The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-15
PRESIDENT WRITES
 10 CUBAN MINISTER
RESULT OF LONG CONFERENCE WITH CABINET MEMBERS AT
 OYSTER BAK.

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 Oyster Bay, N. r., Sept 14,-Atter a protracted conference with Secretaries Taft. Bacon and Bonaparte, represent ing the war, state and navy depart ments, President Roosevelt tonight ad- dressed an important communication to Cuba and arranged to send Secretaries Taft and Bacon to that island on Sun day to make a thorough investigation of conditions there and lend their in- f1uence to restore peace.
 The communication is addressed to the Cuban minister to the United States, Senor Quesada. It is an im- passioned plea to Cuba to realize her responsibility as a self-governing re- public and to restore peace in the is- land Her attention is called in no un> certain language to the responsibility which the United States bears to the island and the certainty that such re- sponsibility will necessarily be eXer- cised 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,
 Secretaries Taft and Bacon will leave for Cuba Sunday They will go 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 resGlted in the Cuban decision began at Sagamore Fill shortly after o'clock this afternoon and continued until 10 o'clock tonight. At it's conclusion Secretaries Taft, Bonaparte and Bacon left for New York, and will go to Washington to- morrow. Secretary Taft said as he left oyster Bay that he had no idea as to the length of his visit to Cuba. He in- dicated that there would be no haste in the investigation which would be made there. Aside from this informa- tion no discussion will be indulged by those attending the conference, the statement being made that the letter of the president was intended to cover the whole Cuban situation so far as it 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 conference.
 Oyster May N. r., Sept 1.-The fol- lowing letter from President Roosevelt to senar Quesada, Cuban minister to the United States, was given out to- night.
 Oyster Bay, N, Y, Sept. IA, 1906;
 My dear Senor Quesada; In this crisis in the affairs of the republic of Cuba, I write you, not merely because you are the minister of Cuba accredited to this government, but because you and I were intimately drawn together at the time when the United States intervened 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 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 felt because it came to me as president t1 withdraw the American troops of the island of Cuba and officially to pros claim her independence and to wish her Godspeed in her career as a free re- public I desire now through you to say a word of solemn warning to your people. whose earnest well wisher 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 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 rev. olution and outrage; whoever is respon- sible in any way for the condition of affairs that now obtains, is an enemy of Cuba, and doubly heavy is the re- sponsibility of the man wto, affecting to be the especial champion of Cuban independence takes any step which will jeopardize that independence. For there is just one way in which Cuban independence can be secured, and that is for the Cuban people to show their ability to continue in their path of peaceful and orderly progress. This na- tion asks nothing of Cuba, save that it shall continue to develop as it has de- veloped during the past seven years. that 1t shall know and practice the or derly liberty which will assuredly bring about 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 reactionary habit; that she lacks the self restraint necessary to peace ful self-government and that her con- tending factions have plunged the country into anarchy.
 I solemnly adjure ali Cuban patriots to band together to 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 in the name of the Ameri-
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