Arizona republican., 1899-03-18
SITUATION IN CUBA.
An American Paper Published in Ha- vana Presents Some h.
 teresting Facts.

The leading Cuban journals seem
 full of complaint at the treatment ot the American government. They have
 not quite desisted from their fault
 finding with the Spaniards, but if they continue in criticising the American rule they will soon prove to their own elastic in1aginatiOns that American r1Ie
 is quite as obnoxious as the Spanish rule was said to be; if they succeed ln working up their highly sensitive na- lures to this pitch outsiders will nat urally infer that Spanish rule was net very bad after all.
 The Cubans who were exiles for many years in America did not find American rule very hard to bear IL is inconceivable how they can finG it so galling in s1.ch a short time in Cuba while the Americans are still feeding thousands of these hungry people, placing thousands in places of trust, spending immense sums of money ill the islands, and now appropriatirg millions to enable the unfortunate in surgents to retire to their homes and earn an honest living.
 Instead of praise and thanks for their benefactors and protectors the D. ess is full of fault-finding because the American army is net withdrawn and the laws allowed to take their course
 We are accustomed to hearing the Cubans complain of the Spanish laws" now they seem to be dissatis- lied because the laws are not enforced Verify there are Cubans whose minds are past finding out There are sensi : bic and reasonable people in Cuba. but there are many who seem to have the same ideas prevailing in other Span ish-American countries. They seem to search everything to find Q cause for revolt.
 From the present state of feeling one must conclude that to give up the be the height Of folly, and would lead to a train of events that would seen necessitate it's raconquest and severe treatment of the agitators and mal- contents.
 IL will be impossible to secure the in- vostment of capital, so indispensable to the county till the future status of CubP. has become fixed for ten years at least. Many property owners have fear that the people of the United States will force the government to tCrn it over to the Cubans, and those who desire to bl~J dread the same out cnme. There are people who believe that some open and important faiae step will be taken by those impatient Of American rule and cause annexation before long. Others contend that d fair and honest plebiscite would asn for at least a protectorate for ten years toPing that at the end of that time tue majority of the voters Of the island would vote for annexation.
 But whatever is decided upon, of oCCrse it is fer America to dictate. ar:i tEere is no appeal from her decision. Fault-finding with the power which has the destiny of the island complete y at it's disposal is not gaining any thing in the course that ought to ,;t sacred to every Cuban patriot.
 The people of the United States were 'ery much in sympathy with the insur- gents of Cuba, but many are losing hat feeling and are growing more ana rore of the opinion that the Cubans would not be satisfied even under tne 'Ule of our country; that they were not for the right, but for he privilege of making an experiment Il government and for the purpose Of having the island to the exclusion of III Others.-Times of Cuba.