The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

LII InSC way may be AVOIDED those un-
fortunate deadlocks which sometimes
take place in legislative bodies. 1t
might prove a salutary method of keep
ing our representatives within the linn
its prescribed by their platforms at the
time of their election. In this way also
the people themselves may be taught
to take q great interest in national
affairs, and to keep in closer touch
with their representatives at the seat
of government.
The government of Cuba, for the first
few years, in many minor details will of
necessity be in the nature of q political
experiment. Errors will no doubt be
made, but none which Will endanger the
interests of the body polite, or be not
capable of immediate correction.
I'VE do not claim to be infallible, but
we feel justified in placing almost I'M
limited confidence in the patriotism, in
tegrity and sober judgment of the great
m2+or:ty of our people.
THAT we may be permitted to create
and maintain with our own resources
such a government is our only prayer.
What we want are railroads, tele-
graph lines, public schools sawmills,
machine shops, factories, better houses,
and those sanitary conditions and COM
forts which go hand in hand with mod
ern civilization. Our island is ca9able
of yielding a wealth second to none in
the world. To the United States, which
has rendered this possible for US, we
owe a debt of everlasting gratitude.
Her people are as welcome as our own.
Her constitution. her institutions, po-
litical and economical, have been and
will be our models and our guides.
ANNEXATION IN THE FUTURE.
ct is quite probable that in a few
years social and commercial interests
will induce Cuba to sue for admission
to the Union as a state. But UNDER
standing and realizing as 1 do the pee
culiar tem9erament and condition of
our people, l cannot but think that an
neXanon would be most ineXDedient
and unwise at present. L am we'll aware
that a powerful alliance between Span
ish political and American financial in
tereStS has been formed, and that it is
bringing all possible pressure to bear
upon, not only the peace commission at
Fdris and the administration at Wash
irgton, but upon the malcontents of
Cuba, to compel the immediate annexa-
ton OF this island as a territory of the
United States. But a thorough knowl-
edge of the true state of affairs, as well
as of the wishes of my people, impel
me to state that if such step is forced
Upon us now it may long be regretted.
1t IS FAR better to let the grounds in
the coffee cup settle before Offering it
to the guest.
Independence absolute has been the
dream of our lives. Permit us to enjoy
this before compelling US to enter into
even a more profitable or satisfactory
state. We have accepted the assistance
of the United States in driving out the
Spaniards as a noble and unselfish act
of brotherly love and humanity. To
force annexation on US now would sow
in the minds of many the seeds of sus-
picion and distrust. Spain has for years
declared that America had no real r. M
pathy for the Cuban; that she cared
only FOR, his territory. Do not let her
say: 7 told you So
ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
at is my prayer that the friendly re-
lations between Cuba and the United
States may never be tainted with a
breath of suspicion. That they will
some time coalesce and become one. vs.
litically, socially and commercially is
inevitable. But let care be taken that
that union be not married by the i'll
feeling and disappointment which
would be inevitable if the mercenary
Vaccinations of the former enemies of
our independence are allowed to pre-
vail. 1 hope to live to see the day
when the English language will De not
only taught in our public schools, but
will be as we'll the language of com
merce and of state.
THE public school system of the
United States. by men who are espec-
tally competent to judge of educational
systems, has been found on the whole
admirable and satisfactory. Neverthe-
less, there are certain notifications
which would render it better ADAPTED
to system of public school education
for the Cubans, and such notifications
will be readily grated upon it through
careful observation of the intellectual
training Of other countries, as Ger
many. We are we'll aware that vital
need of the Cuban is education. The
only education heretofore attainable by
the Cuban was that offered by the
church. a cramped and imperfect sys-
tenn, which, when brought into compe-
tition with progressive ideals, has been
found in every instance wholly made
quate.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
ITO President Mckinley and the ad-
ministration at Washington we have
appealed not only by letter, but through
the personal offices of a special envoy
for counsel and advice. So far those
appeals have been in vain. 1t dis true
that ours is only a provisional gov
eminent; that we were not elected by
and do not represent all of the people
of Cuba. We do not represent the
Spaniards or their sympathizers, who
sustain the same relation to us as did
the Tories to the colonial congress
during the American revolution. But it
is equally true that ours is the only
authority, civil and military, which
represents the people who have rebelled
against the rule of Spain; the only gov
eminent whose legislative acts have
been respected, whose judicial DEGREES
have been accepted and whose execu-
tive orders have been obyed during the
past three years throughout two thirds
of the island.
1t is this section, the vast interior of
the island, with its more than 1000, 900
Inhabitants, that in dire distress now
appeals to US for advice and succor.
Santiago de Cuba and a few of the
coast cities have been reached and
aided both by the United States gov
eminent and by the agents Of the Red
Cross, but to the great and suffering in
terror nothing has come.
THE instant the administration of
the United States sees fit to recognize
us millions of dollars are ready to pour
into our war-depleted treasury, with
which we can relieve all suffering, pay
off our army, carry on our government
and become financially independent of
the rest of the world. Our entire in
debtedness today, aside from the
amount due our soldiers, is less than
81, 100000, so that our start in political
life viii be without burdens or obliga-
tons, except to the United States.
EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT.
"The running expenses of a republi-
can form of government in Cuba will
be very light. Under the protection of