The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
THE FUTURE OF CUBA.

tA| na1ism in partnership with the bond-peddling
 A,A Cuban Junta, concerning the insurgent gov ernment of that island The war has exposed these lies completely. It exposed the bond and blanket mortgage conspiracy which melted those hes It has exposed the personal, financial interests ot yell low journalism in the bond-peddling conspiracy. Cuba had no insurgent government, nor army, nor treasury. The internal weakness and corruption or Spain had permitted bands of predatory outlaws to ravage the islands, while the Junta in New York, with Spanish instinct set up criminal specula- ton in a so-caled revolution" which was as much entitled to beigerent rights or diplomatic recog- niton its kindred industry of train robb1ng III the United States. The President knew all this and asked authority to do what Spain had failed to do to secure peace and order and stability of government
 in the island But the House wanted war and the Senate wanted war and recognition of the insurgent government, which had no existence to be recog- nized.
 We succeeded i'll avoiding the folly of recognition and declared to expel Spain from the island. This we have done by the shortest and sharpest war
 in our history We have made more history and un- made more geography with less expenditure of blood than appears in the martial record o other nation We have put army and our navy fore most among the worlds fighters by land and sea. We have given heroes and heroic incidents to the history of action at arms, and the chapter will make mems nerves thrill and jingle through the ages Now at the end we are faced with the problem which occupied the soldier statesman n the White House at the beginning There is no Cuban government and no Cuban army. The food we sent to the phan- tom of yellow journalism has been eaten and the nuniton has been used in murdering prisoners ot war and mutilatng the bodies of the dead
 The President must act on the declaration Of Congress that the Cuban people are and ought to be Of government The people being Independent must choose and fashion the form of government that will best maintain their independence and afford the most stable protection to the rights of person and prop erty It is clearly disclosed that both will need pro- lection from the criminal rapacity o those pets ot yellow journalism, the so-called patriots, whose idea of independence is exemption from labor and whose highest conception of liberty is freedom to steal the property by the industry of the thrifty and orderly people,
 The President having directed the war to con elusion; having so managed the friendship of Great Britain as to protect us from Continental alliance; having convinced Spain that she would better treat directly with us for terms, and having so humbled her false pride that she conceded all of his conditions must now address himself to the greater task of bringing order out of the Cuban chaos.
 It may be expected that the yellow journals will try to poke their long fingers into this question We pect torrid pronuncia1nentos from the Junta and negro rhetoric from the San Domingan Gomez, and
 renewal all along the line of the issue of recognition of those unworthies. They still hug their blanket mortgage and want lay it like blister of canthar des to draw the substance of the island from those to whom it belongs, for the benefit of the crooked, criminal and yellow journalism and the gliding of their own pockets. It Is to be hoped that the try will aid the President in following the line Cf his knowledge in the premises by founding govern ment on something else than bandit raiders and bar harnns robbers.