The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-15

At Sycamore Hill -Presidcnt's Proc
IamatIOn in Form OF a Letter 20 the
Cuban Minister Refers 20 His Duty
Under the PIatt Amendmen Inter.
NentIOn II Cuba Gets the Insurroction-
AIRY Hablt-NaNy Department Orders
More NarShIps 10 GubaR Waters-z,0OO
Marines to BE Read, rs Landing Force.
OYSTER BAY, Sept. I4.-After a seven hour
conference at Sycamore Hill between the
! President, Secretary Of War Taft, Secretary
| Of the Navy B~onapsrte and Acting Secretary
Of state Bacon it was announced at 10
| o'clock tonight that the United States
would not make armed Intervention In
Cuba at once.
With this announcement came a letter
from President Roosevelt addressed to
Sen or Quesada, the Cuban Minister to the
I United States. expressing the reluctance OF
the United States to interfere in Cuban
affairs. hut threatening Intervention IL the
Cuban Republic acquired the habit Of revo-
J lnIlOD. ne ETtelANIJ diitlOhtiSCu w VIZ
Cuban Minister that Secretary Taft and
Acting Secretary Bacon were to go at once
to Cuba to investigate the situation.
Before leaving Secretary Taft said that
he and Secretary Bacon would start for
Cuba on Sunday.
The Presidents letter to Senior Quesada
follows:
SINCERE RE0ARD FOR CUBA.
aMY 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 accredited to this Govern
ment, but because you and / were intimately
drawn together at the time when the United
States interviewed in the affairs Of Cuba
with the result OF making her an indepen-
dent nation.
You know how sincere my atfectionate
admiration and regard for Cuba are. You
know that I never have done and never
shall do anything in reference to Cuba save
with such sincere regard for her welfare.
You also know the pride l felt because IL
came to me as President to withdraw the
American troops from the island OF Cuba
and officially to proclaim her independence
and to wish her godspeed in her career
as a free republic.
Il desire now through you to say a word
OF solemn warning to your people, whose
earnest well wisher | 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 menaced, for OF all
POSSIBLE evils that can befall Cuba the worst
is the evil of anarchy to which civil war
and revolutionary disturbance will as
sursdly throw he.
Whoever is responsible for armed revolt
and outrage, whoever is responsible in
any way for the condition of affairs
hat now obtains, is an enemy OF Cuba,
and doubly heavy is the responsibility Of
the man who. affecting to be the especial
champion Of Cuban independence, takes
any step which will ~jeopardize that indie
pendence. For there is just one way in
which Cuban independence can be jeopar-
died, and that is for the Cuban people to
show their inability to continue in their
path Of peaceful and orderly progress.
WHAT WE DEMAND OF CUBA.
This nation asks nothing Of Cuba, save
that it shall continue to develop as it has
developed during the last seven years, that
IL shall know and practice the orderly liberty
which will assuredly bring an ever in
creasing measure OF peace and prosperity
to the beautiful Queen Of the Antilles.
pOur Intervention in Cuban affairs will
only come if Cuba herself shows that she
has fallen into the insurrectionary habit
that she lacks the self-restraint necessary
to secure peaceful selr-government and
that her contending factions have plunged
the country into anarchy.
Il soismniy adjure all Cuban patriots 20
band together to sink all differences and
personal ambitions and to remember that
the only way that they can preserve the
independence Of their Republic is to prevent
the necessity Of outside interference 10y
r~escuing it from the anarchy Of civil war.
Il earnestly hope that this word Of adj
Duration OF mine, given in the name OF the
American people, the stanchest friends and
well wishers OF Cuba that there are in all
the world, will be taken "a il is meant. will
be seriously considered and will be acted
upon, and IL so acted upon Cuba's permanent
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