Show niP EyiNG AND ROTTING william R moore 19 a resident ref ident cf memphis with a deep conviction of the duty of tace united slates in dealing with the cuban question lu an article to abo press he bays 1 I would it I 1 bad the power as I 1 think tha united states settle forever thie unspeakably monstrous cuban inhumanity and barbarian bucic ery cuba you know is an island containing as much territory as our state of tennee eee it is tho richest island in the world it even cow furnishes an annual trade of every dollar of i by sympathy and interest at least the rightful inheritance of the united states within six hours of conr own shores bov can it be expected that cuban commerce shall be compelled forever to pay an tribute to a people tour thone and miles and from fourteen to twenty daya away from them and to be forced at the paint of the bayonet to fatten dishonest officers sent to prey upon them without the power to protest for fifty tifty years this condition acas been ripening end rotting uncil no longer endurable the u of that island have sworn to be free and independent our history hinr traditions aad our every interest bind u to them with with bookson steel and I 1 represent millions of americans when I 1 express the wish that 0 ir government dinits own good way shall speedily bring the itsuo in cuba to a locae I 1 am tired of this political incertitude cuba should be free let spain understand us once and for all cuba Is already lost to her let this be recognized at once the sooner abo better the way to resume is to resume then we shall go on prospering and to |