The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
LETTER TO CUbANS
President Roosevelt Gives Out His
Views, Policies and Intentions
as to Intervention.
CLEAN CUT And DECISIVE
Has Duty He Cannot Shirk and
Unless the Islanders Immediately
Show Ability to Maintain Order
VIII Assume Control.

Oyster Bay. Sept. 15.-After pro
tracted conference with Secretary OF
War Taft, acting Secretary of State
Bacon and Secretary of the Navy
Donaparte, President Roosevelt Fri
day night addressed an important COM
munication to Cuba and arranged to
send Secretary Taft and Bacon to that
island on Sunday to make 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
responsibilities as a selfgoverning
republic and to restore peace in the
island He attention is called in no
uncertain language to the RESPONSE
bility which the United States bears
to the island and the certainty that
such responsibility will necessarily
be exercised should peace not be pre-
served
The president says he has certain
information that the peace of the is
land is now menaced and that Amer
lean property has been destroyed.
Oyster Bay, Sept. 14.-My dear Sen
or Quesada: In this crisis in the af-
fairs 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 drawn together at the
time when the United States inter-
veaed in the affairs of Cuba with the
result of making her an Independent
nation. You know how sincere my
affactiCn and admiration and regard
for Cuba are; you know that never
nave done ana never shall do any
thing in reference to Cuba save with
such sincere regard for her welfare.
You also know the pride | felt be-
cause it came to me as president to
withdraw the American troops from
the island of Cuba and officially to
proclaim her independence and to wish
ner Gcd speed in 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. For seven years Cuba has been
in a condition of profound peace and
OF steadily growing prosperity. For
four years this peace and prosperity
nave obtained under her own indie
pendent government. Her peace, pros
perity 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 disturbances will assur-
eddy throw her, whoever is responsible
for armed revolution and outrage,
whoever is rcspon ;ible in any way
for the condition of the affairs that
now obtains, is an enemy of Cuba, and
doubly neavy is the responsibility of
the man, affecting to be the especial
champion of Cuban independence. who
takes, any step which will jeopardize
that independence. For there is Just
one way in which Cuban independ-
cnce can be secured and that is for the
Cuban people to show their ability
70 continue in their path of peaceful
and orderly progress. This nation
asks nothing of Cuba save TIT II
.hall continue to develop as it mas de-
velopeI during the past seven years,
The; it shall know and practice the
orderly liberty which will assuredly
bring an ever increasing measure OF
reace and prosperity 20 the beautiful.
queen OF the Antilles. Our interven-
ton in Cuban affairs will only come
il Cuba herself shows that she has
fallen into the insurrectionary habit,
that she lacks the self restraint neces-
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