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ROOSEVELT MAKES MOVE
FOR PEACE IN CUBA
Sends Taft and Bacon to Havana
in Haste.
PLATT AMENDMENT AUTHORITY
President Warns Cubans That We
May Intermediates to senior
Qucsada, Cuban Minister to the
United States.

QucSSua, CuDuu NIiNlSseE " 'hS'
United States.
Oyster Bay, N. Y.-As the result OF
a six-hour conference at Sycamore
Hill between President Roosevelt,
Secretary of War Taft, Secretary of
the Navy Bonaparte and Acting Sec
retary of State Bacon, Messrs. Taft
and Bacon were directed to start at
once for Cuba as the special repre-
sentatives of the American Govern
ment. It will be their mission to
make thorough investigation and
to render such aid as may be neces-
sary to the task of bringing about an
immediate cessation of hostilities and
the permanent pacification of the ISL
and, whic, is declared by the Presl-
dent to be imperative.
This decision was made public by
means of the following letter to Senor
Quesada, the Cuban Minister to the
United States, which was given out
by Secretary Loeb:
"In this crisis in the affairs of the
Republic of Cuba I write you not
merely because you are the Minister
of Cuba accredited to this Govern
ment, but because you and l were in
timately drawn together at the time
when the United States intervened in
the affairs of Cuba, with the result of
making her an independent nation.
You know how sincere my affection
and admiration and regard for Cuba
are. You know that have never d one
and never shall do anything in refer
ence to Cuba save with such sincere
regard for her welfare. You also know
the pride I felt because 1t came to me
as President to withdraw the Amer
icans troops from the Island Of Cuba
and officially to proclaim her 1nde-
pendence, and to wish her godspeed
in her career as a free Republic. l
desire now, through you, to say a
word of solemn warninggto your peo-
pie, whose earnest well-wisher I am.
For seven years Cuba has been in a
condition of profound peace and Of
steadily growing prosperity. For four
years this peace and prosperity lave
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
anarchy into which civil war and rev.
olutionary disturbances will assured
ly throw her. Whoever is responsible
for armed revolution and outrage,
whoever is responsible in any way for
the condition of the affairs that now
obtains is an enemy Of Cuba. and
double heavy is the responsibility OF
the man who, affecting to be the es-
pecial champion of Cuban independ-
ence, takes any step which will leop-
ardize that independence. '
Under tie treaty with .-our Gov
ernment, I, as President of the United
States, Lave q. duty in this matter
which I canrc: shirk. The third arti-
rle of that treaty explicitly coufers
upon the United States the right to
intervene for the maintenance in
Cuba of a Government adequate for
the protection of life. property and
Individual liberty. The treaty con-
ferring this right is the supreme law
of the l1nd and furnishes me With
the right and the means Of fulfilling
the obligation that am under to pro-
tect American interests. The iIfor-
nation at hand shows that the social
bonds throughout the island have
been so relaxed that life, property
and individual liberty arc no longer
safe.
81 have received authentic infor-
nation of injury to and destruction
of American property. 1t is in my
Judgment imperative for the sake of
Cuba that there shall be immediate
cessation of ho,:ilities and some ar
rangement which will secure the per-
manent pacification Of the island"