The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-21

Our DiSGruntled Allies.
The. President has acted wisely in letting
tie Ct5an insurgents understand at once,
and for all. that the United States have no
Intention of earliicng thousands of The
lives Of their youns men and spending hun
\ dreds of millions Of dollars to drive the
| Spaniards out OF Cuba in order that men
who have no higher idea of their response
! 1nlties as citizens OF cuba than vengeance
| may have possession of the island. If
what the correspondence with our army NJ
| Santiago say OF Gen. Garcia 5 army is true
our government could make no greater
mistake than to let the insurgents have
control Of Cuba after the Spaniards have
been compelled to withdraw their flag from
| it, About an they appear 10 be good for is
TO consume rations. in the Santiago cam
paign they refused TO help our soldiers
build roads aud bridges and when the
fighting began they kept well out OF dan
l..Ecr And these are the patriots who ex-
| pect to rule Cuba! The civilized world
would regard US as lacking in common
sense if we should put the island in pos
session of such men. 1t would do more
than that Ii would say that we had not
been true to our promises-that we bad
disappointed those who had put confidence
in Us.
These insurgents at Santiago who did
nothing towards capturing that place, who
! consumed rations furnished by our gov
eminent while our soldiers did the fighting,
are now sullen aud angry because Santa
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and to govern as seemed best to them. They
appear to think that the United States
have no other purpose in view than to cap
ture the island for them. Wen. it is not to
be wondered at that they are disappointed
| They are going to have other disappont-
menis before the war is ended
iCuba Is wei nigh ruined now, but if the
people that Gomez and Garcia are leading
were given control of the island it would
| become a vast waste in the course of a few
| years Faction wars would be introduced
and life and property would be so unsafe
that nobody would go 10 the island 10 in
vest money and those who own property
there would get rid OF it as quickly as they
could.
No, the insurgents will not be given pos
session Of the island and our armies will
not leave it untn a stable, liberal and sat
! isfactory republican government has
been established there. It may
| take several years to establish
that kind of a government, but it
is certain that we shall not regard our
work>as completed until we have given
! cuba a government Of that kind.
Before completing our task we may have
as our enemies many OF those who are now
| fighting against Spain. That viii make no
difference to us. We shall not turn aside
| from what we regard as our duty because
what we propose to do does not have the
| approval of the insurgents who seem to
think that we shall do ali the fighting and
| that they should have all the fruits of vic
| tory.
When we shall have driven the Spaniards
out of Cuba we shall consult the wishes Of
| the people of the isiand-those who have
| The good of their country at heart and
those who have something at stake. They
will be pushed to the 'front.' and the res
possibility of making good laws and ad-
ministering them viii be put on them. And
our soldiers viii stay in Cuba until it be-
comes evident that they are equal to theiI
| responsibilities.
our purpose in driving the Spaniards out
of Cuba is not that the insurgents may cut
the throats of the Spaniards and despoi
them of their property-to manage the al
fairs of the island TO suit themselves-but
to get rid of "a neighbor who had made q
situation for us that was intolerable. Now
that we have undertaken to provide our
selves with a better neighbor we shall mo-
abandon the task until we are sure that We
have accomplished our object.