The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-12
JUMPING ON EDDY
The New York Tribune Devotes Ed.
~ torial Space to the Insur-
"A gent Defense 5=.;..y
What We Owe to Cuba and What
We Owe to Ourselves in the Mat
ter of Political Honor.

From, The Journal Bureau, Room 80, Post
Building, Washi,,gto,i. Z sfys;:f<' ,--s, ::
Washington, Sept. 12-During the past:
few weeks Representative Eddy of Min;
nesota, who has been spending the sum-;
mer in Washington, has repeatedly been
interviewed by the correspondents of the
big, eastern newspapers on, the Cuban
situation, and always he has maintained
that the insurgent position was the COR.
rect one,. and that Minnesota delega-
ton in congress, himself included, was
right in taking the stand it did. The
latest; eastern, daily to give Mr. Eddy edi-
torial attention is the New York Tribune,
which in a recent issue got after him and
stated the case Of the Cubans so strongly
that some quotation from the editorial
will make interesting reading in Minneso-
ia, where the people are about to pass on
the claims of several of the insurgents
for denomination. The, Tribune says:
Representative Eddy of Minnesota
says he believes the. United States owes
| Cuba nothing, morally, politically or
financially; wherefore he is opposed to
reciprocity. He is, Of course, entitled to
his opinion and1 belief. If he seriously
! thinks that, having deprived Cuba of her
old market and having debarred her from
seeking such new ones as she may please,
| weaare not morally bound to- give her at
least as good a one; as that Of which we
have deprived her-if he seriously thinks
that we shall not attempt to $alter; his
| opinion tt would probably be useless.
| If he believes that afterE imposing upon
| Cube. the, Platt .ameEHn emit we do not
| owe her in return certain political con-
! sheraton, we shall not undertake. ia
change his conviction. There are some
things in this world more hopeless than
the impossible. But apart from all ques-
lions of what we owe Cuba, what in the
name OF. sense and goodness, do we owe
ourselyes? What do we owe ourselves,
morally, politically and financially? <
| I'VE owe 1t to. ourselves morally to be
just and honest and honorable. We owe il
to ourselves to keep our pledges ex-
pressed or implied. We owe: it to our
selves SO to deal with Cuba that we and
| our posterity shall have no cause fol
blushing at the record. We owe it to our
selves not to commit the sin Of infanticide
by strangling in Its cradle the civic babe
of our own nursing. I.
| 1--WE owe it to ourselves politically tt
make Cuba, so far as we can, a. strong
prosperous, peaceful state, bound closet,
to this republic by ties Of interest and Of
affection. We owe it to ourselves to cul.
tivate in. Cuba a source of strength to the
| United States, not of weakness and o,
danger. We owe it to ourselves to do al
we can to keep ourselves hereafter fret
from the old evils of disorder and pes
! thence just Off our southern shores. We
owe it to ourselves politically to make
Cuba libre', a potent and benefcent fact
and not a mockery and a curse.
| 1--WE owe it to ourselves financially tt
secure for the products of our farms ant
factories the place in the Cuban market.
to which they are naturally entitled. We
owe it to ourselves to have our trade will
Cuba increasing, and to have~the balanc,
Of it not overwhelmingly against; u.s.. w,
owe it to ourselves to have our sales tt
Cuba steadily increasing, Instead Of rap
idly decreasing, as they have Of late beer
doing. We owe it to ourselves to restor
the system Of a few years ago, when W,
supplied four f1fths Of Cuba's demands in
i stead of scarcely more than two-fifths
as at present. - " = -,"-s&ss',.% Z.
/ 'If Mr.. Eddy of Minnesota, and other
who think with him, cannot see that w
owe Cuba anything, let them conside
! what We owe. ourselves. They will fint
the debt not a small one"
i *,s ~. .s-sss.<. w. W. Jermane.