The Greenville times., 1896-12-05
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Ahe subject Of musl lnierpss loda
i ihe foFfh-ening message OF ID
President and its effect oB lhe aniiuI
Of this country with regard 70 Cubs
If public sentiment. = expressed b
the maj1Fity Of the newspapers oi q.
land, had been capable Of seiirg Is
stead Of talking and wFiiIHg. there
no limit 10 tie eom9liesfiOn> anI rib
ulaiions into which The eouulrv-R
thls time might have been plugged
IOf these, war with Spain, shd posi-
bls With some osLer European power
Il one of the most certain. No doub
The Uuiied Stairs could free Cuba b,
sending down a squadron Of Wa
ships and dIsembarking q couple o
hundred thousand welI-equipped So
dlers upon It's shores, bnt what then
Fortunately, the United States 10 no
governed by iis newspapers, aud what.
ever the "siiIl. strong man" In the
presidents seal may decide upon will
be well and wisely done. That il
fairly certain. There 10 not Que act OF
President ClevelsBd's which has moi,
In the end, been iis own Justification:
snf the mass OF The people may pos
ssss their souls in patience, knowing
that while Cleveland Ia al the helm The
proper thing will be done for Cuba
and at the proper time.
Gen. Lees report tells nothing about
The state Of affairs that was not al
ready surmi.cd by well-informed aud
sensible people. Great atrocities have
been perpetrated, 1t 10 true. but the
crimes OF the insurgents have beeu no
less abominsble, 10 proportion 10 their
opportunities, than those OF the Span
iards The sufferers IRON both sides
have been the non-combatsnts. the
farmers who have tried to raise crops
to support their families, and the class
OF proprietors who have not taken up
arms.
|. is indicated that tbs President
has presented an ultimatum to Spain, |
'ignifying In courteous and friendly
but unmisiakably firm, language that
he war must end 10 three months, or
he United States will intervene 10
'top hostllities. There is no prospect
'f the rebellion being crushed lmme.
lately. The oaly way ou, appears 10
% by one of three methods, viz:
SPANS acknowledgment Of her In.
'blliiy to re-conquer the island, and
of her troops; purchase
y Cuba outright by The United States
giving England a morigagel or
United States armed Intervention. and
'robably an inglorious aud miserable
var with Spaia, ending In the gu.
orced acquisition of Cuba. In about
generation Of time, under the United
''ates government, Cuba might be-
ONE an earthly paradise, dotted with
be beautiful winter homes of New
FORK millionaires, aud blossomIng
rom end 10 end with beauty and
rosperity; but before that blessed
Is reached the negro
eneral Maceo and all his partI.colored | I,
nherents must emlgratc to Hayti;
40 the island change its political aud !
'cia' complexion in almost every re.
'ec'. The great trouble with Cuba Z
ppears TO be the hodge.podge of iis !.
equation. The Spanish people do /,
ot appear to feel the Anglo.Saxon re. b
c'ancc TO mixture of races, aud the 8
suit 10 mongrel condition which e
ould be intolerable to our minds :
be Island, 1t Is claimed, is merely a a
waste, psoplod by a half. L
viiized and utterly lswless popula. C
'n, largely composed Of half.breeds. :
norant Of our laws, language, and Il
'illzasion. The Unised States may. G
the far-of future, bring some SORT 4
order out of this chaos, but II is a u
and formidable task. y, y,