{"1": {"fulltext": ".V/81-", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "F 1786\\n.W84\\nCopy 1\\nCTJB\\nREMARKS\\nOF\\nHON. EDWARD 0. W0LC0TT,\\nOF COLORADO,\\nSENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,\\nFRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1898.\\nWASHING-TOX.\\n1898.", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "V\\nTi-\\nls\\n68699", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "EEMAEKS\\nOF\\nHON. EDWARD 0. WOLCOTT.\\nThe Senate having under consideration the joint resolution (S. R. 149) for\\nthe recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that\\nthe Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the\\nIsland of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and\\nCuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the\\nland and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into\\neffect-\\nMr. WOLCOTT said:\\nMr. President: It had not been my intention to participate in\\nthe slightest degree in this debate until some of the reflections\\nupon the Chief Executive of this nation were uttered yesterday;\\nand they have led me, in view -of the fact that I intend now to\\nvote for the joint resolution of the Committee on Foreign Rela-\\ntions, to desire to publicly disassociate myself utterly and wholly\\nfrom any of those discreditable insinuations.\\nIn my opinion, Mr. President, the great mass of the people of\\nthis nation do not desire war, if they can avoid it; but they see\\nno way how, under the providence of God, it may be averted.\\nThe people of these United States have stood and stand to-day\\nloyally by the President. His position, frictional and difficult at\\nbest, has been administered by him as became an incumbent of\\nthat high office. Brave himself, he abhors war; but he abhors\\nunrighteousness more. He nas dealt in most courageous fashion\\nwith that popular clamor which would have been so easy for him\\nto follow a popular clamor natural and patriotic and loyal, but\\nnecessarily uninformed and unreasoning. He has been compelled\\nto contend with the disgraceful conduct and utterances of a de-\\ngraded journalism which has, I regret to say, found influence\\namong those in high station a journalism which would cheer-\\nfully and gladly plunge this country into war to-morrow if it\\ncould increase its circulation a few copies.\\n3245 8", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "He has had to contend with the impassioned utterances which\\nhave taken place in hoth Houses of Congress; utterances, Mr.\\nPresident, which we have no right to criticise. The Senate is an\\nopen forum where every man is responsible only to his conscience\\nfor what he says, and if his utterances make the task of diplomacy\\nmore difficult, we must accept it as one of the feattires of our in-\\nstitutions, and we must seek to be so strong in other directions\\nthat we can overcome the evils which may grow from them.\\nAll these influences in these long and arduous and trying and\\ndifficult days the President of the United States has met with tbat\\nsplendid conservatism which comes to all good men when respon-\\nsibility and power are imposed upon them. He has met them not\\nalone with the courage of a man who has known the smoke of battle,\\nbut he has met them with the fortitude and courage of the Chris-\\ntian who desires to save, if possible, the lives of every American\\ncommitted to his charge; and, Mr. President, that confidence and\\nthat affection and that respect have been reflected for weeks in\\nthe forbearance and tolerance and courtesy of this body through-\\nout all these trying weeks.\\nIf there have been one or two discordant notes; if, as we stand\\non the threshold of war, which we have practically already crossed,\\nthere has been heard among the Senators in this Chamber a reflec-\\ntion upon the character and motives of him who is the beloved\\nPresident of our whole people and whom the Constitution creates\\nthe Commander in Chief of our armies and our navies, it will only\\nserve to emphasize and deepen the practical unanimity with which\\nall good men look up to the President and the desire we all cherish\\nin this awful crisis to strengthen his hand.\\nAfter weeks of diplomacy, unfortunately unsuccessful, the Presi-\\ndent turned over to Congress the two subjects which he had been\\nconsidering the subject of the barbarities in Cuba and of the dis-\\naster to our battle ship. It is a great pity that he could not longer\\nhave kept them; but the avenues of diplomacy were closed to him.\\nIt is a pity, because under our institutions and under our procedure\\nCongress deals with these questions as men in mass meeting. The\\nfinesse of diplomacy is unknown to us. We can speak only from\\nour hearts and for the people we represent: and our debates, which\\nmay prejudice us in the minds of the people of Europe, are the\\n3245", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "essential and the necessary channel through which, as representa-\\ntives of the people, we make known onr views when public duty\\nis devolved upon us.\\nIf the two subjects could have been presented separately, if they\\nhad occurred separately, we might perhaps have saved the neces-\\nsity of war. If the awful barbarities in Cuba, extending over\\nthree years, which have aroused the sensibilities and the pity of\\nall mankind, could have stood alone, it is possible, though not\\nprobable, that by peaceful methods we could have met a solution\\nof this difficulty.\\nFor myself, Mr. President, however much of expenditure or\\ndebt or outlay it might have entailed, I would far rather have\\nvoted right and left and mortgaged the property, and thus neces-\\nsarily mortgaged the labor, of every citizen of the United States\\nto a reasonable extent if that would have secured peace in Cuba.\\nIt might have been successfully accomplished, although it seems\\nas if Spain would not, and could not. yield that which is the essen-\\ntial condition of our ceasing our insistence.\\nBut. Mr. President, when added to that there came the awful\\nexplosion in the harbor of Havana, a friendly port, in time of\\npeace, the die was cast. After that, what could be said? If that\\nhad stood alone, it is possible it might have been adjusted without\\nwar, but not by any method which the Spaniard has yet attempted.\\nWhen such an outrage was committed there was but one duty\\nleft, and that was the duty of exculpation, if they could excul-\\npate themselves. If not, the only course of a self-respecting peo-\\nple must be to invoke the god of battle.\\nMr. President, from the day of that awful disaster until now,\\nexcept the most perfunctory regrets, the most formal messages\\nto our Government and our people, there have been no steps\\ntaken either to exculpate Spain or to fix the guilt of the offenders.\\nMr. President, taking the two happenings together, what can re-\\nsult but war?\\nFor the disaster to our battle ship we want no money. There is\\nnothing that can repair our wrong. Yes; one thing. If Spain\\nwould free Cuba to-day, we would offer up our 260 sailors as an\\noffering upon the altar of Cuban freedom.\\nBut, Mr. President, because of that disaster unatoned for and\\n3245", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nunexplained, the determination is burned into the hearts of the\\nAmerican people that war must come or Cuba be made free and\\nindependent. No other answer will be accepted.\\nMr. President, this national honor which we evoke is intangi-\\nble, it is inchoate, it is unwritten and unexpressed, but it has\\nwithin it the force and the violence of the whirlwind and the\\nstorm. It is that chastity of honor which feels a stain like a\\nwound. The existence of it makes nations survive and fit to\\nlive. The loss of it, or the trading upon it, or the abandonment\\nof it, makes nations lit to die and perish from the face of the\\nearth.\\nIt is for these reasons, Mr. President, that good men, hating\\nwar and loving peace, can see no way under heaven whereby war\\nmay now be avoided. At the outset it is fitting for us in advance\\nto pledge ourselves that the statements we make to Europe and to\\nmankind are true that this is a war for liberty, for humanity, and\\nfor the succor of the suffering and the oppressed.\\nPersonally, Mr. President, I regret that I can not find in the\\nCuban situation an independent government such as I can vote to\\nrecognize. I wish I could. For when the time of final adjust-\\nment shall come there is danger in these days of syndicates and\\ncommercialism and reorganizations that there will be found the\\nmen who play and trade on human liberties as they do on loans\\nand chattels, who will seek either to aggrandize this property for\\nthe national uses at a price, or seek to syndicate it in some form\\nwhereby commissions may be realized. To-day we stand ap-\\nproved in the minds of every humane man in Europe because we\\nstand for humanity and liberty. And there we must stand till\\nthe end and after the end. if we would win their respect and pre-\\nserve our own.\\nMr. President, when the day of final settlement comes and the\\nissue has been finally closed, we must still stand as a nation,\\nstrong, self centered, and humane, which heard the appeal of the\\nsuffering across the shallow waters of the Gulf and could not turn\\na deaf ear to the cry of the oppressed and the downtrodden. There\\nis nothing nobler at the close of the nineteenth century than a\\ngreat country, with everything to sacrifice and nothing to gain,\\nstanding up for human liberty and the relief of suffering. No\\n3245", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "concert of Europe chokes our utterance or strangles our voice. As\\na free people we can listen to their cries and heed them. And,\\nMr. President, serious as is this crisis, and great as are the dangers\\nthat grow out of the steps which we have taken, I am unwilling\\nto believe that the claim will ever hereafter be made in the Senate\\nor elsewhere that, having expended our blood and treasure for the\\nsake of a suffering people, we should seize their fertile lands and\\nannex them to our own as a recompense.\\nIt has been said upon the floor of the Senate, and it has been\\nheard much elsewhere of late, that unless a nation fights it decays\\nand deteriorates; that\\nHonor sinks where commerce long prevails;\\nthat it is essential to the race that it raise its young on wars, or\\nelse it goes to decay. If that is true and I do not believe it it is\\na pitiful statement to follow two thousand years of the teachings\\nof Christ; and if it is true, it applies to a contest with equals.\\nSpain has a population of 16,000,000 of people and we have\\nnearly 75,000,000. For three years Spain has drained her resources\\nin men and money to the same extent as if we in three years had\\nsent a million men, who had never come back, and a billion dol-\\nlars in money to a colony 3,000 miles from the United States.\\nThis is the country upon which we are asked to whet our courage.\\nIt is as if we kicked a cripple whose crutch might hurt us until\\nwe took it away and invoked upon ourselves the plaudits of the\\nworld as a people of bravery and of daring.\\nMr. President, we have heard on the floor of this House again\\nand again denunciation of the Spaniards as cowards. From Alva\\nand stout Cortez until to-day the Spaniard has been brutal in\\nconduct, but courageous and brave. When we enter upon this\\nwar we do not want to befool ourselves either with the idea that\\nwe are fighting cowards or a foe our equal in numbers and re-\\nsources.\\nNo, Mr. President, this war is one which can bring us no ma-\\nterial gain. It will bring us the loss of millions of dollars in our\\ncommerce. It will sweep our ships from the seas. It will create\\nunrest in business. It will destroy industries. It will be followed\\nby that lessening in morality which always accompanies the con-\\nclusion of a war. We will leave thousands of our young men\\n3245", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ldkhkt ui- CONGRESS\\n015 819 626 8\\n8\\ndead of fever or by the bullet in the tropics in the Island of Cuba,\\nand we shall be fortunate if we are not compelled to face serious\\ncomplications with other European countries.\\nAll these things we must count in advance, and we have counted\\nthem. And when the day of the result shall come and Cuba is\\nfree, as we must make her free, we will have fought a country\\nwhich can never indemnify us by land, for we want no land be-\\nyond our border; a country which can never indemnify us in\\nmoney, for she has got no money. We must find our only satis-\\nfaction, and it must be the supreme satisfaction of a free people,\\nin this, that we have poured out our blood and our treasures to\\nrelieve the cry of suffering humanity.\\nThe war which is already upon us, whatever the phraseology of\\nour resolutions, must be fought because it is the manifest destiny\\nof this Republic to stand forever upon the Western Hemisphere a\\nsentinel of liberty. It must come, because if we fail to listen to\\nthe voice of the suffering or the cry of the downtrodden upon this\\ncontinent, we shall be untrue to those principles of liberty, hu-\\nmanity, and Christianity upon which this country is founded as\\nupon a rock. [Applause in the galleries.]\\n8245", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF C0NG |^SL, 1\\n015 819 626 8 w]", "height": "3452", "width": "1937", "jp2-path": "cubaremarksinsen00wolc_0012.jp2"}}