Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-12-02
MHAT SENATOR HALE sAID,l
Opposes Making Cuba State-Pre-
diets that Canada will JOIN u. s.

OpppotS nfaNihS tuDu State-I-re-
diets that Canada will JOIN U. $.
Inaccurate reports OF what Senator Ha Q
said on Nov %, when addressing the Sen
ate on the Newlapds resolution (invitfng
Cuba TO become state of The American
unionl have led to some curious COM
ments.
For the benefit, therefore, of THE
AMERICANS readers, ms remarks are
given in fun below. MIR. Hale had moved
to reconsider the vote OF The Senate by
which the joint resolution inviting Cuba
to become state had been referred 10 the
committee on relations with Cuba, and
spoke rs follows:
Mr.. President. shall take only i.tie time OF
the Senate, bat desire to submit few obser
yations upon this resolution.
The experiment OF self-governmept upon
this continent In the countries lying south OF us
has not always had the happiest results and has
b, en- none too successful; but wherever II has
peen attempted II has been the policy of the
United States TO encourage such self govern
ment to support It, ana wherever 1t has been
practicable TO lend 1t a helping hand. That ex
pertinent has been now going ON for three years
or more upon the island of Cuba, At TIE end Of
the war the island lay NJ our mercy. By mill.
tary conquest we had possessed ourselves of 1t.
Had We determined TO hold 1t under any form
OF colonial vassaiage. power In the world
would have sought 10 interpose.
But, Mr.. President the War had been entered
upon under the limitation which In It's declara-
ton, at the instance OF the senator from Colo
RADIO lMr. Tellerl. had affirmed In the most
solemn terms that IL was not to be waged for
conquest, and that so far as cuba was concerned
the war did rot md should not involve the
selznre OF that island ms part of the Uniied
States. do not quote the language of the
Teller amendment. but that was Its purport.
The purpose of the war as Indicated by Its
declaration and the proposition of the senator
from Colorado was clear aud has been faith
fully adhered to.
The leland was ia many respects desoh,te
waste at the end of the war. IL had been har.
ried from one eide to the other by resurrection,
by transitory as well as regular military forces.
and conflicts hardly amounting to battles, but
Involving all the wasteful results OF actual war,
had devastated and brought ruin to consider.
able part of Cuba.
These conflicts had left their mark and hand
upon the island, aud It was no light task that
the patriotic men In Cuba undertook when they
set up free government and established and
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