Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-15
AAED|hiiii PEACE
Roosevelt Addresses Strong Let
ter to Cuban Minister at
Washington
lust CEASE HosTILirIEs
President Calls Attention of the Re-
public as to Responsibility Uncle
Sam Has With the Island, and Inti-
mates What May Happen if Fighting
Continues.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, Sept 15.-After
the protracted conference with Secre-
tary of War Taft, Acting Secretary Of
State Bacon and Secretary Of the
Navy Ronaparte, President Roosevelt
addressed an important communica-
ton to Cuba and arranged to send
Secretary Taft and Bacon to that is
land on Sunday to make a thorough
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. 1t Is an i'm
FASHIONED 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 I'M
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.
Secretary Taft and Bacon will leave
for Cuba Sunday. They will go by rail
to Key West, Fla, and from there the
journeySto Havana will be completed
on naval vessel, probably the cruiser
Des Moines
Conference Concluded.
The conference which resulted in the
Cuban decision began at Sycamore
Hill shortly after O'Clock yesterday
afternoon and continued until 10
O'clock last night. At its conclusion
Secretaries Taft, Bonaparte and Ba-
con left for New York and will go to
Washington today.
Secretary Taft said as he left Oy-
ster Bay that he had no idea as to the
length of his visit to Cuba. He indi-.
Gated that there would be no haste III
the Investigation which would be made
there. Aside from this information NO
discussion will be divulged by those
attending the conference. the state
ment being made that the letter of the
president was intended to cRver 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.
The presidents letter follows:
RooseveIt's Letter.
MY dear Senior Quesada: In this
crisis in the affairs OF the republic OF
Cuba, / write you not merely because
you are the minister of Cuba accredit-
ed to this government, 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 important
nation. You know how sincere my
affection and admiration and regard
for Cuba are. You know that ! never
in reference to Cuba save with such
sincere regard for her welfare. You
also know the pride 1 felt because 1t
came to me as president to withdraw
the American troops from the island oe
Cuba, and officially to proclaim her
independence and to wish her God
speed in her career as a free republic.
II desire now thru you to say a word
of solemn warning to your people,
whose earnest we'll wtsher I am. For
several years Cuba has been in q con-
dition of profound peace and of stead
lily growing prosperity. For four years
this peace and prosperity have obtain
ed under her own Independent govern
ment. Her peace, prosperity and indie
pendence 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 disturb
ances will assuredly throw her. Who
ever, is responsible for armed revo-
luton 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 who, 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.
IH1S udllOIl dSIAS sllOl1llIlS VI SllUd
save that it shall continue to develop
as it has developed during the last
seven years, that it shall know and
practice the orderly liberty which will
assuredly bring an over-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 insurrectionary
habit, that she lacks the self restraint
necessary to peaceful self government
and that her contending factions have
plunged the country into anarchy.
Adjures Cuban Patriots.
81 solemnly adjure all 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 earn
estly hope that this word of adjura-
ton of mine, given in the name of the