El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-10
DISPOSITION OF CUBA.
A Plea For England's Policy In
Egypt.

Egypt.
SIMON VOLTS VIEWS ON EXPANSION
Former Consul General Believes Gu
bans Are Unable to Govern Them
selves and Says We Should Exer-
else Control and he Responsible
For Cuba, ms England Is For Egypt.
fppines.
Mr.. Simon Wolf, former United
States consul general to Egypt, who
came to New York expressly to address
the congregation B'nai Jeshurun at the
Thanksgiving services in their syna-
gogue in New York, spoke mainly on
the relations Of the United States to
the Philippine islands, the permanent
acquisition Of which he opposed He
said in part:
"At no time einoe the United States
has been ushered into existence has
Thanksgiving day been charged with
such momentous importance as the
present. It is true for years prior to the
OWL war questions of policy both at
home and abroad divided the citizens
Of the United States into hostile camps
until it eliminated in that fierce and
terrible struggle for national existence
ending, thank heaven, in the extino-
ton of physical slavery and reuniting
the sections into one homogeneous
whole, and ever since the days of Ap-
ho nd
south have been endeavoring to bring
about a closer union on all the lines of
concord and peace. and not until war
was declared with Spain was this CON-
summation. 90 ardently desired by the
colonial fathers and the wise statesmen
since that day, brought into realization.
for on that day north, south, east and
west formed a grand union Of hands
and heartA
"But there Is another phase Of our
national existence which has been forced
70 the front by events for which we are
responsible before the world not only
rs promoters but sponsors. We are de-
parting from the traditional policy that
made this country great and glorious.
We are entering into new duties. We
are compelled to sail on seas unknown
to our history, and it behooves us as
citizens to review the situation. There
can be no question that the conditions
that existed in Cuba for the last CEN
fury were intolerable, inhuman, cruel
and bloodthirsty and that this condition
should have been stopped long, long
ago Congress stated distinctly, when
driven to end this inhuman condition
in Cuba. that we were engaged in a war
Of humanity and not for conquest Since
that declaration Hawaii, by virtue of its
own request and consent, has been add
ed to our territory. Porto Rico has been
given up by the Spaniards and accepted
by our country. Cuba, which every
lover Of liberty had supposed was to be
governed by the Cubans. is in a condi-
ton Of doubt and uncertainty.
1.-TWO years ago, in a public speech
In Washington. said it would be bet
ter for us to frankly declare that we
would be responsible for Cuba and hold
it than to simulate and hold out hopes
that might never be fulfilled, for it is
my honest belief and Judgment that the
Cubans will not be able to govern
themselves. Latin races seem unfit for
republican rule. We certainly do not
wish to incorporate it at this juncture
into the galaxy of states. Then what is
to be done: you will ask. Exercise con-
troll, and be responsible for Cuba as
England is for Egypt. Aid and strength
en- civilization on all the lines necessary
to peace and prosperity, aid in develop
ing with our usual American energy
the railways, telegraphs and commerce.
Garry out the splendid plan conceived
by your own great Warning, whose life
was sacrificed to perform sacred duty,
and cleanse the island of it's one great
enemy and make it, in a sanitary sense,
as healthy and blooming as nature has
go luxuriantly provided, and in the
course of time, under the inspiration of
American institutions and through en-
ergetic Americans, there will be grad
ual assimilation and Cuba will either
be a republic on the plan of our own,
or will then become one Of the great
states of the Union, but not until then.
"And so also with the Philippine is
lands, which have been thrust into our
national growth in manner unexpected
and undesired. There can be no two
opinions that we owe to the natives of
the Philippines certain obligations. I
They look to us with confidence that we
will aid them in delivering them from
Spanish rule, and to that extent 1 am
heartily in favor of doing whatever is
consistent and just on the same lines as
indicated by me in regard to Cuba, but
not further. I do not think our people
are willing or anxious to have incor-
porated into the body polite 5000, 600
of uneducated people, one-half of whom
are savages and who have not even been
slaves, when at our own door in a por-
tion of our own country we have, unfor-
tunately, white savages to reform and