Show SYMPATHY FOR CUBAN PATRIONS Strong Expressions Made at Philadelphia Last Night CONGRESS CALLED UPON I MANY PRO3UXEXT CUB ASS WERE AT THE MEETING Governor Matthews One of the Sneakers Quecdu Follows in n Stirriiifi Appeal au l Kerr Believes Be-lieves That I There is n Country We Ought to Defitlsc nUll Bare Our Breasts to Their Bullets it is Si > ain PHILADELPHIA Pa Nov 21he strongest and most outspoken expressions expres-sions of sympathy for Cuba yet made in this city was heard tonight at a meeting at the Academy of Music under un-der the auspices of the Philadelphia brigade and in aid of their Antietam monument fund The speakers were Governor Matthews of Indiana General Gonzalio de Quesada secretary of the revolutionary party in the United States and Captain W W Kerr owner of the steamer Laurada Strong resolutions were adopted calling call-ing upon congress immediately after convening to request President Cleveland Cleve-land to recognize the Cuban republic without delay General Palma minister minis-ter plenipotentiary of the Cuban republic re-public and a number of prominent local lo-cal Cubans were present SimiiLsH Misrule Governor Matthews said in part The pages of history nowhere reveal mere atrocious crimes against humanity hu-manity more cruel warfare or wicked oppression more examples of outraged truth and justice nor greater crimes I against all Christian civilization than I have marked Spanish misrule and despotism in Cuba A gem upon the sem upn seas i wfruld have been a mine of I wealth to its possessors through the fostering care of home rule and would have well replenished the depleted i i treasury of a decayed and effete nation j na-tion But the reverse has been true I With but the selfish greed of revenue j I Cuba has been drained and robbed I wad despoiled until in the destruction of her own prosperity crushing out the hopes and ambitions and energies of her people she scarcely yields revenue j I to the greedy oppressor Debt upon I debt has accumulated reaching the enormous sum of over 100 per capita I The system of taxation is the most j I oppressive brutal and degrading ever instituted by any government Burdensome Bur-densome taxes are laiti upon all trade t I upon every industry and enterprise j i i upon public business and domestic life upon the dome the cradle and the i J grave Its exercise breeds corruption j I j and bribery in the public official I and the inhabitant excluded from holding even the humblest office is robbed of the last remnant of political civil and i I religious Tiberfty All revenues derived j de-rived from taxes must flow to Spain through Spanish officials an1 there j j the Cuban must pay for the privilege i of both buying and selling For nearly i four hundred years a it been so with nothing expended for Cubas development I develop-ment her taxes onVy serving to furn ish means for still greater oppression i end to more firmly rivet the chains j Which and shame bound her in her degradation I Xot Half So Bail The wrongs against which we re belled were not half so grievous nor the barbarous cruelties nearly so great and yet the same great principles princi-ples are involved that aroused to action arouse tion our same fathers in 1776 Yet with all disadvantages the Cuban pa triot has been brave and has fought a good fight I Her sons have inhaled the atmosphere atmos-phere of this liberty loving country and their souls have been enkindled with the fires whfeh we have lighted There is presented to us a question queston which we cannot weB escape a r coming across the waters for sympathy I and for aid to which we cannot much longer close our ears aittd hearts I This appeal comes direct to ua I There are appeals for help at times tmes when it becomes almost crime not to I stretch out the hand with needed aid when aid Wen and encouragement mean salvation life peace and happiness I and their refusal is sorrow suffering degradation and death Let not my words be construed into reflection or criticism on our crltcism government govern-ment I have an abiding faith in the eternal principles of our government I and in the courage the justice and the iSm of the men whom we have i i chosen to direct its affairs In good I I time they will do that whidh seemeth I to them right and just and wise and i recognize the duty and obligation rest I I I ing upon the great republic of the I world When it is asked that belligerent belliger-ent rights be heartily and speedily accorded ac-corded to the Ions suffering defenders or Ouban freedom It is that they may I have a broader opportunity to present their Claims to the world subject 13 I to the rules of civilized warfare With 1 Withs these accorded the question of inde pendence will be for after consldera Ii I i i tion when bravely and worthily I orthiy J merited What claim I ask has 1 i 1 Spain upon the further indulgence of 1 t I the civilized nations of mankind It I would at least be difficult to conceive i i that any mode of I 3Y government could i be worse for Cuba than that coul i would now spurn Nor is the question j i 1 i of annexation to < be considered annexaton Ie onsiere at this i time nor whether Cuba may place an 11 other star upon the blue field of our fel oUr national flag It is the i latonal fag purer more I unselfish question of national liberty i of human rights and of broad hu i manity v A Generous Sympathy 1 AVe as a government witH high a regard re-gard for national honor and national dignity may > be reserved conserva tire and diplomatic but as Jrtdividuail onsenn Citizens we may span the dividing waters with a hopeful generous ih hopeful sympathy sym-pathy and bid Godspeed to the Cuban patriot in his sublime hope and his holy ambition His cause is ambion C3Use just the right shall shal prevail and in Gods own time Cuba will be free General Quesada followed in a stirring stir-ring appeal for the sympathy of the American people Captain Kerr In his speech said I there is a country on Gods earth we ought to despise and bare our breasts to their bullets it is Spain Concluding he said Vessels will wi leave this country every day and land arms ammunition and men on Cubas Cbas shores until she is free and if Spain will wait ten days she will hear of another expedition being landed General Frazier chairman of the meeting announced at its close that he had just received word from Con greasmani Amos Cummings of New York that he was at that moment preparing pre-paring a resolution to present tov congress con-gress recognizing Cuba h Spanish Atrocities TAMPA Fla Nov 21 Colonel Fernando nando Figueredo the Cuban leader of i this city is in receipt of a letter from Havana giving details of atrocities committed by Spanish commite soldiers in Ma tanzas province 13 Colonel Melino wh commands a Spanish regiment recently encoun tered the advance guard of Gomez army in Matanzas n was defeated Jk While the soldiers under Melino were in retreat they met a group of women and children near a little town called Cayoplno As the soldiers passed one of the women made a sneering remark dbout the Spaniards The remark was overheard by the soldiers and so enraged en-raged them that they fell upon the women and children and butchered every one of them There were ten women and about a dozen children in the group The letter says that the Spaniards after shooting down their victims stabbed them with wih bayonets inflicting the most horrible wounds One baby was killed at its mothers breast and the bullet that passed through the infant also killed the I mother I Colonel Melino made no report of the butchery but it happened that two of the women murdered were wives of Spaniards engaged dn the sawmill business in Matanzas When the husbands learned how their loved ones had been butchered they wrote to Martinez de Campos informing him of the horrible affair and demanded that Colonel Melino be punished I is said that Campos has ordered that Melino be courtmartialed and it is thought the butcher will be sen tenced to death as the massacre is condemned as bitterly by Spaniards as by Cubans |