People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — A Plea For Cuba. [ARTICLE]

A Plea For Cuba.

Americans must aid. Ob, deeply they feel For a people so brave through woe and through weal Straggling against assassins in power. Weyler, avaunt 1 How cometh the hoar To prove whether brave men shall fall to the sod, Betrayed and left helpess by tyranny's rod. Help Cuba. Give aid. Tonr people are free. France was your ally. Far, far o’fr the sea, When needing a friend, she came at yoov sail. With money, with gnns, a leader and all. Now give of yonr store to Cuba in need. She’s falling. She's dying, la vain shall she bleed? With knife at her throat, with stab in the dark, AasMSlns her foes, her people—bark, hark! The cry of her people, a cry fall of dread. t Macao is fallen I Maeeolsdeadl America weeps for a leader so brave. America weeps. Will she help? Will she save? —Caroline Haas in Atlanta Constitution.