| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1927 - 526 pages
...11, 1898, depicting what was happening to Cuba and what America should do, President McKinley said: The only hope of relief and repose from a condition...duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop. i In view of these facts and of these considerations I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the... | |
| James Sullivan - New York (State) - 1927 - 550 pages
...exterior cause, is a patent and impressive proof of a state of things in Cuba that is intolerable." .... "In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization,...duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop." The President placed the issue with Congress, and by joint resolution on April 20, the Senate and House... | |
| United States - 1927 - 362 pages
...Nation to the righting of the wrongs of the time. This was his word, only quoting a phrase of his : In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of American interests, the war in Cuba must stop. That was the word that came and it was that word that... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 758 pages
...reforms. . . . The conclusion of the long message and the really important part was as follows : " The only hope of relief and repose from a condition...which give us the right and the duty to speak and act, the war in Cuba must stop. gress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure... | |
| American periodicals - 1899 - 996 pages
...STATES ARMY AND NAVY. From a $hf>îi>eral>k— Copyrighted by Raker's Art Gnt!t*ryt Columbus, Ohio. " In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization,...of endangered American interests which give us the rip ht and the duly to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must slop."— President McKinley 's message... | |
| Marion Daniel Shutter - Minneapolis (Minn.) - 1923 - 728 pages
...bill was passed and on the llth the President sent a special message to Congress, in which he said: "In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization,...endangered American interests, which give us the right and duty to speak and act, the war in Cuba must stop. In view of these facts and these considerations,... | |
| American literature - 1900 - 796 pages
...denunciation of a few months before. When in his message to Congress of April 11, 1898, he uttered the words "In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interest, which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop," he... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Government publications - 1979 - 914 pages
...Cubans were starving, President William McKinley. in asking Congres for armed intervention, declared : "In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization,...duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop." A resolution by the Senare spoke of "abhorrent conditions" that "shocked the moral sense of the people... | |
| Jules R. Benjamin - History - 1990 - 252 pages
...the ' 'very serious injury to commerce, trade, and business of our people. . . . The "Ibid., p. 396. only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured," he concluded, "is the enforced pacification of Cuba."94 In his only reference to a longer term goal,... | |
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