Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — MASON WANTS A WAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MASON WANTS A WAR.

Introduces a Resolution Demanding ■of Spain Immediate Peace in Cuba. In the Senate the other day, Mason of Illinois presented the following: “Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to notify Spain and the insurgents that the Cuban war, so called, must at once cease, and be discontinued, and the United States of America hereby declares and will maintain peace on the island,” This resolution is preceded by a lon* preamble setting forth the horrors of war as it exists in Cuba, declaring that “all

Christendom is shocked by its barbarities.” It sets forth the refusal by the insurgents of the pretended autonomy; asserts that “daughters of insurgent soldiers are sold into houses of infamy and women and children debauched and threatened beyond the power of lnnguage to describe.” It tells of the sufferings of the comcentrndos, declaring that the flag of truce has been abandoned and the struggle narrowed to extermination or independence; pointing out the necessary expenditure of large sums by the United States to succor its citizens in the island, and quoting the Cuban paragraph from the last Republican national platform.

SENATOR MASON.