The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-22
FAIR WARNING 70 CUBA.
President Roosevelt Sounds Timely Note.
Peace Must be Maintained as Pre-
reauisita of saIf-6aovernment.

requisite of SeI-GOyernment.
Oyster Bay, I. T., Sept. 15-After
protracted conference with Secretary
of w ar Taft, Acting Secretary Of State
Bacon and Secretary of the Navy
Bonaparte, President RoosevetS last
night addressed an important COM
to Cuba and arranged TO
send Secretaries Taft and Bacon to
Havana Sunday TO make thorough
investigation Of conditions and lend
their influence to restore peace.
The communication is addressed to
the Cuban minister to the United States,
Senior Quesada. Its an impressioned
plea to Cuba to realize her RESPONSE
bility as a self-goyerning republic,
and to restore peace to the island.
Her 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 ecessarily be ex-
ercised should peace not be preserved.
The president says he has Informs
ton that the peace Of the island is
now menaced.
Secretaries Taft and Bacon will
leave for Cuba Sunday. They will go
by rail to Key West, Fla, and from
there to Havana on naval vessel,
probably the cruiser Des Moines.
The conference which resulted in the
Cuban ACCESSION began at Sycamore
Hill shortly after 3 o'elock in the after
noon and continued until 10 o'clock
last night. At its conclusion Secre-
taries Taft, Bonaparte and Bacon left
for New York and will go to Wash
ington today.
Secretary Taft said as he left Oyster
Bay, that he had no idea as to the
length OF his visit to Cuba. He in
dictated that there would be no haste
ia the investig alton which would be
made there.
President Roosevelt's letter to Senior
Quesada follows:
Oyster Bay, l., l., Sept. II, 1906.
My Dear Senior Quesada-In this
crisis il the affairs OF the republic Of
Cuba, I write you not merely because
you are the minister of Cuba, ac-
credited to this government, but be-
cause you and I were intim ately 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 admir- alton
and regard for Cuba are. You know
that | never have done and never
shall do anything in reference to Cuba,
save with such sincere reg ard for her
welfare. You also know the pride I
felt because it came to me as president
to withdraw the American troops from
the Island of Cuba, and to officially
proclaim her independence and to wish
her God speed ia her career as free
republic. | desire now, through you,
to say b word of solemn warning to
your people, whose earnest well wisher
I am. For several years Cuba has
been In condition OF profound peace
and steadily growing rosperity. For
four years this peace and prosperity
have obtained under her own independ-
ent government. Her peace, pros.
perity and independence are now
men aced, for of all possible evils that
can befall Cuba, the worst is the evil
Of anarchy into which civil war and
revolutionary disturbances will as
suredly throw her. Whoever IS re-
sponsible for armed revolution and
outrage; whoever is responsible in
any way for the condition that now
obtains, is an enemy OF Cuba, who
while affecting to be the champions oil
independence, takes the very step
which will jeoparidize that indie.
pendence. For there is just one way
ia which Cuban independence can be
secured, and that is for the Cuban
people to show their ability to con-
tinue in their path of peaceful and or
binary progress.
Our Intervention ii Cuban affairs
will only come if Cuba herself shows
that she has fallen into the insurree-
tlonary habit. that she lacks the self
restraint necessary for peaceful gov
eminent, and that her contending fac
tlons have plunged the country in
anxiety.
I solemnly adiure all Cuban patriots
to band together, to sink all differ
ences and personal ambitions, and to
remember that the only way that they
can preserve the independence of the
republic IS to prevent the necessity
OF outside interference by reseuing ii
from civil war. earnestly hope that
this word of adjuration of mine, given
in the name Of the American people.
the staunchest friends and we'll Wishers
Of Cuba that there are ia all the world,
will be taken as it is meant; will be
seriously considered and will be acted
upon and if so acted upon, Cuba's
permanent independence, her perman-
ent success as republic are assured.
Under the treaty with your govern
ment, {, as president OF the United