New Ulm review., 1899-06-14

a natural consequence must be harmful
to free labor, and the same organs should
therefore kick vigorously against the
monopoly one firm has on the shoe fac
tory in the state prison. even against the
binding twine factory, as both factories
are manipulated by convict labor. How
would those wise organs have the con-
victs employcd3 Employed they must
be, there is no doubt about that.
One solution of this somewhat knotty
problem would be perhaps, to enlist
the convicts to fight in the Philippines.
The Filipinos are said to be semi-savag-
es, into whom christianity and civiliZa-
tion must be fired out of gatling and
rapid fire guns, and for whose subjuga
tion thousands of men are slaughtered
without mercy. The convicts would no
doubt cheerfully enlist, serve their coun-
try in this way and thus end their lives
if it should be so destined by fate, as an
atonment for past crimes. Should our
humanitarians refrain from employing
convicts Ill this honorable manner, they
should devise other means of employing
them instead of criticising q we'll meant
suggestion.
.
Whatever may be the real ultimate
purpose of Gen. Gomez IN connection
with Cuban affairs, his position as out
lined III his latest declaration to the Gu
ban people does credit to his sagaclty as
we'll as to his representative character as
Cuban patriot.
The final Judgment Of the American
people on the record of Gomez on the
establishment of civil order in Cuba
cannot be otherwise than favorable. r. He
has borne the part of true patriot. He
believes, as all friends of Cuban liberty
desire to believe, that the race will prove
worthy of the great services which the
United States rendered to it. lie be-
lleves moreover, as the mass of the A.
merican people believe, that the occupa-
ton of the island by Americans will not
last longer than is necessary to lay Sc
curely the foundations of an adequate
form of government, under which the
county will have an opportunity to re-
cuperate its shattered forces, and which
will secure peace and freedom to the
Cuban people.
g 1t must be admitted that, at least on
the surface, the men to whom this peo-
pie should look successfully for active
and disinterested cooperation in our ef-
forts to restore order have in the main
proved themselves utterly unfit to he
charged with responsibility for the fu-
ture of Cuba. The officers of the Cuban
army with very few exceptions have
shown themselves to be no more than a
set OF cheap marplots. But it is prob
ably entirely unfair to judge the whole
people by the standard which they have
established. The mass of the Cuban peo-
pie have yet to be heard from. Judg-
ing by the statements of Gen. Wood 'he
masses, at least in the province of San
tiago, are worthy of having entrusted to
them the most responsible public posi-
tions in the organization of the country.
If Gen, Gomez's advice is adhered to
the period of American occupation Will
be necessarily brief. If the influence of
his former subordinates in the army is
to prevail 1t must be said that the fu-
ture Of Cuba is a very uncertain affair.
st. Paul Globe.
Another ''hayseed" political plank
has shown up with unexpected advo-
Gates. The inside history of Mckinley s
proposed weak little financial bill has
come to light. 1t isn't the gold stand
ard or the "endless chain" which wor-
ried Mckinley. It was the demand OF
certain big business and banking inter-
ests for more paper currency. 1t came
from every section of the country. 1t
declared that if there were $1O0,OOO,-
900 more green backs, the same amount
in silver certificates an"3 the same amount
in national bank notes, the business de-
mands of the country would even then
not be satisfied. This was stroke of
Tightening from a clear sky. The banks
are not taking out paper currency. It
would be death to talk of more green
backs and dire political disaster to even
hint at the necessity of further silver
coinage. So with the directors of the
mint predicting that the rOrld's GOLD