Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-16
SCHURMAN' 5 VIEWS.
He Believes Cubans Will Finally
Accept the Views Of
Congress.
Professor schurman Has Spent
Several Weeks Studying
Cuban Conditions.
Something About His Observa-
tons Of the People and
Politics.


New York. April ia dispatch from
Havana says
Jacob G. Schurman, president of Cor
nell University. who has sailed from
this city for New York, was In Cuba
for ten days studying the political sit
suation. He visited four of the, six
provinces of the island talked With
.Cubans Of all classes in their own
tongue and followed closely current
opinion as expressed in the Cuban
newspapers, of which he was an indie
fatigable reader. President Schurman
In an interview said:
The people Of Cuba are less excited
over the menace TO Cuban sovereignty
supposed to be contained in the Plat
amendment than are the politicians of
Havana. Indeed, business men and
owners Of property universally favor ar
immediate acceptance of the amend
ment, tho many told me they did not
dare state SO publicly.
The present political uncertainty is
.paralyzing to the movements of capital,
which are indispensable for the recov-
cry OF the prosperity of the island. So,
too. u majority of the educated men of
the country recognize the necessity
from the Cuban point of view OF the
protection and security guaranteed by
the Patt amendment. The opposition
comes from the poorest and most ignor-
amt section of the community, altho how
far they have views of their own and
how far they are Influenced by wire
pulling politicians il is Very difficult TO
determine.
Il have talked with both white and
BLACK ,ner alld onethird of the popu-
lation Of Cuba is colored. Many of ,iaese
have no idea whatever on the subject.
On the other hand l have been surprised
by the earnestness with which both.
white and colored--colored perhaps
more than white-have detained to me
against the amendment asa menace TO
their liberties and an insidious scheme
for reducing them TO colonial depend
encies ass oppressive as hat from which
the war With Spain delivered them.
OF course the knowledge of these
people is -proportioned 10 their zeal
The measure they oppose has no exist
ence. but such is their idea OF the
amendment and such their attitude
toward the product of their own mag
nation. Nor can YOU argue them out
OF this state of minG--the less so as
they represent the class that fought
both insurrections against Spain for the
independence of Cuba Nothing but the
fact of a self governing Cuoa will con-
Vince these people that their liberties
are not in danger There is the rub.
our military government has pre-
served order established sanitation
built public works, opened schools and
contributed to the restoration of prop
erty. but like every other military gov
eminent, 1t is incapable of generating
confidence. sympathy and an affection
between rulers and people.
| The great desideratum in Cuba is
the Immediate substitution of8civil gov
eminent of Cubans for Cubans. by Gu
bans for the military government of
1.-THE United States. But such a govern
ment will have no chance of success All
\ home or abroad without the guarantees
i carried in the Platt amendment. which
am fully persuaded, 10 desired in It's
essential contents by majority of the
peop,e of Cuba.
The problem, therefore, is to get the
convention to accept 1t. L do not for a
moment question the ability and pa
triotism OF the delegates, but believe
they are too much animated by the ir.
] reconciiabe spirit of the revolution
4 against Spain. in which many of Their
We're participants. but of which the
country is tired, knowing that the dan.
ger of tyranny, thanks to the United
States, has now passed away forever.
The United States must insist OF
acceptance of the Platt amendment
4 Opposition of the Cuban delegates mus
be overcome. believe both ends car
\ be attained by a conference between
a committee Of the convention and Presi
ldent Mckinley. The Cubans viii ther
state their desires to the highest au
thority inthe republic and the very op
ps..a.s';;. . 81 - viii predispose then
to be conciliatory and the tact and iii
plomacy of the president, combines
d with the self interest of the Cuban del
egates will discover way, either b
defining the conditions OF interventio
or abandoning the Isle of Pines o
snecifving the number 81 c,aiine Sta
tions or by some other formal conces
zion to reach an adjustment which wi
save the face Of the delegates and en-
able them to return to their politica
parties, bringing peace with honor. A
| the same time the firmness Of the pref
. ;ident may be equally trusted to main
tain the substance of an act of cor
5 gress, the terms Of which he is re
, CURED to substantially enforce.
Then will follow civil government
: Cuba by cubans and a renewal of col
!, dial relations with the United State
; and this consummation is devoutiy
, be wished
The Crescent Watch Case Compan
and the Courvsier-W Wilcox Manufactu
ing Company, both OF New York,
: whose shops strike began last wee
: gave notice tina, hereafter they will n
E recognize the National Engrayers All
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