The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
$40 sets of teeth, $40. DR.. Wix.
FoRTY-FivE YEARS AGO.
An Account of Cuba as 1t Was at That
Time.

An Account of Cuba as IL Was at That
Time.
From the New York Times.
In the very first number of Putnams
Monthly Magazine, the date of which Is
January, 1858. after the introduction, there
is an article on Cuba. The subject chosen
some 40 years ago as the leading features
in Putnam's shows how important IL was
then considered. The article is unsigned.
but it was written by Richard Burleigh
Kimball, the author of "~Undercurrents OF
Wall Street Life" and Letters From
Cuba" Were the author of this article
alive to-day The died in 1892, he would see
how prophetic he was.
Eighteen hundred and fifty-two had been
a year of turmoil. The Napoleonic coup
d'etat of 1851 had unsettled Europe. There
were the beginnings of those troubles
with Russia which brought o In 1894
the Crimean war. In his Introduction TO
the article Cuba" Kimball wrote: w
cannot, If we would, remain Indifferent to
what is passing in any of the civilized
states. One great effect of freedom Is TO
fill the heart with an earnest desire that
every living being should participate in
it's privileges"
In 1851 the Lopez expedition had made a
landing at Marillo. Lopez was captured
and garroted. During the same year,
Colonel Crittenden was shot. In 1852 first
appeared a decided action on the part OF
the president of the United States. Mr..
Fillmore, refusing to join Great Britain
and France in a treaty which guaranteed
to Spain the possession of Cuba. In lSo2
there was a conspiracy in Cuba, and It's
leaders were garroted, shot. or sent to
prison for life. The article then in Put
MANS Magazine was a timely one, for
Cuba then occupied public attention. This
is an extract from the second page OF
the article:
There is almost within sight of our
own shores a province of one of the mon
arches of the old world whose inhabit-
ants are suffering under greater and more
oppressive burdens and are governed by
a sway more absolute any tyrannical than
has ever been exercised against Sclav.
Magyar, Pole or Indian. 1t is the island
of Cuba
Mr.. KimbalI describes the various cap
tains general. and shows that on the ac-
cession of Miguel Tacon there began IA
series of injuries, cruelties and oppres-
sions against this unfortunate island I'M
paralleled in the history of civilized COM
munities . . . Tacon possessed a jeal-
Gus nature, was short-sighted and mar
row-minded. and had an uncommon stub
bornness of character" And these are
the true Spanish traits of t~o-day-that is.
of the Iberian functionary. The Tacon
policy was about this, that the island or
Cuba cSn only be Spanish or African. De-
scribing exact conditions when the article
was written, Kimball writes:
1--WE have seen that the position OF the
Creoles in Alba is that of an oppressed
and degraded race. fully sensible of their
wrongs: that they now regard the power
which Expresses them with Indignation:
that, Notwithstanding their earnest desire
to be free, they are kept under the ter
rors of servile Instruction and the fear
of a relentless persecution. But do the
Cubans despair altogether of liberty?
Have they no hope from any quarter? or,
If from any, from what quarter? There
is no doubt that they look to the United
States. and to the United States only. as
their ultimate hope and salvation from
the cruelties of Spain"
Then comes this remarkable passage:
What is in the future? Cuba will be-
come a part of the United States. The
how or the when it is useless to predict
Political events have transpired so rap
idly with in the last few years that
That of an hours age doth kiss the
speaker
We are borne onward by a force which
seems Fastening some great consumma-
tion. IL all do not agree as to the result
which these changes are to bring. no one
can shut his eyes to the changes them