The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-02-20


They engage their thought. They are
entitled to more than cheap and loud
harangues in newspapers or in speeches
in Congress. Happily the nation is in
? position justly to deal with them.
Happily no partisan capital can be
made by any forced or incomplete con-
sideration Of them. The federal ad-
minstrstion has been constituted and
instructed for four years. A Senate
overwhelmingly in eympsthy with it
has been secured for six years. A
House with the same views has been
chosen for two years. The instrumer-
talities are in hand. They cannot be
swerved from what they believe to be
right by any vehemence, however
clamorous or concerted, to use the
Cuban case as preteXt for bringing
on to view the programme and policy
deliberately rejected when William j.
Bryan was defeated and William Nc
Kinley elected
The much talked of Teller resolution,
which should never have been passed,
is not the only thing to be taken into
account, And even it simply disclaims
the purpose OF the United States to do
more than aid Cuba TO establish a stable
government of her own people. That is
the whole of il. On the face of things
any such government would have to
depend on the stability of its provisions
for this country to permit it or to recog-
nize it. The provisions proposed for
it are set forth in the constitution
which has been offered to the scrutiny
of the world. That document Is want
ing in several elements of stability. Its
omissions are very grave, so grave that
Governor General Wood has been
obliged to tell its makers that it should
be changed in order to secure these
guarantees:
The island in any framework OF rule must
meet the question OF it's ability to preserve
the peace and maintain stable govern
| ment.
1t must provide for the avoidance Of for
| eign entanglements and for the protection OF
| its foreign population.
1t must protect the credit Of the island
and prevent unnecessary and unjust debts
| 1t must guarantee the United States
| against unreasonable tariff duties and dis
! C. limitations.
1t must permit the maintenance Of at leas
two coaling depots and naval supply anC
repair sta ions in convenient harbors.
III musG Insure Vue OHlJbu OldUtS anu Iut
| world against the repetition OF the history
of Hsyti and Ssnto Domingo in Cuba,
These are the least stipulations tina
deed, be more. We should insist oil
the disallowance by Cuba OF the deb
Spain sought to bond on her for he
suhiugation. We should demand fron
the revenues of the island the rem
bursement of the United States at leas
in part fer the cost on US of the wa
with Spain on behalf of the delivery {
Cuba from Spain. And to discharge I
mankind the responsibility for Cuba |
which the world holds us, we sboul
demand control by the United States
all foreign treaties made by the Cuba
| government.
These requirements are necessary
equip with stability any goverumel
whatever in Cuba. They are of the g
.sence of the Teller resolution, it's tran
lation into concrete terms. They diff
from the statements of those who 81
we should ecuttle out of Cuba bag ar
baggage, without any guarantees wha
| ever. Those who are so anxious to di
credit an administration as to be wi
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confusion among the balances of Il
world are not judicially minded. The
Can rsil, but they do not reason. The
can multiply disgraceful imputatiol
and SOW the seedE of suspicion. B.
they cannot make States and the Ame
lean people will see they shall not Ill
make them. The conservative, deliI
crate and comprehensive course is tt
one TO pursue. II is being pursued
those entrusted with the action of Ii
United States. The President dot
we'll to cast GU Congress its share Of r
sponsibility in the case. He will me,
his own share, and both Congress an
the President should recognize til
trHs,eeship of the United States, M
for chaos but for order, not for ''pol
tics" but for civilization, not for sent
meat but for justice, not for merel
the present bat for the future in tn
settlements between Cuba and tn
world for which our dominating dut
can neither be avoided nor deferred
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