The evening times., 1898-11-07

proclaimed object of the war with
Spain. 1t says:
The interregnum het@een spain's virtual loss
of sovereignty in Cuba a.d tlie assumption OF full
military conirol hs tie United StateS Sc ms in
definitely prolonged with M immediate hope of
r,,lief to a country which daily grows poorer and
moro dei,opulatod On all sides the qne-tion IS
a.krd: slow much nearer Is the hnal solution OF
the p CHEN than ii was on the day the protocol
Wss >igrsdg"
Tie feeling among lie better class of inelligt Mt
aud influential Cubans may be pretty accurately
summed up in The following ols rvations N d, by
representative Cuban merchant of Havana TO
the correspondent of the Associated Press:
':It seems TO me-and ! think my views are
shared by many-that the Unit,d States govern
ment is dillydallying too long with Spain over
this evacuation question: etc.
He observes that virtually nothing
has been accomplished; that the spirit
OF jealousy fills the individual members
of the Commission-whchi is the ineVi-
table result of having Admiral
Sampson as one of them; that
these rivalries engross the atten-
tion of the Commissioners To the
neglect of the questions affecting the
welfare of Cuba and the dignity and
good faith OF the United States He
declares that the country at large,
Whether Cuban. foreign or Spaniard, is
disensted;" that the people are losing
faith in the Americans because of the
ignorance and indifference of our Com
sioners. and concluded that unless the
Washington Government forces its leth-
argic representatives into greater ac
tiv;ty, Cuba will be an immense grave
yard and its fields barren before the
United States takes possession" An
other matter about which The Times
has spoken often and positively, for
which il has been criticised, is that
entire villages are dying of starva-
tion," while our Commissioners sit sip
ping cool drinks absolutely impervious
! TO the demands of humanity
In every detail the repeated predic-
tions of The Times are verified. Owing
venture into the country to SOW crops
an increasing number OF intelligent
/ better-class people are falling into
want, women and childr,n are starving
crime is increasing, all because tn
/ President tolerates the illegal rule OF
/ Blanco ana the inefficient Commission
! ers are ''as useless as three school
boys" as one OF them admitted. Ever
/ they were driven by the increasing
! chaos To call On the President for war
! ships. but not the least attention has
been paid To the demand. Bad as the
! situation is, il is being made worse by
Blanco's work among the Cubans. Nc
one can blame them if, in their igno-
rance Of the sentiments of the great
! body Of the American people, they form
/ their opinion Cf our interest in theh
/ welfare from the attitude of the Presi-
dent and the Commission and from the
/ Obvious fact that they are very much
worse off today than when they begun
/ their insurrection-toda which is NOR:
/ than three months after the capitula-
tion OF Spain.
We have said that if the Presiden
! sleeps well in his soft b5d and if he en-.
joys himself at a bountifully spread
! table, il is because he does not realize
his own responsibility for the appalling
state Of things in Cuba. Yet We do no
see how he has managed To blind him.
sJlf 10 the facts and to his own neglect
II is inevitable that we should suspect
some hidden motive in allowing BlancC
10 wreck Cuba and incite its inhabi.
/ tants 20 an armed resistance to oul
! temporary rule