The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-03
*RiSe. Fall
The river will rise slowly in the vicinity
Of st. Paul from now to Saturday night.
YESTERDAYS TEMPER TURES
'WashingtOn time q p. m. St. Paul..
CUBA'S FUTURE.

1t has been evident for some consider
able time past that the minor officers of
the Cuban army would do all in their
power to prevent the fulfllment of the
terms of tho United States order for the
payment and dispersion of the Cuban
army. 1t was not understood, however,
how far these men would carry their OPP
position. and no one was prepared to
observe the methods which they would
adopt to that end. Recent events reveal
the desperate nature Of the expedienjs
which were resorted to.
The G e has consistently expressed
its belief that the Cuban people, when
left to their own desires, would be found
not unworthy of the great services which
this people rendered to them. For race
that has lived for an entire generation
iii a condition of social chaos, and most
of whose able-bodied men have been in
arms in the prosecution of what prac-
tically was a guerrilla form of warfare,
the conduct of the Cubans since the es-
adjustment of the United States author
ity has belied all that has been urged by
their Spanish enemies as we'll as by the
few marplots who through our own press
and otherwise have sought to promote
the scheme of annexation.
There is now little doubt that the mass
Of the men who bore arms in the Cuban
cause will gladly accept the tender of the
United States. Thus far they have been
under the influence of their officers. Now
they are discharged from all military
obligation; and it is safe to say that
the only preventive hereafter against
their acceptance of our terms will be
that of physical inability to reach the
point of disbursement, or individual ig-
nOrance of the existence of the arrange
ment.
Gen. Brooke is entitled to much of the
credit of the success which is now as
sured. He has been beset by difficulties
of all kinds. The initial effort at dis
tribution was sufficiently disheartening;
and, attended as it was by the sneers of
the enemies of the Americans, it must
have been peculiarly painful to our rep
resentatives in Cuba
Gen. Gomez has been the object of
bitter attacks from all quarters His
own subordinates have denounced him.
The military assembly relieved him Of
his command, and he has been abused in
the most shocking manner by the press
of Havana. In addition to all this there
have been very few good words spoken
for him in the United States and many
bitter assaults made upon him in the
columns of our own press. He has vindi-
Gated himself against all his enemies,
Cubans and Americans, and stands today
the foremost patriot in Cuba.
What the future has in store for the
Cuban people 1t would be folly to predict.
But unless the testimony Of the men of
the best judgment and the best oppor-
tunities for judgment among our own
people in Cuba be at fault, or unless the
schemes of the military firebrands should
in the future prove more effective than
they have thus far there is a long period
of peace and national recuperation before
the Cuban nation. Every American
friend of Cuban liberty will entertain the
hope that our expectations in this re-
spect will be realized