The evening times., 1898-11-07
MONDAY. NOVEMBER :. 1895.
Cuba and the President.

The Havana special dispatches 10 Th-
Times. to two or three Of the NV York
newspapers, and the press dispatches.
this morning. agree that the situauen
in Cuba is intolerable and in every
particular as The Times alone predict
ed Immediately after General Blanco's
proclamation when he received the
news Of the signing Of the protocol. IL
is not for the purpose Of calling atten
rion 10 its foresight that The Times re-
calls its warnings and appeals 20 three
months ago. which have been repeated
al intervals every few days since. The
only aim is TO induce the President TO
take some steps TO prevent the further
mischief the presence, authority and
raiignitv Of the Spanish general must
dc. If the Americans find the task cf
governing cuba beset with unexpected
difficulties that might have been avoid
I'd. il is entirely because the President
was either blind to the conditions
which The Times described or was in
different. or had hidden motive in al
lowing them to become SO grave. The
Presidents sustained attitude is beyond
explanation. We can conceive of no
ADEQUATE reason why he should be SO
deaf 10 the appeals Of reason. the petit
lions of the Cubans and AT last of the
Evacuation Commissioners. when the
consequences are so obviously serious
both to this country and Cuba.
When General Blanco refused 10 per-
init the landing OF supplies for the suf-
fering people and issued a bombastic
proclamation criticising his own gov
ernment and expressing his contempt of
Americans. il was plain that he meant
To carry out Sasasta's threat Of re-
venge by making future American ad-
ministration difficult. The Times dis
tinctIy predicted that he would continue
the Weyler policy as far as possible in
the case Of certain Cubans. while send
ing his agents among the Cuban Off
GERS, soldiers and citizens in the inte-
rior 10 create a dstrust and fear OF the
Americans: that he would prevent the
American Commissioners from extend
ing relief To The Cubans and at the
same time discredit them for their
seeming Indifference; that he would
cling TO mis- place of power. gather in
The revenues and promote idleness and
distress, all Of which he would per
suade the Cubans was a consequence
OF American rapacity, selfshness and
inefiiciency: that he would dispose of
all possible government property, and,
worst Of all. foster the opinion that the
Americans were intent on owning the
island. " hich they would use entirely
for their own benefit, virtually enslav-
ing the natives.
This mornings dispatches from all
the different correspondents at Havana
distinctly state that these things he has
done and is doing. His course has be-
come so positive that they are forced
10 recite the facts. even with the knowl-
edge that they must be an arraignment
Of the authorities in Washington. The
Times correspondent notes the censor
ship Blanco has placed over the local
press. suppressing every word that is
favorable TO the Americans and allow
ing the ultra-Spanish journals to attack
them to warn the Cubans of the most
selfish and dangerous purposes of the
nation that freed them. and urging
them TO revolt and drive the mercenary
Yankees out of the island. He notes
the activity Of Blanco's agents, who
visit the camps of the Cuban army and
promote conspiracy to oppose Ameri-
can occupation. He has discovered that
the Spanish officers distribute arms
and ammunition TO the Cubans with
which to fight the Americans on whose
rations alone they live. The corre-
spondents Of other journals recite simi-
lar facts, while even the slow and dun
derheaded Associated Press can no lon
ger resist knowledge of the situation.
1t is forced to call attention to that
about which The Times has talked to
the point Of weariness-without any ap-
parent effect on an Administrationthat
must have some secret purpose to serve
4 it is not absolutely Indifferent to the