Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-06-06
The Annexation OF Cuba.

The Annexation Of Cuba.
The element In the country which
prides itself upon Its Gieaier Ameri-
canism has devised a very shrewd and
skilful plan to hasten the ultimate
absorption of Cuba. We are disposed
TO admit that il possesses some very
attactive features and we cannot deny
that 10 will be ultimately successful,
unless our Emperor OF Expediency
finds some way to hasten matters and
does it oil himself before the Grester
American party can get control Of
thugs. We all remember how. the
Hawaiian matter was engineered. Some
OF us thought at the time that we had
absorbed a foreign government and Its
people, but We discovered afterward
that we bad merely annexed an Ameti-
cah colony, with comic opera queen
and few natives thrown in to giye a
local color to the performance. Well
that is what we propose to DO now IN
Cuba. We have learned how TO do it
with ease and effectiveness by ex-
perience aud we are assured by the
management that there will be no
bitches IN the scenery aud no I'M
reasonable delay between the acts.
The Teller resolution asserted we
were to leave the government and con-
troll OF the island to it's people. but
that obstacle has now been removed by
the willy William, who seized upo1 its
moral hump and had Congress in
corporate Its ingredients into an
amendment which, with some Rootinn
additions, the Uubans have swallowed.
The way is now open for the inaugu-
ration of the Greater American party's
plnn OF absorption and they have
already set about its contamination.
The population Of the island at the
present time consists of natives and
large percentage of Spanish Immigrants.
The Greater American party proposes
that in the near future the population
shall consist Of natives, SEaniards and
a large percentage of American in--
migrants. These American immigrants
are TO be men with capital who will
invest their money in real estate,
mines, sugar plantations. build rail-
roads, set up manufactures, and do
all sorts of things that will finally
squeeze out the native and the Spaniard
and place the business and the moneyed
interests OF the islands in the hands of
American holders. When this Is accom-
plished IL is hoped that the Cuban
will have become sufficiently educated,
or sufficiently astute, to recognize that
his material welfare depends upon his
adherence 10 and support Of the domi-
nant money power. In other words,
he will be expected to do as the
American workman does-vote with
his employer, when by so doing he will
increase his wages and better his con-
dition. II any Of the native element
should object to this arrangement its
influence will be checked and dis
J counted by bowling 1t down with cries
OF rebelliousness, ignorant Justification,
and selfish doings OF petty politicians
! out Of office. &c. Then will come q
, plea from the island for annexation to
, the United States and the Greater
} American party will whoor it up and
say See, the Cubans want US to take
} them; let US do it, And we will dc
. 1t. 1t Is all very beautiful scheme,
, and we do not object TO ID in the least.
: What would be the use? In Truth, we
3 rather favor it, because It is far more
{ honorable and fair than the one now
? being followed by the Hon. William
: Mckinley, who is trying to secur,
. annexation by the help of none to,
: conscientious Congress and the wilfu
( twisting of the meaning and intent o
: the law. The plan of the Greater
American party is to down the Uubar
4 by the aggressive use of money ant
8 superior business ability; the admins
tration's plan is to euohre and tricl
8 him out of his birthright by abtrus
n Congressional resolutions and sicl
J. Interpretations We prefer the plal
Q OF the Greater Americans.