The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-25
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the majority report of the delegates to
the constitutional convention at Havana
there is no room for difference of opinion
regarding the minority report. It ex-
presses the narrow, prejudiced and I'M
reasoning view of the relations of the
two countries
It is not very pleasant consideration,
but it is undeniable, that those who en-
tertaln the views conveyed in the mi
norlty report Of the Cuban convention on
the Plat amendment may be said to
embody 80 per cent of the leaders Of the
patriotic party of Cuba, of The men who
followed Maceo and Gomez. On the other
hand the delegates who stand for the
comparatively reasonable view of the sit
uatio6 may be taken as represent g the
pro-Spansh interest and opinion
It is quite probable that the press dis
patches lean rather heavily on the ma
jority report as not meeting the Amer
can requirements. Many of it's addenda
are well considered; others less so. But
underneath the entire production one
finds the same dislike and suspicion Of
America and Americans with which all
of our people who have been in Cuba are
so familiar
1t does not now matter what the atti-
tude of the administration may be-
There may be scheming and counter
scheming among the administration poll
ticiaus looking toward the annexation OF
the island with a view to their own i'm
mediate pecuniary gain. The great ques-
ton involved is national, not politi,
cal, one. The American people, not
Democrats or Republicans. as such, it.
Is who are now engaged in the con
sideration of this case. The nation has
wrought a great work Of Iteration for
a weak and struggling nationality It's
young men nocled to the national
standard in the avowed dissemination
to Hberate Cuba They confronted
Spanish bullets and bayonets, and died
like rats in the swamps and torrid heat
OF Cuba. The reeompense they ana
tEeic country receives is represented by
the conduct of this convention and its
various committees. And it is doubtful
whether there exists in history more
shocking instance of racial ingratitude.
We are compelled to take the disposi-
ton ana conduct of the convention and
its delegates as representing the senti-
ment OF the Cuban people 1t may be
that the common Cuban people, black
and white and mixed, as they are, may
take a more creditable position toward
the United States But to the world
they are bound by the attitude of their
constitutional Representatives. The mass
of them, however, may be regarded as
densely ignorant of the world and it's
affairs. and as having a purely emo
tional understanding of political or civil
liberty.
There ought to be enough in the ma
jority report as published on which, with
judicious action on the part of the rep
resentative OF the two peoples, to base
satisfactory adjustment which would
let us ont of Cuba with honor and with
out our national interests becoming en-
dangered. But whether there be or not
he is but poor American who will not
hold up The hands o. the administration
in presenting a laudable national act
being made to initiate to the injury Of
our national interests. Everything and
anHhins watch may occur to the judg-
meRq ttaof the executive department of the
general government as necessary to our
rroloS tion against the fantastic notions
Of liberty which prevail in Cuba viii be
sustained by the intelligent opinion of
the American people without regard to
party politics