Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — In Sympathy With Cuba. [ARTICLE]

In Sympathy With Cuba.

New York Mail and Express. The present Cuban revolt cannot but have the sympathy of the American people. While we cannot violate the Monroe doctrine in offering -material aid to the Cubans in their struggle for independence, we can-' not be expected to openly discourage a movement which is in such complete harmony with our republican ideas and which is so largely attributable to the force of the American example. Gen. Grant, wheq. President, appreciated this thought when in 1870 he offered to Spain the good offices of the United States for a settlement of the then existing Cuban imbroglio on the basis of a peaceful annexation of Cuba to the United States. Terms for the cession of the island were prepared by Mr. Fish, then Secretary of State, but they were declined by Spain.