People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — SHALL CUBA BEFREE? [ARTICLE]

SHALL CUBA BEFREE?

Senator Call of Florida presents below some strong jeasons why the United States should at once act in the Cuban matter, “Spain, simply because of longestablished and long recognized authority, has no right to oppress people anxious for freedom worthy of freedom, and seeking to govern themselves. They are our next door nieghbors and are appealing to us in their distress, and I think we, we of all people, ought to help them. At least, we ought to leave our people free in the matter. The truth is. the United States is Spain’s main-stay. The widest advertisement is made of the rigid attitude of this government respecting the neutrality laws, which has the double purpose of serving Spain and crippling the Cubans by holding back

Cuba’s eager friends, while Spain perfects arrangements designed to make her grip on the island tighter than ever. Sever the relations between the United States and Spain, by recognition of the Cubans as belligerents, and Cuban independence would be an accomplished fact in a very short time. The spirit is abroad in the land, the money is at hand, fifty thousand men, including some of the brightest and most ambitious in the nation, would leave these shores at once to join the Cuban army: ships would be purchased and equipped for service, and Spain would have to yield.” We trust that every one will help the struggling Cubans along by affording all citizens an opportunity to sign the petition puplished in this paper, and by returning the same to this office by mail as soon as tilled, not later than Nov. 1. Fifty cents pays for a copy of “The Great Debate” between Horr and Harvey. For sale at this office.