Arizona republican., 1905-12-23
THERE'S UNREST YET
 IN ISLE OF PINES
The AdharentS Of Annexation Still in
 State Of Agitation.


 The Republican has received a copy of the Isle of Pines Appeal which, though admitting the failure of the Americans there to annex the island to the United States. still vigorously insists that the project was a proper one and that the president and his ad- visers did not know what they were about.
 The Appeal thus pays its cOmpli- ments to Secretary Root:
 If Secretary Root is the whole gov ernment of the United States, then the Isle of Pines treaty will be ratified by the senate at the first possible oppor- , tunity. Mir. Root is not the whole gov ernment at Washington any more than is Senator Cullom, the chairman of the foreign relations committee of the sen ate.
 That MT. Root, secretary of state is attempting to be consistent with Mir Root. secretary of war, in the matter 7 Of the ownership of the Isle of Pines, there is no doubt, but that very ancient axiom that wise men sometimes change their minds, fools never ap-
 plies in the present case.
 | Several years ago MT. Root deter
 mined as secretary of war that the Isle
 of Pines should belong to Cuba in the
 face Of good evidence to the contrary,
 and his stubbornness. which in a cattle
 country would be called "bull-headed-
 ness," has prevented him from chang
 ing his mind even in the face of many
 things which should have induced him
 to see things through unprejudiced
 eyes.
 "In attempting to initiate his strenu-
 ous master in stTenuoUsness MT. Root
 has done some wondrous things and
 the action which he has taken lately
 in regard to the Isle of Pines is not the
 least of these.
 Root versus Root would not look
 well in print and this is what the hon.
 orabIe secretary feared when he so
 positively declined to listen to truth or reason.
 Who ever heard of an alleged good lawyer making a good secretary oi anything, any more than a Central Valley school teacher making a good
 president? We are told in the splendid
 book Paradise Lost as well as other
 good books, that there are places where the righteous man is rewarded accord
 ing to his merit and We are also in-
 formed that he who does things in con-
 tradiction to the dictates Of his con- science and just because he imagines
 he may profit thereby is given a diff
 ferent kind of a hereafter reception The Appeal quotes a ludicrous poem called Poor Little Isle of Pines" and with some bitterness describes the au-
 thor as "one of those Eeniuses who | 1.
 turies." Under the headlines "The Snakes are Active" and "In the Grass the Appeal alludes to the report of the Havana commission on the condition Oi unrest in the island. which report was
 printed in this country and contained a protest from residents of the island against annexation.
 There is also an opinion of a "great
 international lawyer" whose name is
 withheld, on the ownership of the Isle
 of Pines. In concluding a foUr-columr discourse he says:
 "The treaty so negotiated has never
 been ratified by the senate of the United States. The American citizens who have settled in the Isle of Pines . and invested their savings there, or the assurance of their own government that they were on American soil and under American protection, had beer unwilling 10 allow themselves to be betrayed and abandoned by the same government, after a change of policy for which no respectful reason or eX- planation has been made public. They have succeeded in preventing. for moro than two years, the confirmation of 2 treaty the effect of which would be tC deprive them of their birth-rights anC hand them over to an alien govern ment which. after more than three years experience of it's workings has not gained their respect. The treaty may after all, be ratified by the sen ate, for the entire strength of the ad- I ministratiOn has been and. no doubt will be eXerted to secure that end: bu it will not be until every legitimate effort has been made to defeat it by those who will be most deeply injured by its success and until every effor has been exerted to make public a: widely as possible the facts and mo tiyes which have seemed to make sucl treaty desired by even a single rep. ! resentative of the government of tht United States"
 . There is also an address by Chair. man Anderson of the annexation leagu, in which he says:
 Panama was needed in advancing a financial scheme, and the momen those people declared their independ ence from Columbia, a United State man of war was in the harbor, and tn, president of the United States was tn ! first to promptly recognize Panama a. Y 9 free state, while we men of your owI race. with iron in our blood, the sam, as you, have been praying for justic for four years without effect and i the time should come when that iroI s gets too hot, and cooler counsel will no s prevail. when bloodshed will be inevit ahle fn1 what these nannle claim tn h