Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-15
Secretaries Taft and Bacon
Will Bear Message
From President Roosevelt to
the People Of Cuba.
u Psaes Is Not Soon Restored Intervention
May Follow, Il is Rinied.

oyster Bay. Sept. 14.-After a nra-
tracted conference with Secretaria-
lait, Bacon and Bonaparte, represent
ihs 'he war, state and navy depart
ihents. President Roosevelt tonight ad
dressed an important communication
10 cuba and arranged to send Secre-
tdfy raft and Secretary Bacon to that
Island on Sunday to make a thorough
investigation of conditions there AMI
lend their influence to restore peace.
Inc communication is addressed In
the Cuban minister to the Unite 1
States, Senior Quesada. 1t is an impas
stoned plea to Cuba to realize her re-
sponsiDility as Il Self-governing repub-
Tic and to restore Ieace in the island
tier attention is called in no uncer-
tain language to the responsibility
which the United States bears to the
island and the certainty that such
responsibility will necessarily be ex-
ercised should peace not be preserved.
Secretaries Taft and Bacon will leave
for Cuba Sunday. They will go by rail
to Key West. Florida, and from there
the journey to Havana will be comple:
ed on naval vessel. probably the
cruiser Des MOines.
Secretary Taft said, as he left Oys-
ter Bay, that he had no idea as to the
length Of his visit to Cuba He init
mated that there would be no haste
IN the investigation, which would be
made thorough.
The following letter from President
Roosevelt to Senior Quesada, Cuban
minister to the United States, was Civ
en- out tonight:
Oyster Bay, N. Y. Sept. II.
My Dear Senior Quesada:
I'm this crisis the affairs of the re-
public of Cuba | write you, not mere
ly because You are the minister OF
|uba accredited to this government
because YOU and l were Intimately
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
| now sincere my affection and adora
| ton and regard for Cuba are. You
| know that never have done and never
| shall do anything in reference 10 Cub;
| save with such sincere regard for hei
welfare. You also know the pride
/ felt because it came to me as President
to withdraw the American troops from
the island of Cuba and officially IL
| proclaim her indepe ndent and TO wish
her God speed on her career as q free
Irepublic-
II desire now through you to say q
| word Of solemn usirning to'yotlr people
whose earnest well-wisher | am. Fol
several years Cuba has been in a con
dition Of profound peace and of stead
lily growing prosperity. For four year
this peace and prosperity have OBJ
tanned under her own Independent
lgoyernment. Her Teace. prosperity an,
Iindependence are now menaced. for O
IaU possible evils that can befall Cuba
the worst is the evil of anarchy, int
which civil war and revolutionary dis
Iturbances will aSSuredly throw her
Whoever is responsible for arme;
revolution and outrage. whoever is re
sponsible in any way for the condition
of affairs that now obtains. is an en-
envy Of Cuba and doubiy heavy is TIN
responsibility of the man who. affect
ling to be the especial champion %
} Cuban independence. takes any ste
which will jeopardiZe that independ
} ence. For there is just one way II
/. (which Cuban independence can be Sc
cured and that is for the Cuban poop!
to show their ability to continue Il
their path of peaceful and orderly pro
IgresS.
This nation asks nothing of CUBA
save that il shall continue TO deVeio
as it has developed during the pas
lsayen wears, that it shall know an
Ipractice the orderly liberty when WI
lassuredly bring an eVer-lncreasil'
measure Of peace and prosperity 10 IN
lhaautiful Queen of the Antilles. Ou
Intervention in Cuban affairs Will on
Icome If Cuba herself shows tnat si'
has fallen into the insurrectionary nap
l;t that she lacks the self-restrain
lpec,ssary to peaceful self-goVernmen'
and that her contending factions nay
\ nlun,.ed the country into anarchy.
so,emn,y adiure al Cuban patriotS L
hana togctner to sink all difference
and ne,sonal ambition and to reinem
her that the only way that they ca
lnr.sa,ye the Independence of the We
,,,,;o &c IN preyent the necessity q
nntsiLa interference by rescuing
from the anarchy of ciVii war.
81 earnestly hope that this word
admiration of mine, given III 'iie nan
| of the American people, the S,a
friends and well-WiShers OF oupa' '"'
lther. are in all the world, VIII ne 'aN
en- as it is meant. will be seriously ''''
sidered and will be acted upon anu
SO acted upon Cuba's permanent ','u'
nendence. her permanent success %
republic are assured.
Under the treaty with your goveIl
imont I as President of the o1i.e
Estates. have duty in this mat.'
which 7 cannot shirk. The third ART
c,a Of that treaty explicitly confer
upon the United states the right =, or -
vi terefere for the maintenance IN oul
of a government adequate for the ;, p, !,
lection OF life, property and indiviaa
liberty. The treaty comforting u, III
risht is the supreme law of the ial
Lar, furnishes me with the rlen' a.