Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-17
HAVANA IN A TURMOIL.
Agitation There is Tremendous in Its Under
current in Politics.
MILITARY PRESERVE OUTWARD PEACE
No Immediate Danger of Riots--Efforts to
Secure Blnnco's Recali-Opposition
to Autonomy is Intense.


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Spahlsh power IN CUBA now rests on
It's ability to maintain order in Hava-
ma. Until the government shows itself
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can DC considered. Military operations
against the insurgents are forgotten.
PROGRESS with autonomy is n Pigment.
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mon seeiiis eHueu ior '"e
present. The quiet of an armed truce
prevails 1t is possible to review the
eventa of tha. last fav davs and tn
ahaiyze theH sishlhchhce.
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MAR troons gives pron,ise that the calm
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the prospects. n single week has given
Havana Il more vivid idea of what war
10 than all the events OF three years
of insurrection. The riuting has not
been one of destruction or bloodshed.
Its purpose was political. That may
account for the lack of bloody COLI
sions betwene the troops and the
rioters A dozen cavalry onslaughts,
frequent infantry attacks and countless
bayonet charges on the mob without
anybody being killed, is little short
Of marvellous, but ii went on in the
| nights 1t could not go on indefinitely
without bloodshed.
The tact and forbearance with which
| the officers carried out their orders has
brought the government temporarily
| through the crisis When the mob was
| crying death to Blanco and to auton-
| omy, sef-restraint was necessary. The
| cries for Weyler were the most pro-
| nounced of all. They showed that he
| has many partisans in the city who are
| Iat I..nI 90. lat. ha.
The authorities for month have been
| taking precautions against a hostile
| demonstration of the intransgeants.
| They did not expect that 1t would be
encouraged and precipitated by officers
| acting under preconccrted plans. IN
I'll these officers can be properly disci-
| plined respect for the government can
not be restored to General Blanco does
not seem powerful enough to cashier
them.
| Everybody fears the army. Some of
the people who suffered by the riot
| endeavor to excuse 1t. The officers were
| ostensibly avenging reflections made by
! the autonomist newspapers, on the
army But in their de.tructio nof La
Discussion they struck II blow at auton-
omy as well as at an autonomist news
paper. The rioters followed up the
blow by their repeated attempts to
sack the office of Ell Diario, n more
moderate journal, which supports the
Gen. Blanco has tried to assure the
Sagasta ministry and the people of the
United States that the riots have no
political Significance 1t would be well
for the government If this were so. The
ultra-luyal Spaniards are taking off
their hats to the army. The people who
were rash enough to criticize its Of
fcers are Fastening to make apologies.
The army is hereafter a dominant po-
litical force in Cuba.
} Its officers may start no more riots
but the spirit which pervades 1t will
: influence other classes. and that spirit
is one of hostility to autonomy The
firmness with which the iron hand of
military repression is stretched over the
: city may keep down further outbreaks,
but though the tension will not lessen
for n long time to come, the property
! owners. who are mostly against the po-
litical policy of the government, have
: every reason to Join with II in main
: tanning order They effect to be salts
: fed with what has already been done.
l The volunteers are certain to continue
) in a state of ferment, bur they are not
! likely to break out in open rebellion
E securing Gen. Blanco's recall. The
demonstrations they make are likely to
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