The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-03-02

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t-, politicians who arrogate to themselves the
l CUBA AND right to the If he really has taken
"THE con- a stand in opposition to the immediate
SENT or THE render of Cuba to the tender mercies of
l GOVERNED its motley of patriots, he is at
A-I tempting to render his people service in
peace greater than any be did them in
The most utopan of all political theories is that of
of universal equality the most disastrous of all po
ltcaI EXPERIMENTS especially to state is that of
universal suffrage That such experiment would he at
tempted in Cuba, Immediately upon the withdrawal Of
American CONTROL is too PLAIN proposition to admit of
discussion What the result of such experiment would
be already testified to by the perennial chaos nasquer
aiding government in the states of South and Central
America 1t has been than seventyfye years since
the great apostle of the segoverng idea wrote of these
very people, composing the population of certain
South American states The qualifications for selfgov
ernmen in society not innate They are the result of
habit and long training For these, they the Spanish
Am, ricans will require time and probably much suffer-
ing He is also responsible for the statement that he
feared he Span:ars" be 'too heavily oppressed by
ignorance and superstition for sefgovernmeDt." Yet
the experiment tried, and all the years since he
wrote but served to prove how well founded we're
his And Jefferson is the under the aegis of
whose it has been earnestly attempted to demon
strate that selfgovernmen not only divine right
but also of opopanax for healing all the Ills of gov
eminent that troubled the people of Cuba and the Philip
pines.
1t avails nothing answer, ' is of ours,
If the people of Cuba not capable of properly govern
ing themselves; have said that they ought to be free
and independent, and have pledged ourselves to make
them so The refusal the United States surrender
Cuba to It's people at once just because they have
framed constitutions cannot be twisted into
ton of our pledges for every American promise has been
based upon the previous establishment Of stable govern
In far pledges and promises 60, however, it has
in he Of fol-
disregard many given with more sincerity and posi-
by of fn6ment than surrounded the forced declaration
Of sentimental under which the Spanish American
war was begun 1t declared by the whose name
is now coupled with Jefersons, twin apostle of the
rights of man. be venerated by all true believers in the
democracy, that in the matter OF interference with
their slaves by Republican administration the Southern
people woud be in danger than in the days of
Washington" Mr.. Lincoln made this solemn assertion
after South Carolina had seeded from the Union To
90 further, he sad in his inaugural address. 81 have
purpose directly indirectly to interfere with tie inst-
tuition of slavery in the states where it exists
IdRvE HAVE NO LAWFUL RIGHT so and have no
inclination to do So" Yet the Emancipation Procama
ton" is today of Americas historic documents and it
hears the signature of the author of these WORTHWHILE
the world gorifes him 'the great emancipation" =
What do the champions of suffering humanity say about
the breaking of the solemn of pledges by their new
patron santa
Governments must treat conditions they arise and
as the cold reasoning of necessity dictates History ust
es Lncons course upon the grounds of expediency
history will justify whatever action the govern
of the United States takes toward Cuba If only the
SAME plpa may be entered in its behalf Common sense
and expediency and necessity should determine
mot tho wailing voice Of sentiment
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The nrooress of events daily emphasizes the stupidty