The age-herald., 1901-03-21
UNITED STATES WILL/NOT
 TRY TO BULLDOZE CHINA
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

some to the United States and annexa- ton finally seem the only solution.
 The trouble with the Cubans Is that they are excessively proud and resemble the youth who chafes under parental con- trol, and wants to go it alone before fully prepared, only to find later on that his capacity to care for himself had been overestimated. The Cubans resent our guardianship and think they can do bet ter alone, or, probably, secure some mod ification of the conditions insisted upon by the United States, that will give them a greater degree of independence They have been wrongly led to believe by de- signing Amrican politicians and by some of their own people, that if they hold out the United States will yield. Some of them expect a great deal from the oppo- sition party in this country Then, too, and just as important. the use of the word substantially in the Platt amend ment misleads them. The amendment provides that the conditions to be imposed on Cuba shall be substantially such and such. Substantially" was intended to give some latitude in the language to be employed in stating the conditions, but not in any sense to mean that the exact conditions can be changed.
 It Is the general expectation in Wash ington that after a great deal of talk, many protests, and the attempt to secure conditions they regard as more favorable. the Cubans will finally-and in the near future-yield to the inevitable with good grace. The conservative. better informed and more sensible Cubans, those who are not blinded by political ambition or in- gratitude or an exaggerated sense of the | power of the Cuban people, understand that tho conditions which the United | States imposes are not only reasonable and unselhsh. but are better for Cuba itself than absolute independence or any l iessening of the degree of American over- | sight possibly could be. Their influence will be employed to make the other Gu bans acquiescent. Then General Wood | can make it plain that the United States will not yield and the f1rmness of the American government itself-the appre- citation that the United States means ex- actly what it says-wiIl cause the accep- | tance of our conditions.
 | The United States In it's own interest, in view of It's obligations to other civil ized nations, in view of the financial in- terests of other countries in Cuba and in the interest of Cuba itself, must pursue the course marked out for it in the Platt amendment. Of that there is not the shade of shadow of a doubt.
 Surrender of FiIipinos.
 The growing frequency of the surrender l of Iilinino insurpents-that of Ijeuten- ant-General Mariana Trias with his nine officers and 199 men in particular-makes | the officials at the War Department very confident that the instruction is in it's final stages. It is not expected that all the armed opposition will end immediate l ly, but it is believed that the Filipinos 1 will come more and more to realize that armed opposition to the United States is not only fruitless and unwise, but that American sovereignty In the Philippines means a greater degree of civil liberty, of self-government and of good order than could possibly result even if Aguinaldo | were sincere and absolutely honest. The | establishment of civil governments in sev- eral Philippine provinces and the prepa- | Ol lut SeHefdi pldIl IOT lHe gov ernment of the islands under Judge Taft as governor, with the military power largely subordinated, used simply to strengthen and support the civil govern ment, following as this will the granting of extraordinary powers to the President in the government of the Philippines by the late Congress, should, in the judg:
 
 affairs, do most to make the Filipino op- position nothing but the raiding of disor- derly robbers, who will be gradually sup pressed. Were 1t not for the limitations as to franchises imposed on the President by the Hoar amendment, it is believed that the employment of thousands of Fil- ipinos in the development of the islands by American capital would within a very short period make them almost absolutely peaceful.