Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-25
AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE.

| A few weeks ago La Discussion a
Hayanese newspaper published an In
terview with Admiral Dewey in which
! the admiral spoke of the close rela-
tons which would always exist between
! the republic of Cuba and the republic
! of the United States and said that the
marines. which are stationed at Guam
tanamo and Hahai Honda were not
placed there to threaten the Cuban
Republic, but to protect her. The paper
followed this with an editorial ex-
pressive of the gratitude of the Cuban
people for the disinterested aid given
by the American republic to the Cubans
in the time of need and in the organi ;
cation of the new government. This
brought on a vicious attack from the
Spanish press accusing La Discussion
of disloyalty 10 its race and asserting
that the Americans are influencing
Cuban political life and destroying the
private and public customs destructive.
of the race.
The reply of La Discussion to this
assault is interesting as an expression
of Cuban feeling toward the United
States. La Discussion recites the his
tory of the Intervention which saved
the reconcentratos from starvation
and bound the hands Of the great
o. caccip woyJarv apd how ,ftaru-a ,,Jo
they FASTENED the hour of indepen-
dence with their cannon La Dis
custom is proud to admit the tremen-
dous influence of America in the polit-
ical life of Cuba and its public and
private customs. The influence is true
and carries with 1t the loss of racial
character because the bath of civili-
zation and democracy with which the
American Intervention favored US,
cleansed our republic of all of the Inn
purities which stain and dishonor
many of our sister republics on the
American continent"
Continuing La Discussion says:
1t is true that we have been influ-
enced. We We're taught to understand
that instruction and learning were
the bases of progress and greatness
honored of the people, and in stead OF
the school teacher being the expo
nent OF all the miseries, the symbols
of all the misfortunes and the incar-
nation of all the privations,, while
the bullfighter and the friar We're the
prototypes of supreme distinction and
supreme graildness. that we should
Danish these because the first IS
barbarous. and the second Is immoral
and lift up that which recompenses
and stimulates, with the austerity OF
its ministry and the prestige of its
labor. They taught us that
With fraud in the customs that taxes
could not prosper and that with a
rogue In the administration no country
could become vigorous. And they
gave us the example-followed by US
- how to punish one who defrauds
the state. even when related to or is
a friend to great man of his country.
All Of these things have powerfully
influenced our customs: decidedly our
life, and their effects has been to en-
rich our treasury, to have a moral ef-
feet on our social life, exalting and ele-
waiting our patriotic dignity. This has
made and will make the difference
between Cuba and the other Spanish
American countries. For all this, we
repeat. we have 10 be greatly, very
greatly, infinitely grateful to the no
Bile, to the generous. to the civilized,
to the democratic American people.
and for this reason we respond to the
phrases of the yaaorous Admiral Dewey
the vigorous and magnificent hero Al
Cavite with our gratitude. saying. as
did he. that in each Cuban breast bea IS
a heart filed with brotherly love for
those who We're our allies in war and
our best friends in peace.