The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-04-20

have been on the stand, little that
! was either new or important was
|, brought out. Several acts Of the
court have served to deepen the i'm
preston Of the unparalleled public,
especially its fiat refusal to summon
six particular witnesses whose names
were furnished by Miles.
Representative Packer, of Pennsyl-
vania, who have just retained from a
visit ID Cuba, said: "The impress
sion | got was that our troops will
have to stay down there a long time.
One Of our leading Generals talked
the situation we with me fully and
frankly. His idea is that Congress
made a fearful mistake in adopting
the Teller resolution that disclaimed
any intention on Il part to annex
Cuba. The respectable and educated
element-mostly SPONTANEOUSLY they
will be glad to see annexation come
about speedily. but the General was
not sure how far these people could
be depended upon to make good their
talk. If an election were held at an
early day. they might vote contrary
to their declarations, about the de-
STABILITY of annexation. All the
Americans over there are of the
opinion that Cuba, must, sooner or
later be annexed to the U. S., but
how soon, or under what circum-
stances, they do not pretend to pre-
dict"
The disposition at the German
Embassy to consider the Samoan
question disposed of, now that it has
been arranged that Commissioners
representing the United States, Great
Britain and Germany shall sail from
San Francisco on the 25th inst, with
authority to make temporary changes
in the Government of Samoa, pend
ing the consideration of their reports
by their respective governments, is
not shared by many Americans.
American officers and men were killed
in ambush nea Apia, and the charge
made that the ambush was the result
OF German treachery. If investiga-
ton shall show that charge to be un-
true, Americans will rejoice; if not,
they will demand full reparation
from Germany, and they will refuse 4,
consider the matter closed until {
result of the Investigation is i
known. Americans do not regard G
appointment and departure of the t
as settling the matter, /
as starting in the proper way to
get at the bottom of it. If there has +
been wrong doing, whether by Amer
cans, Germans or Englishmen, it C
must be not only shown up, but |
punished. :
Secretary Alger, who has returned
rom a trip to Cuba and Porto Rico,
nd resumed his position at the head I
t the War Department, doesn't talk I
a man who has any idea of re- !
in fact, he very distinctly
avs he has no such idea. On the
ontrary, he talks of the work in ,
and Porto Rico as though lie
expected to be connected with it for
long time. He says the greatest 1
eed of Cuba is education for the
lasseS; that there is comparatively J
tile distress now on the island, )
mong men, and that the condition \
the INDECENT widows and children :
being steadily improved, and he {
aid this compliment to our boys in {
Iue: 81 never saw, anywhere, a {
ner body of men than the American
now in Cuba" He summed .
p his trip thusly: 81 am more than )
OF course, | realize that =
lere is a great deal yet to be done, =
nd that perfection is a plant of slow q
| return, however, with un- Z
l%estioning faith in the future. 8
turn, too, a better American, if Q
a thing be possible, than when Q
went away. When | realize how 3
eat a work the U. S. has under Z
ken and how magniicently that <
ork is being accomplished, | feel <
at Il country has taken another q
ride forward in the noble task of D
lping to c%ivilize and uplift human .
2. The time is not far distant-if, 2
deed, it is not already at hand,- g
len the people of Cuba and Porto z
rise up and call us blessed. In
3 fastening of that day. every 8
nerlcan has a common interest and D
q
inspector General Breckenridge =
some amusing stories of what he =
v while on his tour of inspection <
Cuba and Porto Rico. One of 4
IN is in connection with the whole. =
e vaccination hat is now being D
in Porto Rico, by u. S. Sur Q
ms. Instead of running away z
. vaccination. as many OF our own 9
have been known to do. Gen.
.'ekinridge says the Porto Ricans =
after the vaccinators. bel;av;no