Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-20
shall Cuba Have a chanee7


II has not been so long ago that any
reader Of The Journal should forget the
tempest Of excitement I'm the senate OF the
United States when imprisoned orators
hurled invective at Spanish tyrants and
General Weyler's reconcentrado camps
were depicted as specimens fragments
from Dante's Inferno IN real life.
And was Il not the wife OF one OF these
senators who took these matters so Sc
riousIy 70 heart that her heart literally
failed her and she passed on TO the great
beyond?
Her overwhelming sympathy for the
moor Cuban women and children over
came Mrs ThurstOn and she left this
world with her grief and sympathy for
the miserable creatures as a motor Tor
her husbands impasSioned speech before
the sense in their behalf. Senator Thurs
ton was a very pronounced Republican
and when he mace that pathetic appeal
for CuOa Il was supposed that the major
fly OF the house and senate backed by
President Mckinley as the executive.
would give Cuba all she could ask Tor IN
reciprocity and real assistance as soon
as the Spanish yoke was thrown on
Doubtless Cuba thought the way was
wide open after the treaty OF Paris. Tor
valuable trade with the United States.
Cuba had a fine trade with Spain in to-
hacco and sugar as well as other COM
mercial advantages, and bur for the mis-
could have continued 10 export sugar. to-
nacco and other salable products 10 old
gpafn But q hitch IS now discovered.
The reciprocity idea was for effect, IL did
not mean TO give Cuba anything az all.
except some oficials who, like Nicely and
Rathbone. could IL their pockets with
gold and swell in society Ike East Indian
nabobs, clothed with authority from the
United States government, 10 make things
hum.
a rift within the Lutte was heard when
the beet sugar combine uttered a rev
notes Of warning and entreaty 70 the cam
uafRn managers OF the Republican party.
Beet sugar. II seems. has been contriout-
ing literally TO politics. and beet sugar
could put its finger on beet sugar repre-
Eentatives no doubt.
50 Cuban prosperity Is now up TO beet
sugar and b. :. is about 20 whip the
frht Reciprocity was only a sounding
brass and a tinkIing cymbal-" 1t meant
foreign war with untold profits for army
contractors ship builders and mutinudin-
Gus appointments. and Cuba was the step
ping stone 70 the contamination OF a pro-
lie party success in 1900.
But beet sugar woke up 10 the TACT that
Cuban sugar mills and real sugar cane
would make sugar more plentiful and
easier to reach the poor mans table, and
give Cuban labor full dinner pail.
Beet sugar has no idea OF giving such
an advantage TO anybody. after It put the
Republican party in the saddle 70 ride
down any opposition to beet sugar de-
rnands and spent its money 10 make sure
when Mrs. Thurston died and her Wild
over husband plead for Cuba as a moth
er would plead for her child, beet sugar
had not put in an appearance and had
not signed a considerable check for the
Mckinley ticket 70 protect sugar. So
when Cuba was turned over TO a new
master and Senator ThurstOn comforted
himself with a new wife, then beet sugar
said there must be no nonsense In this
sugar business"
AS the old man said to his slow buggy
mare: What do feed you for. Betsy7'
when he laid the hickory sprout on Bet
sy's back.
Beet sugar has some votes as well as
money that are worth having. in a cam
paign year. and the majority party finds
itself between the - and the deep blue
sea on reciprocity with Cuba. II II re-
fuses 70 allow Cuban planters 20 sell su-
gar except at a heavy loss because OF
protective tarills on American sugar, then
Senator Thurston's speech for Cuba VIII
make a fine campaign document for the
other or minority party.
II Cuban sugar has liberty 70 come In
with q reduced tariff. then beet sugar
viii spend its campaign money in another
direction
-Four times the grand sachems have
called a council meeting. but beet sugar
has some plucSy servants to work for
its interests. 50 they fail TO agree
on the other side. the Democrats are
waiting and smiling. IL Is six Of one and
half a dozen OF the other with their cam
paign orators. Reciprocity and beet sugar
do not gffe them any uneasiness what
ever II IS none Of their funeral. They are
rot in the melee. and every time the grand
sachems meet and beet sugar slaves on
an agreement. the better they are pleased
Meanwhile poor war-devasted Cuba sees
herself like the man In the fable who
had an old and young wife One pulled
all the black hairs out OF his head and
the other the gray ones Between them
his head was as bare as billiard ball.
Poor Cuba