The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-12-19
CUBAN CONDITIONS.
THE holiday recess OF Congress is approaching
and as yet no measures have been proposed in

THE holiday recess of Congress is approaching
and as yet no measures have been proposed in
either House looking to a solution OF the Cuban
problem. We still hold the island under military
government and the talk goes on about the dangers
OF independence. The latest discovery from military
sources is that the race hatred between the blacks
and their congeners, one side and the pure
Spanish element the other, orebodes the creation
OF another Hayt ii independence is granted. The
Spaniards spoken OF the leading people, whose
wishes alone to be consulted and whose interests
require care. Incident to this discovery is the
disclosure OF the fact that the colored inhabitants
were the leaders OF the revolution against Spain AMI
the men who fought for independence in the swamps
and mountains. This being true they the people
OF Cuba who were said in our declaration of war
against Spain to be OF right independent, and in
whose behalf we demanded that Spain withdraw her
sovereignty. We said nothing about the leading
people" who are now consulted.
In the uneasy stages OF the public mind which pre-
coded the French revolution OF 1893 the interests OF
the leading people were uppermost in the minds OF
the Government One OF them, noble noted for
his rapacity and cruelty, having died his probable
destiny in the world under discussion in his
own set 1t was intmated that divine justice had
probably condemned him. when noble lady said Il
tell you God will think twice before he damns man
OF his quality"
it Is not necessary for our Government to initiate
France The race hat1eds in Cuba are now Just what
they were when we declared war against Spain.
Maceo, Gomez and the leaders OF the revolution,
whose merits the admiration OF Congress and
the people Of negro blood The staying quality
OF the instruction got its persistence from their like
and kind For them our citizens were violating the
neutrality laws by flibuserng arms and ammunition
for their use
We cannot plead surprise at this late day Ameri-
officers penetrated to the insurgent camps and
brought back reports. In magazine articles the whole
situation put before US. The coored race was
fighting Spain. and we said had fairly won the indie
pendence OF the island We cannot now successfully
play the part OF Tiglath pieser the Assyrian, who
went into the between Judah and Israel as an ally
and came out master. The American people want;
Cuban independence and thereafter they want tariff
protection against Cuban labor. They do not ask
a repetition OF Spanish folly in the bleeding OF the
island but they ask fair commercial intercourse which
will recognize the need OF preserving unframed the
standard OF American wages. We have prospered
without free trade with Cuba, and we propose not to
imper that prosperity by any experiments
Suppose that an independent government there be-
gins with disorders; they the habitual experience
OF all free governments. We had them and they
reached greater magnitude than they ever did in
Rome But no philosophical historian has ever said
that they proved incapacity for segovernment
Another discovery recently made is that the Cubans
are affected by the weakness of dying race the
Latin. We deny that there any symptoms Of
death in the Latin races The nfirmities that not
among the sixty millions OF congeners OF the Latin
races in Central and South America. and among the
Italians, French. Spaniards and Portuguese in Eu.
rope exactly the same characteristics that were
observed among the Romans in their best and
mighest days. The coored In contact with the
Latns have always taken on those peculiarities and
have usually accented them In turn it may be said
that the infrmes OF the Anglo-Saxons are only the
reflection OF the racial characteristics OF their an
cesors, and the members OF that race have no war
rant in morals to hold coroners inquest over other
or TO probate their estates 1t is time to have
done with such nonsense and to disembarrass our
revenues from prospective burden that will come ii
we assume the right to administer upon the Latin
estate in Cuba.