The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-14

by Any Provision Less Liberal
Than Universal Suffrage - Too
Much Politics the Trouble With
Cuba-Interesting Controversy.
HAVANA, Aug. 13-Juan Gualbero
Gomez, referring today to the assertion
OF Carlos Garcia that the race problem
IN Cuba could be solved by a limited edu-
cauonal franchise, declared that such a
solution was altogether out of the oues-
ton.
1t would be quite impossible" he said.
More than two-thirds of the army that
fought Tor liberty are black men, and a
majority, even of the colonies, cannot
read or write. Still they would demand
the right to vote and justly demand it.
What right has Carlos Garcia, I wish to
know, to represent Cuba? He is a Young
man and received the rank of Ieutanent
colonel solely because of his fathers
prestige. He has no political standing
ana no right to speak for any element
in Cuba. The trouble from the first has
been that too many such representative
men have talked to the newspapers.
am convinced that anything but universal
suffrage would be an injustice to the
great majority of the Cubans"
INTERESTING CONTROVERSY.
An interesting controversy has resulted
over correspondence between Director of
Posts Rathbone and Mr.. Griffith. the
British consul general, regarding letters
belonging to Senior Morales, which the
former has detained on the ground that
thnyy
Morales, who is Jamaican, claims Brit
ish citizenship and through Griffith wants
damages for the opening and holding of
MS mail In violation of existing law.
At one time he was engaged in selling
stamps and he signed a sworn acknowI-
edgment of the supremacy Of the United
States In the island. This the director
OF posts claims prevents him making any
demands as a British subject On the
other hand Mr.. Griffith maintains that
any one could sign an acknowledgment
or fact without denationalizing himself
According to Mr. Griffith and Senior Ca
pote the proper course would have been
to deliver the letters to Morales and after
he had opened them to arrest him for
having lottery tickets in his possession
LESS POLITICS NEEDED.
The Suffrage Universal says: Cuba
needs less noisy politics, which foment
bad feeling, and less striving after the
ch1mera of premature liberty. A republic
means government by the people, but
what sort of government can be expected
OF a people Is per cent of whom cannot
read? study Of all the Latin-American
communities which, although free al
ternate between the extremes of anarchy
and despotism, being merely the play
things of factions and demagogues, shows
the real defects of lack of educa-
ton and their not having been well gov
erned by obtaining their own freedom.
Our former governors were incapable of
good government
What the island needs now is capital,
peace and security All these will be Sc
cured under American rule Our people.
unaccustomed to nobility, do not recog-
n1ze 1t, but when the Americans shall
have left the island, as is unfortunately
possible, the Cubans will recognize their
ingratitude and injustice toward the ma
ton which directed their first steps to-
wards freedom"
QUESTION OF DUTIES.
The Nuevo Pals says: cit will be easy
for Cuba to make a preferential treaty
with the United States admitting Cuban
sugar, as the production of the American
sugar-producing possessions is not half
enough to supply the American market
Ell Diario de la Marina says, in reply:
In four years the production of the
American sugar islands will have in
creased to such an extent that the United
States will have surplus and be al,
TO export sugar instead of being COM
PEELED to import it. This shows that the
economical and, consequently the political
future OF Cuba is entirely at the discre-
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