Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — MILLS IS FOR WAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MILLS IS FOR WAR.

Texas Senator Save the United Stetea* Duty Is to Free Cabs. Senator Mills spoke Tuesday In defense of the Cuban resolution introduced byi him. He said the resolutions heretofore before the Senate were steps in the right! direction, but very short steps. The people of Cuba had far greater claims on the United States than mere recognition of belligerency. If Ireland strnck for liberty to-day the hearts of the American people would beat in sympathy, and so 1£ Poland or Hungary asserted the right of liberty. But the United States hadmueh closer relations to Cuba than to Ireland or Poland or Hungary, for it was part of the Western Hemisphere over which tha

Monroe doctrine extended the influenca of this country. Mr. Mills declared that the Monroe doctrine was a law of protection and that as such God was the author) of it. It was the same right of self-pro-tection which an individual exercises in • abating a nuisance or destroying a powder house near his premises. Jefferson had used plain words in' threatening to join England and sweep the French fleets from the seas if France persisted in holding the mouth of the Mississippi river. The same spirit bad ! brought forth President Cleveland’s Venezuela message. Cuba stood as the key] to the gulf, and our unvarying policy, said' Mr. Mills, has been to resist any transfer of Cuba to another monarchy. The United States has stood by as a jailer and prevented Cuba from going to Franca or England. And, if we insisted on keeping Cuba in the possession of Spain, was it not the moral obligation of the United* States to see that Spain gave Cuba fair] government, to see that the hell of all hellish despotism was lifted from the Cuban people? “The day will come,” said Mr. Mills,, “when the American conscience will be aroused to its guilt in permitting the oppression of Cuba, and when that con-t seiousness comes the American peopla will fill this chamber with Senators who will stop that oppression.” The Senator read of atrocities attributed to Gen. Weyler and added; “This is the work of that atrocious scoundrel.! He could not be in Cuba to-day if the United States would draw her sword., How the cheeks of our American women, must be suffused, how our children must blush to know that this government 1 stands idly by while Spain, with the keys l of her dungeons dangling at her side, permits such an atrocious villain to raise hie hand against defenseless women.”

SENATOR MILLS.