The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-31
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render our officers all possible aid in
crushing them.
Our success thus far in Cuba is but
an indication of what American infiu-
ences will accomplish in the Philippine
archipelago when the Luzon insurrec-
ton is once suppressed. Our task IN
the Orient will be more difficult because
we have the Malay race to deal with,
vastly larger population, territory
broken up into a great number of ISL
ands. and populated by sixty different
tribes. But we will succeed there as
we are succeeding in Cuba.
A month ago there was deal
Of talk through the press about in
creasing irritation in Cuba. Some of
the Cuban press lent their influence to
the agitation that began among those
Cubans who conceived the idea that
pacification had proceeded far enough
to justify the abandonment of the ISL
and by Americans, leaving affairs to
the administration Of the Cubans
wholly. But our representatives report
that such an act would result in seri-
Gus trouble, if not anarchy. 1t would
turn the island over to the radicals
and agitators, whose chief purpose is
to secure office and control, and enrich
themselves thereby.
This movement led to some express
sions by General Ludlow and General
Lee which angered the radicals, and
we had such exhibitions as that made
by "Patria," which in flaming head
lines declared that the Cubans would
have immediate independence or
DEATH" General Wood probably ex-
pressed the exact truth when he said
that while surprising advance has been
made In a single year, yet as but one in
five of all Cubans can read or write,
it would be folly to- turn the Govern
ment over to ignorance, since it would
result in swapping the better class and
giving to incompetency the full control
But the new generation is coming on.
The young Cubans are rapidly learn
ing. In very few years they will
have passed into active business and
Industrial life in their island, and
then, with full understanding Of Ameri-
can methods and purposes, they can be
entrusted with sole control. In short.
as Secretary Root well said in 4his re-
port to the President, we should not
remain in Cuba an hour beyond the
time when it is certain that the peo-
pie can establish and maintain a stable
and suitable Government.
1t is understood that General Wood
advises the immediate withdrawal Of
a portion of our forces to convince the
tons, and to manifest our confidence
in them But when the time comes for
the voting franchise to be introduced
there will arise serious question.
Colonel Garcia, who is solicitous for
early self-reliance for Cuba, believes
that intelligence should be made the
qualification, and this, he thinks, will
make it well nigh universal suffrage
for he declares the blacks to be far
more intelligent than the blacks in our
South, that their number has been ex-
aggerated, and that the people as a
whole are superior to and greatly more
intelligent than those of Hayti or Santo
Domingo.
General Wood, who has now been ap-
pointed Governor General to succeed
General Brooke, is convinced that Gu
ban peace is perfect, and that every
apparent obstacle to the complete
restoration Of Cuba to prosperous con-
ditions will be removed. Horatio Ru-
bens, prominent in Cuban politics and
attorney for the Cuban representatives
a tour of inspection in the island, and
reports that Cuba is at peace. more
peaceful indeed than most other ma
lions, in his opinion. The message of
President Mckinley, the letters and
regulations of Secretary Root and the
declarations of General Wood have, he
there is no discomfort, no demand for
our immediate abandonment of the ISL
and, and no longer any distrust of the
intentions of the Government Of the
United States, and that hence Cuba is
in the very best of ways to a solution
of every problem involved in her re-
Mobilization.
Out of the discussion now engrossing
so much attention, and which Congress
will soon take up. we must look for
wisdom to come forth, and we believe
it will: that there will be no hasty
conclusions reached, no yielding to the
agitators and no departure from the
policy that has done so much for the
island in the last twelve month.
Joseph Pulitzer in the North Ameri-
can Review" holds that Congress has
abdicated in favor of the President, by
failure to exercise the power it pos
sesses to control the relations we have
with our new possessions Mr. Pulitzer
is apparently troubled in soul about
Cuba and the war in the Philippines,
and it is all because he conceives that
the President has made himself party
dictator through party patronage. and
is proceeding without regard to Con-
gress and it's functions. All this is very