Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-26

setting up a separate government over
Cuba, 1 answer that sue an error in
Cuba does not justify the same error
in the Philippines. l am speaking for
myself alone, but speaking thus l say
that for the good of Cuba more even
than for the good of the United States.
a separate government over Cuba, IN
controlled by the American republic.
never should have been promised. Cuba
is a mere extension of our Atlantic
coast line. 1t commands the ocean en-
frances to the Mississippi and the 18TH
milan canal. Jefferson's dearest dream
was that Cuba should belong to the
Unitedd States. To possess this extern
sion of American soil has been the
wish of every far-seeing statesman
from Jefferson to Blaine. Annexation
to the greatest nation in the world has
ever seen. would hav been a prouder
Cuban destiny than separate national
ity. AS an American possession, Cuba
might possibly have been fitted for
statehood in a period not much longer
han that in which Louisiana was pre-
pared for statehood. Even now the
work of regeneration-of cleansing cit
les, building roads. establishing posts,
erecting a system of universal educa-
ton and the action of all the forces
hat make up our civilization-is speed
ing Onward faster than at any time
or place in human history-American
administration! But yesterday there
We're less than 10000 Cuban children in
school; today there are nearly Isl. COO
Cuban children in school-American ad-
ministration! But yesterday Havana
was the source of our yellov fever
plaques; today it is nearly n healthy
as New Decentralization administra-
ton. When we stop this work and
withdraw our restraint, revolution will
succeed revolution, as in the Central
and South American countries; havana
again tester with the yellow death: sys-
tematic education again degenerate into
sporadic instances; and Cuba, which un-
der u control would nave been a source
of profit. power and glory to the re-
public and herself, will be a source
of irritation and of loss, of danger and
disease to boths The United States needs
Cuba for our protection, but Cuba needs
the United States for Cuba's salvation.
1.-THE resolution, hastily passed by all
parties in congress-. at an excited hour,
was an error which years of time, pro-
pinquity of location, common commerce,
mutual interests and similar dangers
surely will correct. Our great president,
jealous of American honor, rightly anx-
ious for the good name of the republic
above every other consideration, justly
counting the fulfillment of national en-
gagementS the most exalted national
achievements. considers that resolution
q pl OlHlS All AfIloIlCdh pIOIIllSe ulcdIlS
performance. And so the unnatural ex-
pertinent is to be tried. What war and
nature-aye, what God hath joined to-
gether is to be put asunder. I speak for
myself alone, but speaking thus, I say
that it will be an evil day for Cuba when
the stars and stripes COME down from
Castle MORO. I speak for myself alone,
but l believe that in this my voice
is the voice of the American mill
ions las it is the voice of the ultimate flu
ture. when I say that Porto Rico is ours,
and ours forever, and Cuba ought to have
been ours, and by the free choice of her
people some day will be ours, and ours
forever. We have a foreign nation on
our north. another on our southwest,
and now to permit another foreign ma
ton within cannon shot of our south
east coast will. indeed, create conditions
which will require that militarism which
the opposition to the government pre-
tend to fear. Think of Cuba in alliance
with England or Germany or France!
Think of Cuba a naval station and ally
Of one of the great foreign powers, every
one of whom is a rival of America! M
so my answer to Mr.. Bryan's comparison
is that if we have made a mistake in Gu
ba, we ought not to make the same mis-
take in the Philippines. And I predict
that within 25 years we shall again be
Cuba, but only after our commerce has
been paralyzed by revolution, after in
ternal d~issension has again spilled rivers
of Cuban blood, after the yellow fever
has again and again crossed over to our
southern coast from its hot-bed in Ha-
vana harbor, and after we nave assumed
hundreds of millions of dollars of Cu-
ban debt to prevent this island from fall
ing into the hands of a foreign power"