Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-06-29
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the rest Of it. It deceives nobody.
We are simply conquering 100000,
more or less, of nightly mixed Orient
ais, for what we think can be made off
OF them and their country. We may,
after we get done killing, footing, burn
ing, and laying waste in general, try to
bring the Tagals and the others up in
the way they ought to go, but that will
be done to crafty our pride, and in the
hope that it will help owardslining our
own pockets. -Chattanooga Tenn. J
1t is an i'll bird that fonls it's own nest.
1t is poor patriotism that ISLANDERS its
own people. What have the American
people ever done that would justify ev-
en- their bitterest enemy in saying what
the Chattanooga Chimes" here says,
aud the New York Evening Post"
copies without reproof and with APP
parent Endorsement?
The American people won liberty for
themselves in the American Revolution
and straightway opened their doors to
the oppressed OF all other lands, and IN
vited the poor to share the wealth Of
the new continent on equal terms with
the men who had won it by their blood
and treasure. They conquered liberty
for the African, and, the war over, tax
ed themselves, the South by direct tax
alton, the North by generous contribu-
tions, to give the African the same edu-
alton which they gave to their own
children. individuals have robbed and
plundered the Indians, but the Nation
as Nation has e expended millions in
giving to them education and lndustrl-
al civilization not always wisely, but
with generosity. BY purchase and by
war Americans have won more than
half the territory which they now pos
sess. They have not only extended on
er the inhab itants the same free insti-
buttons which they themselves enjoy
but they have offered the land to any
men, of any race or religious faith, who
WOulu occupy dltI Iu'
But this was what our fathers did.
Perhaps we, their sons, have degener-
ated. We have emancipated Cuba.
We have expended millionsof dollars
and hundreds of lives in this war Of
emancipation. And with what results?
It is less than ten months since the ar
mistice with Spain was agreed on, and
less than six months since the fin |
treaty was signed by President liGKin- |
ley, IS our administration since then
been devoted to seeing what we can
make out Of the Cuhans and lining our
pockets? Or has it been devoted to Civ
ing them the rights which Spain denied |
to them, life. liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness?
Here, in brief, is the record in Sansi
ago; similar work has been done IN
Havana, Guam tanamo, Baracoa, Gibara
Holgun. Santiago was indescribablgi
filthy. tits row as clean as New York
or Boston. It's dearth-rate was nearly |
seven hundred a week: its deathsrate |
now does not exceed thirty or fourty Il |
week. Its stores we're closed and its
streets idle; how its streets are full and
its stores open and full of buyers. 1t
was without market; it's market now
is as well supplied as those of our best
American cities of equal size. A year
ago there was pot a cultivated plant
within ten miles; now there is scarcely
an uncultivated acre. A year ago there
was not single public-school building
in the city; now there are seventeen ell
ementary and grammar schools, with
an average attendance of nearly 1000
pupils. Then governmental corruption
was universal: fraudulent accounts and
the exaction Of overpayment by offici-
ais was the rule; now they are almost
unknown. The courts are reorganized;
laws have been promulgated guarteen-
ing rights of person and property which
for threee centuries of Spanish misrule
have been unknown; bull fighting and
cock-fghting are prohibited: tradesmen
are required to give just measures; ac-
cording to standard weights and meas.
ures: Cubans have been appointed not
only to minor Offices, but as mayors, I'M
der United States supervision and sub
iect to United States veto, local self
government is already well under way.
Meanwhile Christian benevolence has
offered to provide Cubans who wish to
teach at home with free education to fit
them for their work, and has opened
free Christian churches to which al
reaay Cubans are focking in great num-
bers In nine months one church in
Santiago, the Baptist, has received Il
hundred and forty members.
WHAT reason las anyone to believe