Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-15
,IsTANT SECRETARY BACON GOES ALSO
They Will Investigate Conditions and As
sist in Restoring Peace
PRESIDENT WRITES LETTER TO cuBANs
Importance of Maintaing Peaceful Condi-
tons is Pointed Out.
LIFE AND PROPERTY NO LONGER SAFE
PcolpIe warned rhut Continuation of
Disorder May Mean the Ultt-
mate Loss OF Their
Independence.

Independence.
OYSTER BAY. N Y, Sept. 14-After q
protracted conference with Secretary of
War Taft acting Secretary Of state Ba-
con and Secretary OF the Navy Bonaparte.
President Roosevelt tonight addressed an
important communication TO Cuba and ar
ranged to send Secretary Taft and Bacon
to that island on Sunday to make thor
| ough investigation OF conditions and lend
their influence TO restore peace
The communication is addressed to the
! Cuban minister to the United States, Senior
Quesada. 1t is an impassioned plea to
Cuba to realize her responsibilities as q
self-governing republic and to restore peace
In the island. Her attention is called In
no uncertain language to the responsible
lty which the United States bears TO the
island and the certainty that such respon-
sibility will necessarily be exercised should
peace not be preserved.
The president says he has certain In
formation that the peace OF the islands is
now menaced and that American property
has been destroyed
Taft starts sunday.
Secretary Taft and Bacon will leave for
Cuba Sunday. They will go by rail to
| Key West, Fla, and from there the Jour-
ney to Havana will be completed on a
naval vessel probably the cruiser Des
Moines.
The conference which resulted in the
Cuban decision began at Sycamore Hin
! shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon and
continued until 10 o'clock tonight At it's
conclusion Secretary Taft. Secretary Bona
| m rfa nd Uao lee
will go to Washington tomorrow.
Secretary Taft said. as he left Oyster
Bay, that he had no idea as to the length
of his visit to Cuba. He indicated that
| there would be no haste in the investiga4
| tion which should be there. Aside from
| this information no discussion will be di-
| vulged by those attending the confer
ence the statement being, made that the
letter of the president was intended TO
| cover the whole Cuban situation, as far as
| II was desirable to do so in the public
print
Senator Albert Beveridge OF Indiana a
member of the senate committee on Cuban
relations. also participated in the con-
| ference.
Presidents Letter TO Quesada.
| The presidents letter follows:
| OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Sept Any Dear
Senor Quesada; In this crisis in the affairs
of the Republic of Cuba / write you not
merely because you are the minister OF
Cuba accredited to this government. but
because you and were Intimately drswn
] together at the time when the United
States intervened in the affairs OF Cuba
with the result Of making her an inde-
| pendent nation. You know how sincere
my affection and admlration and regard
tor Cuba are you know that ! never
reference to Cuba save with such sincere
regard for her welfare. You also know
the pride ] felt because 1T came to me as
president to withdraw the American troops
| from the island OF Cuba and oficislly to
proclaim her Independence and 10 wish her
deslre now through you to say n word OF
solemn warning to your people whose
earnest well-wisher am. For seven years
peace and OF steadily growing prosperity.
For four years this peace and prosperity
government. Her peace. prosperity and in
dependence are now menaced, for OF all
possible evils that can befall Cuba, the
worst is the evil Of anarchy. into which
will assuredly throw her. Whoever is
responsible for armed revolution and out
rage, whoever Is responsible in snv Wav
| for the condition OF the affairs that now
obtains Is an enemy Of Cuba. and doubly
who affecting 10 be the especial cham
pion OF Cuban Independence, takes any step
| for there is Just one way In which Cuban
lnoepenoence can be secured, and that Is
Tor the Cuban people to show their ability
to continue in their path OF peaceful and
orderly progress.
What Cuba IL Expected to Do.
! This nation asks nothing Of Cuba save
| that II shall continue TO develop as Il has
| developed during the past seven years, that
| liberty which will Rssuredly BRING an evsr
increasing measure OF peace and pros
perity t9 the beautiful queen Of the An
will only come. II Cuba herself shows that
she has fallen into the insurrectionsl,y
habit, that she lacks the self-restrafnt
that her contending factions have plunged
the country into anarchy;
band together to sink all differences and
personal ambitions and to remember that
tIe ths only way that they can preserve the
independence OF the republic Is to pre-
vent the necessity OF outside interference
! by rescuing 1t from the anarchy OF civil
war earnestly hope that this word Of
adJuration Of mine, given In the name of
the American people, the staunchest friends
/ in ali the world, viii be taken ' as n is
4 meant, viii be seriously considered and
VII be acted upon and II 80 acted upoa
I Cuba's pfrmanent independence, her DerTnse
nent SUCCESS as a republic is assured
/ Under the treaty vita our government l.
1yS m aS 9f ss StSd wbeS ssSS hss
/ The third article OF that treay explicitly
confers upon the United States the right
Of government adequate for the protec-
tlon of life, property and Individual liberty.
/ The treaty comforting this right is the
supreme law Of the land and furnishes me
with the right and the means OF fIlfNn ng
the obligation that am under 10 project
American interests
Life Must he Protected.
The information at hand shows that the
social bonds throughout the island have
been so relaxed that life, property and in
l dlVidual liberty are no longer safe. / have
received authentic Information OF injury u,
! and destruction OF American n
Is In my judgment imperative for the sake
OF Cuba that there shall be an immediate
cessation Of hostilities and some arrange
ment which will secure the permanent
pacifcation OF the island.
4 | am sending to Havana the secretary
OF war Mr. Taft, ana the assistant sscrf-
tary or state. Mr.. Bacon, as the special rep
resentatives OF the government who will
render such aid as II possible toward these
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