The Holly chieftain., 1898-08-19
waahington oorrespondenoe.

|. The military commissions to arrange
for the time and method of spanieh
evacuation Of Cuba and Bprto Rico will
Ht once be appointed. but it il likely 70
be months before the last Spanish SOL
der leaves Cuba. In Porto Rico there
are fewer Of them and they will prob
ably evacuate that island in few weeks.
For reasons entirely selfish, the health
Of our own troops. We will not hurry
them out Of Cuba,
Although Spain has accepted our
terms Of peace and there 10 not likely to
be any more fighting, unless there
should be dead lock in the peace
commission over the disposition Of the
PHILIPPINES. the expenditures Of this gov
ernment are likely 70 b apitsas heavy
U NOT heavier. for some. time 70 come 4
they were while the war was going on.
This may sound little queer. but It Il
easily explained. The expenses Of the
army will not be leseened until we be-
gin to muster the troops out Of service.
and, that 10 . mstter not even vet
thought Of. as we shall have to, garrison
Porto Rico and Cuba, the latter quite
heavily, for nobody knows how long.
and the expenses of the navy will be in
creased, instead of lessened, as orders
have already been issued TO overhaul
all of our heavy fighting ships ~ quick
ly as the work can be done. In sddi-
tion to these expenses. the President
has decided that it is our duty to feed
everybody in Cuba that needs food, in
clxding the Spanish soldiers, until such
time as they can feed themselves, and
government rations are already on the
way. A strict account will be kept OF
all food furnished Spanish soldiers in
Cuba. and Spain will be made to reim-
burse us. but the rations issued to others
in Cuba. will simply be charged up to
war expenses. and from all accounts. 1t
will not be small sum that will have
to be expended for that purpose. All
these things combined will make our
peace expenses heavier than our war
expenses, for time.
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Itis admitted ON all sides that this
government will haye several difficult
problems to solve in Cuba, not the least
of which will be the satisfactory dispos-
al Of the insurgents. An official thor
oughly familiar with Cuba. and with
the insurgents, says: ut will be much
easier to issue proclamation directing
all Cubans to resume their ordinary oc-
cupations. than it will be to get the mot
ley aggregation known as the insurgent
army, 10 give up their arms and take TO
peaceful occupations" Soldering in
their free and easy way, and taking
whatever they wanted wherever they
found it, has been the ordinary occupa-
ion Of many Of them for years, and it
would be As easy to round up an equal
number Of American hoboes and make
them adopt regular occupation. a. it
would 10 make orderly workmen out Of
the insurgents. There are many of the
insurgents who will. in my opinion be-
come brieands, rather than 10 work for
a living, lust - number ofthem did at
the close Of the last Cuban insurysctiop.
II they do, they will make NO end of
trouble for our army of occupation, a
the mountains of Cuba are di1lcuA Of
access, except to the natives, and the
natives who do not join the brigands
cannot be depended upon to render the
slightest assistancs 70 any movement
against them. II u = great pity that
the Psendsnt's word prevents the U. 8.
from annexing Csba at once; there isn't
the sliGhtest dosbt about it, coming to
that In the snd. MesnwhiIe there
will b lots q troubb in Cuba,
|aa We w to live up to our promise that
Tho army shah have . stabls govern
nent. Its my opinion that NO stable
government will svsr exist in Cub, q.
cept that Of the y. ,. and fssl certain
~ ains Of every ~ vuopssty hcldsss