{"1": {"fulltext": "fc.72.1\\n15^", "height": "3474", "width": "2617", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "r^ov OF CONGRESS\\nLIBRARY Ob rmmm\\n013 785 899 A\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "3865", "width": "2236", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "/yr\\nCopy 1\\nW r\\nCuba.\\nO house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning,\\nand deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury-\\ngo out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your\\ndoings. Jeremiah.\\nBehold, the Lord s hand is not shortened, that it can not save; neither his\\near heavy, that it can not hear. For your hands are defiled with\\nblood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue\\nhath muttered perverseness. For my sword shall be bathed in\\nheaven behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my\\ncurse, to judgment.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isa iah.\\nc SPEECH\\nHON. JEREMIAH D. BOTKIN,\\nOF KANSAS,\\nIn the House of Representatives,\\nTuesday, April 12, 1S9S.\\nThe House being in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and\\nhaving under consideration the House amendments to the bill (S. 934) to\\nauthorize the Washington and Glen Echo Railroad Company to obtain a right\\nof way and construct tracks into the District of Columbia t 00 feet-\\nMr. BOTKIN said:\\nMr. Chairman: It occurs to rue that the people of this country,\\nas well as the members of this committee, are interested to-day-\\nmore in another question than this question of street railways.\\nAs I have occupied but little of the time of this committee or of\\nthe House during this session, I shall be glad to avail myself of\\nthe kindness of the gentleman from Wisconsin who has the bill\\nin charge to occupy the attention of the committee for thirty min-\\nutes on the question of Cuba.\\nMr. Chairman, it is impossible at this late day to add anything\\nnew to the discussion of the questions at issue between this Gov-\\nernment and Spain. I only desire to record briefly my own con-\\nvictions, and at the same time voice what I believe to be the sen-\\ntiments of all patriotic Americans.\\nIn considering the present strained relations between these Gov-\\nernments two distinct problems should be kept in mind, viz. the\\noppression of Cuban patriots and the destruction of the battle\\nship Maine. The civilized world holds the Spanish Government\\nresponsible for both. Every consideration of humanity requires\\nthe United States to issue, without an hour s delay, an imperative\\ncommand to the oppressors to quit at once and forever the West-\\nern Hemisphere, and also to demand of Spain a full and speedy\\nreparation for the loss of our ship and its lamented crew.\\nFrom the beginning of the period of Spanish atrocities in Cuba\\nthe American people have been wrought up to a high tension of\\nfeeling and indignation. During this same period the authorities\\nof this Government have been so dilatory as to exhaust the public\\na-:25 1", "height": "3495", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "4, Co 2\\n^patience, to satisfy the most conservative noncornbatant, as well\\n3^ as the most craven devotee of a cold-blooded commercialism to be\\nfound in this country or in Europe, and, in the judgment of thou-\\nx/ sands, to humiliate this great Republic in the eyes of Christendom.\\nThose members of Congress who have criticised the dilatory\\nmethods of our Government have been applauded by all the\\npatriotic people of this country. But they have been contemptu-\\nously styled jingoes by the few who know and care more for\\nthe demands of Wall street and the money kings of Europe than\\nfor the will of the American people. The latest and most violent\\neffusion of this kind appeared on April 1 in the Hartford (Conn.)\\nPost, a paper owned and presumably controlled by John Addison\\nPorter, private secretary to the President, I quote a few sam-\\nples of this most vicious attack that has been made upon the\\nAmerican Congress for a generation, simply to show the venom\\nof at least one Spanish sympathizer in this country:\\nIn the whole history of the Congress of the United States that body has\\nnever before reached such a depth of degradation as during the present\\nweek. Under the guise of a desire to help a people struggling for liberty, it\\nhas kept up a constant agitation for somemonths in favorof intervention by\\nthe United States in behalf of the Cuban insurgents. Within the last week,\\nhowever, it has thrown off its cloak and shown the true character of its con-\\nduet. Its motive in agitating the Cuban question has been, not a love of lib-\\nerty, not sympathy with human suffering, but simply bloodtMrstiness i if\\nthe most savage description. It has been crazy to fight somebody, and Spain\\nhappened unfortunately to offer a convenient target.\\nAfter a discussion of the Maine disaster, in which Congress is\\ncondemned without stint for its attitude upon this question, while\\nthe Spanish Government is held up as a model of fairness and\\ngood faith, this modern apologist tor tne unspeakable crimes in\\nCuba says:\\nIt is hard to believe that savages of this sort continue to display then:\\nin public in this last end of the nineteenth century of Christian civilization!\\nAnd why this senseless tirade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this screed so appropriately pub-\\nlished on All Fools Day? Simply that Congress, knowing the rec-\\nord of Spanish cruelties in every country over which her flag has\\nfloated for centuries and witnessing the crowning act of her infa-\\nmies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 her very intoxication with the blood of hundreds of thou-\\nsands of her victims in the Island of Cuba\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and moved by the\\ndictates of reason, of justice, of humanity, of Christian civiliza-\\ntion, demands that this Government shall terminate these horrors\\nat once, even though it may require the military power to do it.\\nIf this constitutes jingoism, then this is a nation of jingoes. If\\nthis be savagery, we are savages. If to propose assistance to pa-\\ntriots struggling for independence and freedom from the most\\nfiendish system of oppression and slavery of modern times is\\nbloodthirstiness, we are bloodthirsty.\\nBut this defender of Spanish atrocities threatens us with defeat\\nat the polls. We accept the gage of battle. We are ready to\\nmeet him and his few friends, the Spanish bondholders, on the\\nhustings and at the ballot box. The American people propose that\\nCuba shall be free, and will relegate to eternal oblivion any mem-\\nber of this body who stands in the way of this cause.\\nIn defense of the Administration s dilatory policy, this writer\\nsays:\\nPresident McKinley, as is known to those who share his counsels, had al-\\nready laid out his programme, even to the fixing of the final days and dates\\nfor each stage, before Congress made the first step toward interfering with\\nits work.", "height": "3125", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "75\\nIf that is true, and the President knew he should on Monday,\\nApril 4, or at the latest on Wednesday, April 6, as was promised\\nthe country, send his message to Congress declaring for independ-\\nence or intervention, or both, why did he not days and weeks ago\\ndirect General Lee to remove all Americans from Cuba? This\\nwould have prevented the disappointment of, not to say the insult\\nto, the American people by the postponement of the message last\\nweek, under the pretext that its promulgation at that time would\\nendanger the lives of Lee and his American associates.\\nIn closing this most un-American editorial, Congress is thus\\nclassified:\\nBenedict Arnold himself was not a viler traitor than these men, and their\\nmemory and his should go into history side by side, stamped with the eternal\\ninfamy of having made merchandise of their most sacred public trusts.\\nI hurl the charge of treason back into the teeth of the writer,\\nwhoever he is. The Benedict Arnolds of this period are those who,\\nlike the author of this insult, would sacrifice national honor, the\\ncause of freedom, and humanity itself upon the altar of a heart-\\nless commercialism. It is proper to say that the owner of the\\npaper disclaims all responsibility for the offensive article. In a\\nnote published in the Washington Post of April 7 concerning it\\nhe says:\\nSo far as the article which has caused criticism is concerned, I did not\\nwrite it nor see it until two days after its publication, at which time I\\npromptly sent a telegram to the managing editor of the Post, expressing\\ndisavowal and regret at the exaggerated tone of the article, and cautioning\\nthe editor to be more careful in the future.\\nAnd yet his paper of March 30 and of March 31 contained edi-\\ntorials on the same line of denunciation of Congress, and scarcely\\nless bitter than that which he has felt called upon to apologize\\nfor. Further still, I am credibly informed that Mr. Porter, in a\\npersonal interview with well-known gentlemen, has admitted that\\nwhile he did not write the offensive editorial, and that it was not\\ndiplomatically prepared, he did inspire its spirit.\\nIn an editorial bitterly criticising Congress, Mr. Porter s paper,\\nin its issue of March 30, said:\\nOur dispatches to-day show the lines on which the negotiations are speed-\\ning. It is asserted from Washington that Spain has consented to the follow-\\ning settlement of the troubles in Cuba:\\n1 Spain to recognize the independence of Cuba,\\n2. Cuba to pay Spain $200,000,000\\n3. An armistice to be declared, during which the Spanish forces are to be\\nwithdrawn from Havana. a\\n4 The reconcentrados to be fed, supplied with clothing, farming tools, and\\nseeds by the United States and returned to their farms.\\nThis, says the writer, is a consummation to be proud of.\\nOn the contrary, it is a policy that will condemn its advocates\\nto a just political oblivion in any and every State in this glorious\\nUnion. But it must be confessed that the people fear this to be\\nthe policy determined upon by the present Administration and\\nenshrouded in secrecy to this hour.\\nIn this connection the country should know that Congress has\\nbeen flooded for several days with telegrams from men represent-\\ning so-called business interests asking us to support the Adminis-\\ntration in its Cuban policy, whatever that is: that these telegrams\\nwere inspired by messages sent out from Washington; and that\\none of the most notable of these inspiring messages was one sent\\nby John Addison Porter.\\nThis is simply a part of the game being played by and tor the\\nbond syndicates of the world\u00e2\u0080\u0094 men who are determined that the\\n3225", "height": "3078", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "unspeakable murder and misery in Cuba shall not be interfered\\nwith by this Government until they have perfected their arrange-\\nments for the perpetual bond slavery of that people. To show\\nthe death grip which the money power has upon the governments\\nof the world, and how they control and use these governments to\\nfurther their own mercenary interests, I quote from a letter in\\nthe St. Louis Globe-Democrat of March 21, 1898, from its regular\\nWashington correspondent:\\nThere will be no war, the American representative of the Rothschilds\\nsaid in New York on Friday. He spoke with confidence which knowledge of\\nthe influences at work inspired. For two weeks the moneyed interests of the\\nworld have been quietly crowding Spain. They have negatived her appeals\\nfor loans. They have closed the ear of European courts to her advances tor\\nalliances.\\nIt remains to be seen whether or not this Government, like those\\nof Europe, is to continue under the domination of the Rothschilds\\nand their agents.\\nMr. Chairman, the American people well know that for about\\nthree years the most brutal warfare that disgraces the annals of\\ntime has been waged by Spain against her Cuban subjects. If\\nour forefathers were justifiable in resisting oppressive taxation\\nwithout representation, the Cuban patriots are engaged m the\\nmost holy struggle for freedom the world has ever witnessed.\\nFor three long years they have contended against great odds.\\nTheir homes have been destroyed; their old men have been wan-\\ntonly murdered; mere boys have been shot down for utterances\\nof patriotism; prisoners of war have been butchered; fair young\\nwomen have been ravished by the inhuman Spanish soldiery;\\nmothers and children and others equally helpless and innocent\\nhave been herded together by thousands, without food, clothing,\\nor shelter, to die under the slow torture of starvation. And all\\nthis at our very door and under our eye.\\nWe have heard much of the unspeakable Turk and his atroci-\\nties in fair Armenia. But I demand that our authorities shall\\nconsider the unspeakable Spaniard and his greater atrocities in\\nCuba, the gem of the southern sea. For three long years these\\nrevolting barbarities have been practiced by Spain. And yet this\\ngreat Republic, the home of freedom and justice, has made no\\neffort to bring them to a conclusion.\\nSaul of Tarsus stood by and held the garments of the murderers\\nwho stoned St. Stephen to death, thereby consenting to the awful\\ncrime. This Government is the modern Saul of Tarsus. From\\nthe highest official of this nation, and therefore of the world, has\\ncome no word of encouragement and assurance to those patriots\\nin their unequal struggle for liberty. On the contrary, while ad-\\nmitting in message and otherwise the inhumanities of the Spanish\\npeople and the unparalleled miseries of the Cubans, this same high\\nofficial has on different occasions spoken soft and honeyed words\\nto and of the Government of Spain, expressive of high regard and\\nconfidential relations.\\nMr. Chairman, the sympathy of the American people for the\\nCuban patriots and their horror and indignation toward the Span-\\nish Government for its unutterable cruelties are not of recent\\norigin. I desire to point out three facts of history that reflected\\npublic sentiment upon this question two years ago:\\n1. The extended and fervent discussion of Spanish atrocities and\\nof Cuban independence by members of both branches of the Fifty-\\nfourth Congress. There were no party lines. Sherman, of Ohio,\\nand Morgan, of Alabama, and Allen, of Nebraska, were among", "height": "3125", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "the leaders in the Senate favoring prompt and decisive action on the\\npart of this Government. Hitt, of Illinois, and the leading mem-\\nbers of the House of all political faiths were no less emphatic for\\nthe Cuban cause. Proctor, Galuinger, Thurston, and other\\ngentlemen whose statements so recently aroused the indignation\\nof this country have added no material facts concerning Spanish\\ncruelties to those that were given to the country two years ago by\\nmembers of both Houses of Congress.\\nThese later statements of the case were given, it is true, from\\npersonal observation, which adds interest and weight. Is it\\nclaimed that conditions are improved since Blanco superceded\\nButcher Weyler, and that this is a reasonable excuse for recent\\ndelays on the part of this Government? I reply that the observa-\\ntions of Proctor, Gallinger. and Thurston were made under\\nBlanco s reign, and not under Weyler s.\\nI repeat that the speeches in the two Houses in February and\\nMarch, 1896, that have not since been surpassed in ability and in-\\ntensity, reflected the almost universal sentiment of Congress and\\nthe country at that time.\\n2. The resolutions adopted by Congress and the votes by which\\nthey were adopted reflected the sentiment of the people through\\ntheir representatives. On February 5, 1896, Senator Morgan, of\\nAlabama, from the Committee on Foreign Eelations, reported the\\nfollowing concurrent resolution:\\nResolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That, in\\nthe opinion of Congress, a condition of public war exists between the Govern-\\nment of Spain and the government proclaimed and for some time maintained\\nby force of arms by the people of Cuba; and that the United States of America\\nshould maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, accord-\\ning to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the\\nUnited States.\\nOn February 28, 1896, Senator Cameron offered as an addition\\nthe following amendment:\\nResolved further. That the friendly offices of the United States should be\\noffered by the President to the Spanish Government for the recognition of\\nthe independence of Cuba.\\nThus amended the resolution passed the Senate on the last-\\nnamed date by a vote of 61 yeas, 6 nays, 19 not voting.\\nOn March 2, 1896, Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman of the House\\nCommittee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the following resolution\\nas a substitute for the Senate resolution:\\nResolved, That in the opinion of Congress a state of public war exists in\\nCuba, the parties to which are entitled to belligerent rights, and the United\\nStates should observe a strict neutrality between the belligerents.\\nResolved, That Congress deplores the destruction of life and property\\ncaused by the war now waging in that island, and believing that the only\\npermanent solution of the contest equally in the interest of Spain, the peo-\\nple of Cuba, and other nations would be in the establishment of a govern-\\nment by the choice of the people of Cuba, it is the sense of Congress that the\\nGovernment of the United States should use its good offices and friendly in-\\nfluence to that end.\\nResolved, That the United States has not intervened in struggles between\\nany European governments and their colonies on this continent; but from\\nthe very close relations between the people of the United States and those\\nof Cuba in consequence of its proximity and the extent of the commerce be-\\ntween the two peoples, the present war is entailing such losses upon the peo-\\nple of the United States that Congress is of opinion that the Government of\\nthe United States should be prepared to protect the legitimate interests of\\nour citizens, by intervention if necessary.\\nThis was adopted by a vote of 262 yeas, 17 nays, 76 not voting.\\nThe matter went into confertnee, and on April 6, 1886, the House\\nagreed to the Senate resolution as adopted by that body on Feb-\\nruary 28. The final vote in the House stands yeas 247, nays 27,\\n3225", "height": "3078", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nnot voting 80. All these votes were free from party bias, and\\nrepresented the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and of the\\ncountry on the Cuban question.\\n3. Lastly, I desire to introduce the platform utterances of the\\nvarious political parties in their national conventions of 1S96, as\\nreflecting the sentiment of the country at that time. The Repub-\\nlican platform says:\\nFrom the hour of achieving their independence the people of the United\\nStates have regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peo-\\nples to free themselves from European domination. We watch with deep\\nand abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty\\nand oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their deter-\\nmined contest for liberty. The Government of Spain having lost control of\\nCuba and being unable to protect the property or lives of resident American\\ncitizens or to comply with the treaty obligations, we believe tbat the Gov-\\nernment of the United States should actively use its influence and good\\noffices to restore peace and give independence to the island.\\nMr. BRUCKER. That platform was made to get in on, was it\\nnot?\\nMr. BOTKIN. Yes; and no party dared go before the country\\nat that time with a milder statement of the Cuban question.\\nThe Democratic platform says:\\nThe Monroe doctrine as originally declared, and as interpreted by our\\nleading Presidents, is a permanent part of the foreign policy of the United\\nStates, and must at all times be maintained. We extend our sympathy to\\nthe people of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and independence.\\nThe Populist platform says:\\nWe tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their\\nheroic struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the\\ntime has come when the United States, the great Republic of the world,\\nshould recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be, a free and inde-\\npendent state.\\nThus the three leading parties of the country, representing\\nalmost the entire population, are practically a unit in their latest\\nofficial deliverances upon this most burning question just now\\nbefore the American people. And yet two years have dragged\\nheavily by since these patriotic utterances were read by a delighted\\npublic. They have been two years of blood and carnage: two\\nyears of nameless atrocities practiced upon the innocent and help-\\nless portion of the Cuban population; two years of waiting and\\nvacillation on the part of our Government; two years of our quiet\\nconsent to these butcheries. And during these awful years two\\nAmerican Presidents have been brought under the grave suspicion\\nof the American people as being under the powerful influence of\\nbond syndicates, and as being controlled more by commercial con-\\nsiderations than by the interests of humanity and the cause of\\nfreedom.\\nThe country had a right to believe that the new Administration\\nwould, without unnecessary delay, formulate and prosecute a vig-\\norous American policy upon the Spanish-Cuban question. Ac-\\ncordingly, Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, introduced into the Senate,\\non the 1st day of April, 1897, the resolution that had passed both\\nHouses by overwhelming majorities\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Senate on February 28,\\n1896, and the House on April 6, 1896. The final vote was had\\nupon this resolution on May 20, 1897, as follows: Yeas 41, nays\\n14, not voting 33. Party lines were again ignored, it being a ques-\\ntion of patriotism and not of partyism.\\nDuring the extraordinary session repeated efforts were made by\\nthe minority side of the House to secure a consideration of this\\nresolution, which is confessedly a very mild expression of public\\nsentiment. But some strange spell had fallen upon the majority.\\n3235", "height": "3125", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Strong men who but one short year before had portrayed upon\\nthis floor in glowing colors the awful crimes committed in Cuba\\nby the Spanish armies, and had vehemently advocated Cuban in-\\ndependence, now staggered at belligerency, urged moderation, and\\npleaded for more time to ascertain the true state of affairs in Cuba.\\nFor this purpose the President sent a trusted personal friend as\\nhis special agent to make an official investigation, promising, in a\\nsemiofficial Way at least, that should the report of this gentleman\\ncorroborate the published statements of the horrible conditions in\\nCuba, the Administration would, without unnecessary delay, an-\\nnounce and enforce a vigorous policy, such as would meet the ap-\\nproval of Congress and the country.\\nThe people remember that upon Mr. Calhoun s return he re-\\nported conditions even worse than had previously been described.\\nEvery man on this side of the Chamber and scores on that side\\nwere eager to vote for armed intervention and for Cuban inde-\\npendence. But some mysterious influence, potent until this hour,\\nhad fallen upon the Speaker of this House and upon his majority\\nthat forced them to turn a deaf ear to the entreaties of the\\nminority, to the demands of the country, and to the piteous wails\\nof starving victims of Spanish cruelty.\\nIn the meantime the awful tragedy continued. Under Spanish\\nauthority our Chief Executive was maligned, our flag insulted,\\nand American citizens in Cuba were despoiled of liberty and of\\nlife. And finally, as if to crown all their other infamies, the\\nSpanish Government, under the guise of friendship, lured to its\\nplace of destruction the noble battle ship Maine, which, with 266\\nof as brave seamen as ever sailed under the Stars and Stripes,\\nwent to the bottom of the sea through Spanish treachery and\\ndiabolism.\\nThe American people know that our ship and men were de-\\nstroyed in Spanish waters; that the explosion was external; that\\nthe submarine mines and torpedoes belonged to Spain and were\\nplaced there under Spanish authority; that none but agents of the\\nSpanish Government could have known the exactlocation of those\\nengines of death, or the combinations by which they could be ex-\\nploded. With these facts before them, I believe the American\\npeople will repudiate that portion of the President s message re-\\nlating to the report of the court of inquiry on the Maine disaster\\nin which he says:\\nI do not permit myself to doubt that the sense of justice of the Spanish na-\\ntion will dictate a course of action suggested by honor and the friendly rela-\\ntions of the two governments.\\nI also believe they will repudiate the policy of the message de-\\nlivered yesterday.\\nMr. Chairman, the opinion held by the American peop.e a year\\nago that this Government should at once accord belligerent rights\\nto Cuba has grown into an unyielding conviction that had it clone\\nso then, thousands of Cubans now dead would be alive: that\\nthe country would now be on the road to a happy and prosperous\\ncondition; the battle ship Maine, the pride of the nation, with her\\ngallant crew, would now be resting peacefully upon the bosom of\\nthe deep; the war clouds now pregnant with wrathful storm would\\nlong since have been dispersed and driven from the sky. and the\\nhonor of our flag would have been preserved in the eyes of our\\nown citizens and of all the world. [Applause.]\\nThe American people will brook no further delay in dealing\\nwith this question. They demand speedy and adequate reparation\\n3225", "height": "3078", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "nSSEL \u00c2\u00ab*W655\\n8\\nfor the loss of our battle ship and its crew. They demand abso-\\nlute freedom and independence for the Cuban people. They de-\\nmand that a people who have poured out rivers of blood for inde-\\npendence and freedom shall neither be required nor permitted to\\npay in addition thereto a single dollar in cash, or in bond either,\\nas an indemnity or as an annual tribute to the Spanish Govern-\\nment or to any mercenary bond syndicate on earth. That public\\nservant who consents to any other kind of settlement of this ques-\\ntion than the unconditional surrender of Cuba to those suffering\\npatriots must settle with the American people at the polls. [Ap-\\nplause.]\\nIn conclusion, permit me to say that on general principles I am\\nopposed to war; but I am ready and eager to support any measure\\nthat may be proposed by the Administration looking to the imme-\\ndiate relief of the Cuban patriots and to a just indemnity for the\\nloss of the Maine and her lamented crew. War is a deplorable\\nmethod of settling national disputes, but we deal with a barbar-\\nous nation. I long for the incoming of that era, foretold by the\\nold Hebrew prophet three thousand years ago,, when the world s\\nswords shall be beaten into plowshares and its spears into pruning\\nhooks; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither\\nshall they learn war any more.\\nBut the opening day of that glorious period has not yet dawned.\\nThe Prince of Peace has not yet established His kingdom in all\\nhuman hearts. Nor will He, in my judgment, until this cruel\\nnation shall have been blotted off the map. I do not believe a\\ngovernment can commit the crimes that Spain has committed in\\nCuba and escape just and awful retribution. If it is God s order\\nthat retributive justice shall be meted out to her through the in-\\nstrumentality of this Government, I voice the universal sentiment\\nof Kansas and of the country when I say, All hail the task! [Ap-\\nplause.]\\n3225", "height": "3125", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3078", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "H in in 1U ill WW WWil 11\\n13 785 899A\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "3896", "width": "2190", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonj00botk_0012.jp2"}}