Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-19
OUR STATIONS IN CUBA.
[New york Tribune.l1

we nave dlfeduy poiHteQ out the sig
nificant fact that the settlement of Gu
ban affairs which was undertaken three
| years ago, and in Which the Plat
amendment is an essential and impor-
tant step, is simply the reasonable and
natural elimination of the consistent
policy pursued by the United States for
| three-quarters of a century. 1t must be
Obvious that having for so long pursued
| that policy, at such cost of blood and
treasure and at such risk of greater cost,
and having at last made that policy tri-
umphant in the rescue Of Cuba from
/ ruin and in placing 1T upon the road to
/ good government and good neighbour
ship. the United States can not afford to
/ sacrifice single essential detail of what
has been achieved.
/ Foremost among the means of avoid
4 ing the danger of such sacrifice, and of
assuring the maintenance of all which
has been accomplished both for Cuba
and for ourselves, will be the judcious
execution of the seventh clause of the
Platt amendment, which has now been
/ accepted and adopted just as it stands
by Cuba, and which is to form an inte-
grail part of a permanent treaty between.
4 Cuba and the United States. That
| clause provides-
THAT to enable the United States TO
maintain the independence of Cuba and
1 to protect the people thereof. as we'll as
for its own defense, the government Of
Cuba will sell or lease TO the United
States lands necessary for coaling or
naval stations at certain specified
points. to be agreed upon with the presi-.
! dent of the United States"
| That clause should be fulfilled in ac-
cordance with its own spirit-=tflat is to
4 say, in such a manner rs will best serve
the ends named. The coaling and naval
stations are to be acquired ito enable
Z the United States to maintain the indie
pendence of cuba and to protect the
people thereof, as we'll as for its own
defense" The places selected are there
fore to be such as will hest enable this
country to protect Cuba III against for
eign attack and t2) against domestic
disorders: while t3) they must also be
adapted to the defense of the United
States by best protecting its coast from
attack and the Gulf Of Mexico from
hostile entrance. They must be vantas.
points from which. in case of trouble
& With any foreign power, this country
could most promptly and most efficient
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