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...administration of Cuba has always been selfish and tyrannical. Forum, xx. 54 sq. Ballou 305 sq.- (a) Denial of representation.- (b) Oppressive direct and indirect taxation.- (c) Spanish control of revenues.- (d) Greed and corruption of officials.- (e) Espionage.- (f) Censorship of press.- (g) Barbarities in suppressing rebellions.- (2) Spain has broken faith with Cuba.- (a) Non-fulfillment of promises made to insurgents in 1878: Forum...
...however, as a religious body that the Roman Church appeared to the people of New England in 1750, but as a great ecclesiastical system which had acquired a marvelous power over men and kingdoms,- the body that had applauded Saint Bartholomew's Day and backed up Spain, England's inveterate enemy...
...Catholic Church's view of liberty is singularly inconsistent. In England and America it stands forward as the champion of liberty. In Spain, Austria, and Belgium, where the Catholic Church has paramount authority, liberty does not exist. The Catholic Church claims, too, that it has always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with...
...Dutch opened the debate for the affirmative. He dwelt chiefly on the commercial benefits which would accrue from annexation. Mr. Paine spoke next for the negative: He declared annexaundesirable and impracticable, as the majority of people in both countries are opposed to it and Spain would never allow it. Mr. White then took up the affirmative again. He said that the United States would take Cuba if it could do so peaceably, as the question states, because it is the key to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Appleton then resumed the debate for the negative. He spoke...
...Parrett, South Orange, N. J.; Walter Haven Clark, Hartford; E. D. Alexander, New Brighton, N. Y.; C. F. Mackey, Franklin, Pa.; Howland Twombly, Newton, Mass; P. C. Peck, Hudson, N. Y.; A. L. Curtiss, New York; J. F. Eagle, Brooklyn; J. H. Knapp, Norwalk; F. C. Lee, Port of Spain, Trinidad; W. B. Ford, Detroit; Thomas F. Archbald, Scranton, Pa.; George X. McLanahan, Washington, D. C.; Alexander S. Cochran, New York, and Alfred H. Bello, Dallas, Texas...