Arizona republican., 1899-09-03
CUBAN IDEAS CHANGE
GrOWiuQ Sentiment in Favor
 of Annexation.
Natives and Foreigners in inc Is- land Feel Need of American Pro- feCfion Belief That Military Governors Approve.

ring of 'Inle year eVsry few weeks have
 Tent a d3fferent phase to the pcglafcal
 situelion in Cuba, but there has prob
 ably been a more pronounced change
 of Jen1imen't and of feeling gIaduaIly y
 c.!-lsping over tta people and papers
 during the last two months than a,
 any ciIJzr pericd sl:2ca the American ] cccurattion
 The glensTal opinion, formerly in flavor of Immediate Independence, has -teen cIon-GlllRlbfy modified, and some
 of the ml5c5t enthusiastic independent
 fists new urge a continuation of the
 American occupation fer at Hast a
 yeah or twto. Others desire a protec-
 tloIGitle of eight CT tn years, while the
 ranks of glhie annaxa,ioEl.sts have, been
 largely augmented.
 A few weeks ago it was considered eCnl1st treason on tine part of a Cuban to say he wnIs m flavor of annexation.
 but r5w tt is eL~r1d and spoken about by
 Cubanls tl1, clubs, in cafes, in the parks ar:il squares and on the a1ieels. That is especially noticeable amang net emily merchants, brokers and bankers, but amlonlg clerks and professional men.
 T4JA most renlalihsble change has taken plaae in the precs, for fr3m one eEtD of the island ito .hIsi other many of the GeaIGing papers that rp to two mio415hts ago were urging immediate evlslcIlat:tr1 by tlaa UnGJrI1 States troops and 'uhiel putting in power of Cuban government nlow urge dl1ay. As a re- sllHt net a d2y passes without some pa peirts calling anothcr paper a traiSor to the cause ctf Cuba Libre. D-ce.C-ng has approximately gone out of fashicn here, but if similar in'in1ities passed !bajwaen papers in FT3Giae instead of in the Pearl of the Antilles bhere would be occasion fer pistols.
 lAnEdher marked change is that in ths remarks made by the. Ams-Ecan military governors throughout the is 7arld Formerly in tihsir public ad- dresses, although they promised the CUibans nothing, Hhey always led thefm to E-Cfeve in the near future the entire affaflls of thlel iscand wouId be turned over to them. The governors no long, eel speak of that and the people have nl1ticeI it anti believe that almost without exosrtilom the military gov ernors in Cuba fav9ai been convinced Of the imposslbilLlty of an immediate of American protection.
 Tine military gioverncrs, u is be lieved, have communicated their views to the governor -gen.aTIal and he prob ably agree5 with themL It iso prob able, too, Shat fulE information cn the subject is i'm the hands of the presi- d-l.t and lis cabinet.
 The average American who has ar rived in Cuba during the last few has come believing that Cuba should have immediate independence. With few exceptions they have changed their minds before thsy have been three months on the island. That 1 does not apply alone to army officers and to merchants whose business might be improved by the continuance of AnIerican protection, but also to tourists, and people con- i leic.1ed with chlar.i,ies.
 T1le more open talk of CubanS In ;avor of annexaItf3n may be due to the 'aQt that they think the time is now getting lfpa for something to be said 1ut-fcly and aloud on the subject, or t may be due 10 the fact that after eight rnontEl5 of AmleTl]can rule they rave lelarn.i tl,.e benefits of free speech and know that they can ex- press opinions on subjects political, even if they are against the policy of hleI administration, w15hor.s fear of be- ng taken off to Cabanas and shot.
 About two mcnths sgo a paper was Jtarted in Puerto Prfnofpe, the capital # the province of that name, devcted o the cause Of those favOwing annexa- ion. Another was to commence op- notions in Havana today. Acicher me is 70 be Gssued this month at San ;ago. These papers are backed by people, and the announced ause for the existence is the e'duc@Ih.cn f the people to the G00.rane of an- lexaticn. Tihousarid5 of copies CC Ell ] iufrtagIo Universal are lri5Ue1 fil-e fach week. in all the different provinces. lbie writer's control the editorial col 1mrl5, and ,1here is littEe doubt that heiiu inf1uSnida has done much to bring 1 bout the general change of sentiment. l The editor of La Epooa, Dr. Francisco 7iguenas, is a we'll known writer and ngu1ist and a prominent lawyer of I favana and a Cuban by birth and 
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