Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-09-21
WANTS WARING
PUT TO AN END
ROOSEVELT WRITES LETTER TO
SENIOR CUESADA.
u. 5. MIGHT INTERFERE
Vans Them, if Necessary the United
States Will Intervene Sends Taft
and Bacon to the Island for Con-
ference.


welt addressed an important communi-
cation to Cuba, and arranged to send
Secretaries Taft and Bacon to that
island to make thorough investiga-
tion Of conditions there and lend their
influence to restore peace.
"Oyster Bay, n. Y, Sept. IA, 1906.
"My Dear Senior Quesada: In this
crisis in the affairs of the Republic
of Cuba, | write you not merely be-
cause you are the Minister of Cuba
accredited to this government, but
because you and | were intimately
drawn together 1T the time when the
United States inter~cned in the -af-
fairs Of Cuba with the result of MAX
ing her an independent nation. You
know how sincere my affection and
admiration and regard for Cuban are.
You know that | never have done
and never snail do anything in ref
erence to Cuba save with such sin
cere regard to her 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 to officially proclaim
her independence and to wish her
godspeed in her career as free re-
public. | dsire now, through you, to
say a word Of solemn warning to
your people, whose earnest well-wish-
er | am.
"For seven years Cuba has been
in a condition of profound peace AMI
of steadily growing prosperity. For
four years this peace and prosperity
have remained under her own indepen
dent 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 Ill any
way for the condition that now ex-
lists, is an enemy of Cuba, and dou-
bly, heavy is the responsibility 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 served and that is for the Gu
ban people to show their ability to
continue In their path of peaceful and
ordinary progress. This nation asks
nothing of Cuba save that it shall
continue to develop as it has devel-
oped during the. past seven years
that it shall know and practice the
ordinary liberty liberty which will as
suredly bring an ever increasing meas
ure of peace and prosperity to the
beautiful Queen Of the Antilles. Our
Intervention in Cuban affairs will on
ly come if Cuba shows that she has
fallen into the insurrectionary hab-
it; that she lacks the self-restraint
necessary to peaceful self-government
and that her contending factions have
plunged the country into anarchy.
1T solemnly adjure all Cuban pa
triots to baad together, to sink all
difference and personal ambitions and
Ito remember that the only way that
they can preserve the independence
of the Republic is to prevent the ne
cessity Of outside interference by res
cuing the country from the anarchy
pf civil war;. | earnestly hope that
This word of adjuration of mine given
in the name Of the American people,
the staunchest trends and well-wisheh
of Cuba that there are in all the world
will be taken as it is meant; will be
seriously considered and will be act
ed upon, and if so acted upon, Gu
ba's permanent independence, her per
.manent success as a republic are as
sured.
"Under the treaty with your Gov
ernment. /, as President of the
United States, have duty in this
matter which | cannot shirk. The
third article in that treaty implicit
ly confers upon the United States
the right to intervene for the main
tenaace in Cuba of government
adequate fqg the protection of life
property and Individual liberty. The
treaty comforting this right is the SUI
preme law of the land, and furnishes
me with the right and the means OF
fulfilling the obligation that | am