psrfdy like a blister across the hitherto
fair and untarnished brow Of Ameri-
can honor.