The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
SECRETARY GOES TO- CUBA
Taft and Bacon Go to Point of
Hostiities
PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS
ouesada Forwards Presidents "Sol-
emn Warning tor Executive at
Havana-Whole Island Expected
to be Put Under U. S. Flag Unless
Hogtalities Cease. -

HaYana-Whole Island expected
to be Put Under U. S. Flag Unless
Hoetalities Cease. ~
Mr.. Quesada, the Cuban Minister
to Washington, on Saturday forward
ed to President Palma Mr. Roosevelt s
letter to him, in which he made sol
emn warning that intervention would
follow unless there was permanent
| peace and a discontinuance OF the
| destruction of American property OH
the island.
Dispatches from Washington and
Cuba and information from official
sources all make plain the fact that
the yelled threat will prove an immen-
Sc sensation in the field of armed
activity. Already it is known that
American property has been devas-
tated, American liberties threatened,
and unless there is an Immediate
change, marines will be landed from
the cruisers now in Cuban waters
and the whole island will be put I'M
der the American flag.
Mr.. Taft and assistant Secretary
Bacon started Sunday for Cuba to
an investigation of the conflict. On
their report the matter of intervention
will swing, fol- by it Pres cnt Roose-
welt will be guided.
Mr.. Roosevelt IS letter to Mr.. Que
sada, written Friday night following
an all-day conference on board the
Mayflower at Oyster Bay, is as fol-
lows:
The PRESIDENTS Letter.
Oyster Bay, Sept. II, 1906.
My Dear Senior Quesada:
In this crisis in the affairs Of the
Republic of Cuba l write you not
merely because you are Minister of
| Cuba accredited to this country, but
because you and l were frequently
drawn together at the time when the
United States ~itnervened in the af-
fairs of Cuba with the result Of max
ing her an independent nation. You
know that | never have done and
never shall do anything III reference
to Cuba save with sincerest regard
for her welfare.
You also known the pride I felt
when it came to me as President of
the United States to withdraw the
American troops from the Island of
Cuba and to officially proclaim her
independence and wish her godspeed
/ II her career as a free republic.
L desire now, through you, to say
a word of sOlmn warming to your peo-
pie, whose earnest wellwisher l am
For seven years. Cuba has been in
a condition of profound peace and of
steady growing prosperity. For -four
years this peace and prosperity have
obtained under her own independent
government. Her peace, prosperity
and independence are now menaced
for Of all possible evils that can be,
fall Cuba the worst is the evil of an.
archy, In which civil war and revo.
lutionary disturbances will assured.
ly throw her.
Whoever is responsible for armed
revolution and outrage whoever is re.
sponslbIe Ill any way for the con.
dltlon OF the affairs that now OBJ
talnS, is AN enemy to Cuba, and
doubly heavy is the responsibility
OF the mar who, affecting to be the
friends of the country's indie
p~endence, takes any step which viii
~Jeopardize that independence.
For there is just one way in whicl
Cuban independence can be secured
and that Is for the Cuban people t,
show their inability to continue il
their path Of ~acefuI and orderl,
progress.
This nation asks nothing Of Cub;
save that it shall continue to d~evelor
as it has developed during the pas
seven years, that it shall know ant
practice the orderly liberty which viii
assuredly bring an ever-increasin,
measure of peace and prosperity t.
the beautiful Queen of the Antilles.
Our intervention in Cuban affair
Will only come if Cuba herself show
that she has fallen into the ~insurrec
tlOnary habit, that she lacks the self
restraint necessary to peaceful self
government and that her contendin,
factions have plunged the country in
to anarchy.
| solemnly adjure all Cuban pa
trlots to band together, to sink al
differences and personal ambition
and to- remember that the only wa.
that they can preserve the indepen
dence of the republic is to preyen
the necessity of outside interference
by rescuing it from the anarchy o
the civil war. l earnestly hope tina
tins word of ~adjuration of min
given In the name of the America,
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