Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — PREACHER’S STRONG LANGUAGE [ARTICLE]

PREACHER’S STRONG LANGUAGE

The Cuban Question Must Be Settled by This Administration. Rev. Thomas Dixon of New York made a stirring appeal on behalf of interference by this country in the Cuban revolution, in the Academy of Music, that city, the other morning. “How much longer,” he said, “will the common people of the United States endure the horrible story of the butchery of innocents on the isle of Cuba? How long will we stand tamely by and see our navy policing, spying and hounding the suffering patriots from our shore? Two million of dollars have been spent in this cowardly policing. “The gamblers, peddlers and hucksters had a war scare last week. It was well that they should have. The question must be. settled by this administration or it will hear from the people in no undecided terms at the polls next election. If Thomas B. Reed continues to throttle the will of the people he'll hear from them and it will be a long time before he will have another chance to preside over the House of Congress. “The frightful stories of the butcheries that are daily committed; in Cuba are enough to make a people rise in mighty wrath. Yet we have stood by aud seen all this—not only seen all this, but spent $2,000,000 to assist Spain in doing it. The blood of the Cuban martyrs and the skeleton-corpses of the inoffensive noncombatants are a stain of dishonor on the record of America.”