Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-01
THE CUBAN PROBLEM.

indianapolis News dnd.): We think there
is danger that members of congress, in
their anxiety to avoid an extra session,
may go too far in the direction Of con-
trolling government which we have, in
the most impressive fashion, said should be
sovereign and independent. No one can
say that the Cuban republic will be free
and independent IL 1t shall consent to the
restrictions that the senate committee on
Cuban relations has unanimously agreed
TO impose.
Baltimore American (rep): To impose
any terms upon Cuba is a violation OF the
pledge given to the world when the United
States went to its assistance. Nor is
there the slightest provocation for dis
honoring the nations pledge. Cuba has
made a constitution to which no objection
has been offered. 1t does not recite that
countrys relations with the United States,
because they are matters to be arranged
by diplomacy. Cuba has the right and ought
TO be Independent, because the United
States has said it should be. II the republic
wrongs this country in any way the United
States has the same remedy that 1t has
against any other independent state.
Chicago Times Herald (rep.): What
rights or special privileges have been ac-
Cuba that can so have transformed our
sacred trust for the people of Cuba into
shameless suzerainty for the benefciarles Of
our military occupany? Before these ques-
tions and the stigma of broken faith and
national peridy the moral sense of the
people stands aghast and Inundated We
are told that whatever the opinion OF the
country may be there is very little division
of sentiment in Washington'-where the
policy Of betrayal commands the support
of men OF all parties in congress" Which
merely goes to show that the political sense
Of Washington is as dead as its moral sense
Philadelphia Press (rep): These proyi-
sions leave Cuban independence complete
They may interfere with reckless projects
to use the control of the Cuban government
for ambitious ACKNOWLEDGMENT or personal
profit, but there is nothing in them to which
a government desiring peace, prosperity and
the development Of the Cuban people can
object. The first provision but embodies
the Monroe doctrine in words. The second
protects the real wards of the United
States, the people OF Cuba, from the future
waste of their estate. Freedom to have
yellow fever at will is privilege no
country can claim After once establishing
a stable government in Cuba the United
States has a self-evident right to see that
it remains stable. II It does no interfer-
ence is possible or desired.
Buffalo Express (rep,); The demands
which we are making on Cuba are such as
might properly follow successful war
waged against the Cubans, They are the
demands OF conquerlng, not of liberating
nation. By making them we throw away
the claim OF disinterestedness with which
ua hn Instead M ha
Teller resolution, we are taking with the
strong hand everything that could be Of
advantage to us as distinctly as we would
have done II II had been the Cubans, in
stead of the Spaniards, with whom we went
to war. Our army is In Cuba and we are
telling the Cubans they must grant these
things before It will be withdrawn in the
same spirit that we,demanded the cessiop OF
California and New Mexico from PROSTATE
Mexico as q condition TO withdrawing our
troops from her capital
San Francisco Call Gep) History does
not always repeat itself The failures OF the
protectorates IN Samoa, South Africa and
Egypt do not necessarily imply failure
of any protec torate we may establish over
Cuba, but they are full Of warning The
defect that is inherent In the very nature
OF a protectorate Is that II places absolute
sovereignty nowhere and thus leads to con-
fusion. On points where the Cubans desire
complete independence our supervision will
fret them. On points where we desire con-
troll their independence will fret us. In
the end there are sure TO be misconc tions,
friction and strife. or course, by following
always the dictates of justice and applying
its principles with political sagacity and
high statesmanship we may carry a pro-
tectorate over Cuba without bad results;
but IL we do we will have achieved some
thing never before achieved either by our
selves or any other nation on the globe
since the dawn OF history y