Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-06-29
CUBA.
(By Bruce Grit.)

(By Bruce Grit)
Senator knute Nelson of Minnesota
| has just introduced a resolution in
the United States senate to enquire
into the causes of revolts in Mexico
| and Cuba and to ascertain whether
they are financed by United States
corporations, who are plotting for in
tervention and final annexation of
those countries. The resolution auth
orizes the appointment of a commit
tee of investigation, which is given
wide scope, with power to send for
persons and papers, and thus get at
the root of this matter. Senator Ba-
| con of Georgia follows with a resolu-
ton of enquiry as to the right of the
| administration to send the army into
| foreign country with the consent of
| the congress. These are two good
| resolutions, and they will have a good
effect upon the public mind and cause
| less haste in certain quarters to put
down rebellions in Cuba and Mexico,
with which Americans, SO far as the
general public knows, have had moth
| ing to do. The Nelson investigation
as to Cuba and Mexico, however, may
develop the fact that certain Amer
leans who are financially interested
and agricultural resources of these
countries, are really at the bottom of
the disturbance, which threatens to
involve this country in a war, which
may involve all the Americas and
smash the Monroe doctrine into
smithereens.
Major Martin r. Delaney, who was
one of the wisest and clearest headed
Negroes the race has produced, wrote
more than fifty years ago an able pa
per entitled "The Destiny of the Col
ored Race" in which occurs the pas
sage: Until Americans intruded
themselves into Cuba, communicating
society wherever they located, black
and colored gentlemen and ladies OF
rank mingled Unfortunately in So
ciety. But since the advent of these
Negro haters, the colored people of
Cuba have been reduced nearly, if
not quite, to the level of the miser-
able, degraded position of the colored
people of the United States, who al
most consider it a compliment and
favor to receive the notice or smiles
of white"
| 1t would be duplicity longer to dis
guise the fact that the great issue,
sooner or later, upon which must be
| disputed the worlds destiny, will be a
question of black and white: and
every individual will be called upon
| for his identity with one or the other.
The black and colored races comprise
| four-sixths of all the population of the
| world and these people are fast tend
| ing to a common cause with each 9th
er. The white races are but one-third
of the population of the globe, or one
of them to two of US, and it cannot
much longer continue that two-thirds
will passively submit to the universal
domination of this one-third. And 1t
| is notorious that the only progress
| made in territorial domain in the last
three centuries by the whites has
| been a usurpation and encroachment
on the rights and native soil of some
of the colored races.
We regret the necessity OF stating
the fact, but duty compels US to the
task, that for more than two thousand
years the determined aim OF the
whites has been to crush the colored
races whenever found. With de-
termined aim they have sought and
pursued them in every quarter OF the
globe The Anglo-Saxon has taken
the lead in the work of universal sub
mgation. But the AnglO-American
stands pre-eminent for deeds OF I'M
Justice and acts of oppression unpar-
alleled perhaps in the annals OF mod
| ern history"
To be continued next week