The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31
soMD SUGGESTIVE ANALOGY.

Tho administration has long delayed tn
substitution Of civil for military govern
ment In Cuba. Fortunately the first stol
In tho termination of policy fraught will
evil consequence, has been taken In tn
appointment OF General Wood to be civil
governor Of Cuba. General Woods res
toration OF Santiago province to the whole
some conditions of peace has not only ir
It's result demonstrated tho Cuban's capac-
ity for eelf-government. but has led the
people OF Cuba to regard tho present po-
sition OF General Wood az an eSruest
from the government OF the United StAtei
that It proposed to carr out It's ante boz
lum pledge to Give them an Independent,
and sovereign government of their own.
Panoplied In tho strength and success OF
our own institutions and removed by more
than century from that period IL ma
tional existence when a transatlantic en-
envy sought to lay us under eternal tribute
to the mother country, We are not as sem
sitivs to the rights and views and sus-
picions OF the Cubans 80 we might be II
our somewhat simiar experiences were
less remote.
In his interview. appearing IN The Post
n few days ago. Mr. Frank r. Hall. whose
business affairs have brought him in long
and close contact with Cuba, and revealed
to his careful Judgment the aims and ca
pacitiea OF tho Cuban. presents the situa-
tion with graphic force when hs declares:
Tho Cuhans arc extremely grateful and
appreciate what tho American people have
done for them but they have in tho past
suffered at tho hands OF Spain, and have
struggled 70 long for freedom that II nat
urnlly has become chronic with them to
carry ahoad of everything elso tho idea OF
Cuba libre. or absolute free government,
They have suffered, bled and died to bring
about this cherished hope OF freedom aud
freedom they should have We started out
TO wage humane war to deliver n poor,
downtrodden people from a condition ten
times worse than bondage. and now We
should give them that long looked for-lib
erty without delay. ono can not understand
what occurred In Cuba In the past unless he
speahs tho language and can talk OF IL 20
those who nassed through 1t. AS our people
IN tho South remember the days or recon
suuction. so do tho CGbans remember the
me hallowed memories OF the past with
ono nope that now they are nearer the
achievement OF that desire than ever before
IhnSey propose TO have tt, and while they are
20 keep faith with them. they will not be
'Arried along through years OF seryitudo
by me United states any easier than thoy
would have allowed IL to DO continued by
spain. ~
All that Is here said OF the Cuban may
be similarly said OF the Filipino. Like
the former. the latter has struggled TO re-
sist bondage and to attain the inestimable
blessings of free government from the
anne despotic master. The one IL en-
couraged to believe that his hope is on
the point of realization: but how about
the other? With the former the United |
States has remembered Its pledge to the |
'ictims OF Spanish robbery and to the
world In time to avoid the shame OF false
hood and tyranny; but how about the lat
TER The cases are soundly analogous
out VIII the lust of imperialism, happily
averted in the one instance. be avoided in
the other That is the perplexing ques-
ZION, and on Its answer depends the honor
ana Justice of u republic.