The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-23
INTERVENTION NOT
ONLY RIGHT BUT
OUR DUTY
SENATOR BEVERlDGE, IN OPEN
ING OF ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN
SPEAKS OF CUBA.
ANNEXATION TO FOLLOW
Our interference and the u. S. Flag
Once Up viii Never Again Be
Hauled Down--AIso Takes a
Slap at Bryan.

| Chicago III, Sept o. Senator AL
bert J Beveridge, of Indiana. tonigh
Iopened the Republca congress ON
Ial campaign in the middle west by de
livering an address in the Auditorium
Iunder he auspices of the Hamilton
Club Of this city.
The senator was given an enthu
sastlc reception. large number OF
Republican politicians were on the
platform during the meeting. among
hem heing: Senator Hopkins. of Hi
nois Senator Hemingway. of Indiana
and the following congressman: Camp.
bell, OF Kansas; Townsend, Hamilton
and William Alden Smith, Of Michi.
gam; Often, Of Wisconsin. and Mad.
den, Wilson and Mckinley, Of Illinois.
Speaking on the Cuban situation
BeVerdge. in part, said:
To-day every Cuban patrlot and
Eeyery American citizen reufieraAl isnsa ( :
to the AAsseeing Director of hrman
ahairs for the Plat amendment II
gives us IN our own law and In the
fundamental ordinance Of Cuba power
70 deal with those events which every
student knew wee abaomtely Ger.
ain to transpire.
II gave ns not only the mower hut
laid upon us the duty to meet Tho
present emergency. Not only were we
gwen coaling station ns-that was a
measure of national safety: not only
Were we given practical supervision
over Cuba's foreign reatians--fhat
was measure Of national prudence.
not only were we gwen power owe.
'ubas sanitation-that was a matter
0f national health not only wera we
given power over cuban foreign deAts
that was measure of national
hnnance But We were given power 10
send American soldiers TO this go
graphical annex OF Florida whom
Ingle house was burned and single
nan was Killed if in ha judgment OF
the American government the Gu
ban government was no longer efTe..
tive and social order dissolved.
When any man SCOTS al the idea Of
a divin direction # American states
men in the great crisis of our history
Ief him read the Tiatt amendment
and 'cll ua who inspired that i'm
mortal document lie him read 1t by
he ilamcs of Cuban ,owers burned in
the pas on of contcuding factions
let IL b. interpreted TO him by the I
'atile of musketry within hearing of F.
ne presidents palace Havana Let
lim read 10 in the payers Of an in, 4
eiilgent Cuhans who pray for thai I
which T. the common heritage Of an |
Americans-life liberty and tha pur
I.t OF happiness.
Not Only Right But Duty.
The Platt amendment no only I,
ives us the power Uut lays upon n 1
he duty of intervention il The Cuban \
eopie fail in their experiment Of fre (
oyemmeui, for free government s. /,
be important thing 20 The Cubaa neo.
ie and an be world knows that if i
nbans fail in free rovcnm -nt Anne l. I.
an Intervention means free govern I,
sent u = practical liberty for which
7ankInd yraye--n-t theoretical ,
berty as conceived by cioistcred ,
reamars: and a practical liberty is
hat the American flag mean
-hercyer b. float Cuban trah "a ,
.uc1 To- us million IF dollars today t,
ad hundreds Of millions in the fl =
ire. and this IS important. But Gu :
3n trade is nothing - the American
sople compared win tnc realization .
those Am arican ideals Of lib rtv !,
, preserve and plead which the t.
meTican people were established oa !
Iis ear D ana American institutions r
ere devised.
Gift OF Practical Liberty.
And practical nb5ty is what the i,
ne-ican people mean that Cuba ;.
-al have We prefer that they shall /,
sveiop 30 by themselres have 4
sl i1 plenty % perform. duties n b
entT o discaare But if they can j
Is rC8' re b. fhtcse-rCs we VIII .,
aiize it fo- theu. There is 70 bsr 4
N t>o great for t1e amer an people +
bear. for Ne az a Nation have :
armed what every individual has