| Show CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES CUBA the queen of the antilles is today fighting for liberty and independence it is the rici richest iest and most productive product iv e island of its ize aize on the face of the globe it is a little larger in area than the state of new ik york and contains nearl nearly y population it lies less than miles south of 0 the florida coast and is the key to the gulf of mexico its staple production is sugar but coffee tobacco cb rice maize maize tropical fruits and vegetables adeall are all grown in abundance it has rich mineral resources luxuriant forests and a very fertile soil it is engaged in iii a struggle today of republicanism and democracy against monarchy an and a plutocracy in many respects rasped i it t is a similar straggle to thotis our own Beyo lation to x S 9 escape the agn bcd es botic power aa fir th a united states have only been spectators to the comat il it h 1 4 r i little indi T a A vidual sympathy ant tj tit S substantial add aida we wa S haia s people E at who favo reel tle the ii to man kina on V we aj wu aaa lad 4 nt a JF r 1 nation should assistance A v ji v r J ji f r as would enable any Y alibi yew orld So 0 liberty ibe 1 as va w 01 TW the principles p X A 4 of the monroe Lf onroe doctrine forbid the increase of monarchial power over any south american republic why should it not logically follow that it is as much our duty to assist a struggling straggling people to liberty liber tyas as to protect them in itchen it when once gained for any people e who love jove freedom to be chained to spain is as abhorrent as to fasten a dead body to a living man and an d compel him thus to pass through gli life spain is like a vast stagnant sea covered with the green scum of lethargy upon whose surface there has not been a ripple of progression for centuries she co contributes i strib to the worlds advancement boat about a as much as a pinto indian she is crumbling to io daa decay y from f ibm dry rot but she should not be permitted to drag I 1 into ruin rain the fairest spot of the western hemisphere cuba naturally belongs to the united states and at no distant day she will be in the union of states for the present however we should deal with the situation as it exists our oar government should at once recognize reco gnuse those fighting for independence as a bellig belligerent erent power all acts tending towards neutrality should be abro grated do this and the liberty loving people of this country would soon accomplish the rest monarchy has no rights on this side of the atlantic which we are bound to respect if cuba had her independence I 1 she would be completely americanized in ten years texas came to us filled with a foreign element but soon became as much american as any other oiher part of the union california also had a population both ignorant and foreign but they soon adjusted themselves to the now new conditions we can never acquire cuba by purchase for the reason that spain will never sell it ii the right thing to do is to assist as these people to break the bondage which now binds themi ond i they organize a stable republic publia re and au d demonstrate that they the r are v capable cap able of self government invite va ite them ito to a place under the ithe stars stan and stripes and thus stam stamp p out from every f foot 06 t of american soil s the spanish S tyranny in the broad AX of art frt M 2 will al appears pear fa afuli account im 4 little delator lake 1 s 4 4 street 1 S waff jl 43 oc W t J a in x an m nd a Y na hudson try A f sy ltv y sy w 7 1 pastor I is avi sewal oft be ai gion r ij t 55 S u 2 SS 3 fk sf 1 l ag rf 0 yg A |
