Show PLATT AMENDMENT REJECTED TEJ THE HE CUBAN CONSTITUTIONAL L CONVENTION by a n vote v ore ot t ot t f 18 13 to 10 lO has placed itself on record as lS most m st emphatically opposed d to complying with the demands d mands of ot the Platt amendment to the th army hill JUl Especial exception Is taken en to to clauses 3 G 0 and 7 The he three paragraphs which boh the Cu bans bins particularly obnoxious ire arc That the government oC ot Cuba con consents that the United States may ex a ereIS rn e right to intervene for or the Ute preservation of ot Cuban independence inde the maintenance of a I government adequate to the protection of ot life Ufe property and Individual liberty and for the discharging of ot the obligations with re respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty ty of Paris on the United States now to tobe tobe tobe be assumed and undertaken by Cuba That the tha Isle of Pines shall be he omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries bound of ot Cuba Luba the title thereto being b loft lort to t future tut re adjustment by treaty That T to enable the tho United States to too maintain m the independence of at Cuba and at d to W protect the people thereof as as well as for its on own n defense the government of ot Cuba Cu a will sell selI or r lease f to tile United States necessary for tor coaling or 1 naval stations ns at at certain ert ln specific points to be b agreed upon with the president of ot the United States It is not to it be wondered at that the Cubans do not J ot take toke kindly tb t these demands They should never have havo been made for tor they are in violation violaU m n of ot the th spirit and letter of ot the th pledge pled made by this government at the time of the tile declaration ef of war aganet agn n t Spain aln The United States at that tune time unreservedly reservedly Wi xo to 0 give 10 Cuba Independence the Tha I he first of f these three c cla douse Li uses i in effect ae asserts a right rig t of o tit thU ts country to to 0 at a protectorate o over r the island inlaid A A government under a a i protectorate Is not an a i independent government in his to International Law thus d donnes independence Hy ny Independence we Intend to set the negative side of so sovereignty s t that is to deny df that any an other state has any amy right to Interfere with the exen ex exel el en nj Use iye p of or a n states rights and sovereign p After having C pledged our elv S g to give Cuba independence we now de demand mand of the Cubans that they recognize our right to violate our pledge Is IsIt ft It any wonder they refuse X I j jt As to the Isle Iele of Pines what r have we to demand that it be lest left out of ref tho constitutional boundaries of Cuba If after the revolution e had bidden b tr this tile country leave e Long LOlli Island outside of the Ut con con ti th sal tM t the vase case would d ha have haro been parallel to that tb t of the Isle of ot Pine Pi s and France would have ha received an answer er similar to the tha site given tins this country y by the Cubano except pt that it Is more than probable congress would have made mode it unanimous Our claim to land for Cor coaling coating stations Is so palpably unjust t as ss to make argument t against it superfluous In view of our good K od o to the th Cubans it would have hac been perfectly proper when the nIP island had been given Independence to have entered into diplomatic ne negotiations gati tiona tier fur the purchase of If such stations and d the Isle laIc Finos Pinos if the nt neAda ds of ot the country call u for them but Is IB distinctly Improper to make them thema a precedent p to our fulfilling a pledge pled which when made had no strings tied to it ft It is ift not hot to be d at that the Cubans have h ve recorded themselves s a u M oi o sed to the Platt demands When an overwhelming majority of the theU U de if with whom Governor Wood is in close touch have hate voted oled against agai t I I a ac o of oC U 01 the amendment it ft is 18 safe afe to say ay that the bulk of r the people wh who are an not ao au directly In n contact with Hh American influence e are overwhelmingly overwhelm overwhelmingly I against it |