The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-15


tracted conference with Secretary of
War Taft. acting Secretary of State
Bacon and Secretary of the Navy Bon
aparte, President Roosevelt tonight adj
dressed an important communication to
cuba and arranged TO send Secretary
Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon to
that island on Sunday to make a thor
ough investigation of conditions there
and lend their influence to restore
peace.
The communication is addressed to
the Cuban minister to the United
states, Senior Quesada. II is an impas-
stoned plea to Cuba to realize her re-
sponsibilities as a self-governing re-
public and to restore peace i'm the ISL
and. Her attention is called in no UNI
certain language to the responsibility
which the United States bears to the
island and the certainty that response
bility will necessarily be exercised
should peace not be preserved.
The president says he has certain in
formation that the peace of the island
is now menaced and that American
property has been destroyed.
Will Start Sunday.
Secretary Taft and Mr.. Bacon will
leave for Cuba Sunday. They will so
by rail to Key West, Fla. and from
there the journey to Havana will be
completed on a naval vessel probably
the cruiser Des Moines.
The conference which resulted i'm the
Cuban decision began at Sycamore Hill
shortly after o'clock this afternoon
and continued until 10 o'clock tonight.
At its conclusion Secretary Taft. Sec
rotary Bonaparte and Assistant Secre-
tary Bacon left for New York and will
go to Washington tomorrow.
Secretary Taft said, as he left Oys-
ter Bay, that he had no idea as to the
length of his visit to Cuba He indi-
Gated that there would be no haste i'm
the investigation. which would be thor
ough. Aside from this information no
discussion will be divulged by those
attending the conference. the statement
being made that the letter of the pres
ident was intended To cover the whole
Cuban situation. as far as it was de-
sirable To do so I'm the public print.
Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana
member of the senate committee on
Cuban relations. also participated in
the conference.
Roosevelt's Letter.
Following is President Roosevelts
letter:
Oyster Bay. Sept. 14.-My Dear
affairs of the republic of Cuba l write
you, not merely because you are the
minister of Cuba accredited to this gov
eminent. but because we were init
mately drawn together at the time
when the United States interviewed in
the affairs of Cuba with the result of
making her an independent nation. You
know how sincere my affection and ad-
miration and regard for Cuba are you
know that never have done and never
shall do anything i'm reference to Cuba
save with such sincere regard for her
welfare. You also know the pride I
felt because il 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 gOd-speed i'm her career as a free
republic. ! desire now, through you. to
say a word Of solemn warning TO your
people. whose earnest well-wisher !
am.
Seven Years of Peace.
For seven years Cuba has been i'm
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 into
which civil war and revolutionary dis
tUrbances will assuredly throw her.
Whoever is responsible for armed revo-
luton and outrage, whoever is respon-
sible I'm any way for the condition of
affairs that now obtains. is an enemy
Of Cuba. and douby heavy is the re-
spOnsibility of the man. affecting to be
the especial champion of Cuban indie
pendence, who takes any step which
will jeopardize that independence. For
there is just one way I'm which Cuban
Independence can be secure. and that
is for the Cuban people TO show their
ability TO continue i'm their path of
peaceful and orderly progress. This ma
ton asks nothing Of Cuba save that il
shall continue to develop as il has de-
Veloped during the past seven years,
that Il shall know and practice the or
derby liberty which will assuredly bring
an ever-increasing measure. OF peace
and prosperity TO the beautiful Queen
of the Antilles Our Intervention i'm
Cuban affairs will only come IL Cuba
herself shows that she has fallen into
the insurrectionary habit; that she
lacks the self-restraint necessary To
peaceful self-government and that her
contending factions have plunged the
country into anarchy.
Urged to Sink Differences.
'T solemnIy adjure all Cuban patriots
10 hand together. 10 sink all differences
and personal ambitions and to remem-
Der that the only way that they can
preserve the independence of the re-
public is to prevent the necessity of
outside interference by rescuing it from
the anarchy Of civil war. I earnestly
hope that this word Of adjuration of
mine given inethe name of the Amer
lean people. the stanchest friends and
well-wishers of Cuba that there are i'm
all the world. will be taken as il is
meant: will be seriously considered and
will be acted upon. and if so acted upon
hCuba's permanent independence, her
E5rmanent success as a republic, are
Tsured.