The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-15
|GUBANS WARNED
BY ROOSEVELT.
Tells Minister ssussada In
surrectiOn Must Stop.
INTERVENTION SUGGESTED
Imperative For Islands Sake
That HostiIities Cease.
TAFT AND BACON SENT TO HAVANA

Secretary Of War, With Assistant See-
rotary, to Investigate Situation For
United States Government-President
Processes Sincere Affection and Ad-
miration, For Cuba and Says This Ma
tion Seeks Only Its Orderly Develop
ment, Peace and djures
Island Patriots to Sink Differences
and Personal Ambitions = Cannot
Shirk Duty to intervene Imposed on
Him by Treaty - Gordon of United
States Warships to Surround Dis
turbed Country.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, Sept. 15.-In a let
ter to Senor Don Gonzalo de Quesada,
Cuban minister to the United States,
President Roosevelt, after protesting
his personal friendship and that of this
country for Cuba, warns the minister
that unless there shall be an immediate
cessation of hostilities he will consider
1t his duty to intervene in the affairs
of the Cuban republic.
Il am sending to Havana" says the
presidents letter, "the secretary of
war, Mr.. Taft, and the assistant secre-
tary of state, Mr.. Bacon, as the special
representatives of this government,
who will render such aid as is possible
toward these ends
President RooseveIt's Letter.
Presidents Roosevelt's letter is word
ed as follows:
My Dear Senior Quesada-In this
crisis in the affairs of the republic of
Cuba l write you, not merely because
you are the minister of Cuba accred-
tied to this government, but because
you and l were intimately drawn to-
gether at the time when the United
States intervened in the affairs of Gu
ba, 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 never have done and never shall
do anything in reference to Cuba save
with such sincere regard for her well
fare. You also know the pride I felt
because it came to me as president to
withdraw the American troops from
the island of Cuba and officially to pro-
claim her independence and to wish
her godspeed in her career as free
republic
Wishes Well to island.
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word of solemn warning to your peo-
pie, whose earnest wellwisher 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 have
obtained under her own independent
government. Her peace, prosperity
and independence are now nlenaced,
for of all possible evils that can befall
Cuba the worst is the evil of anarchy,
into which civil war and revolutionary
disturbances will assurely throw her.
Whoever is responsible for armed
revolution and outrage, whoever is re-
sponsible in any way for the condition
of the affairs that now obtains, is an
enemy Of Cuba, and daubly heavy Is
the responsibility of the man who, af-
fecting to be the especial champion of
Cuban independence, takes any step
which will jeopardize that independ-
ence, for there is just one way in
which Cuban independence can be Sc
cured, and that is for the Cuban peo-
pie to show their ability TO continue
in their path of peaceful and orderly
progress
"This nation asks nothing Of Cuba
save that it shall continue to develop
as 1t has developed during the past
seven years; that itshall know and
practice the orderly liberty which will
| assuredly bring an ever increasing
measure OF peace and prosperity to the
beautiful queen of the Antilles. Our
| intervention in Cuban affairs will only
come If Cuba herself shows that she
has fallen into the insurrectionary hab-
It. that she lacks the self restraint
necessary TO peaceful self government
and that her contending factions have
plunged the country into anarchy.
Appeals to Cuban Patriots.
Il solemnly adjure all Cuban pa
triots to band together to sink all diff
ferences and personal ambitions and to
remember that the only way that they
can preserve the independence of the
republic is to prevent the necessity of
| outside interference by reseuing 1t from
/ the anarchy of civil war. / earnestly
hope that this word Of adjuration OF
mine, given in the name of the Ameri-
can people, the stanchest friends and
wellwIshers Of Cuba that there are in
| all the world, will be taken as it Is
meant, will be seriously considered and
/ win be acted upon, and IL SO acted up
on Cuba's permanent independence
her permanent success as a republic,
/ are assured.
! ~Under the treaty win your govern.