The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-04

that there was no power to act on hi
resignation, and the Government
came to a halt. In accordance witt
the so-called Platt amendment, which
was embodied in the constitution O
Cuba, I ~tnereupon proclaimed a pro
claimed a provisional government
for the island, the Secretary of Wa
acting as provisional governor unit
he could be replaced by Mr.. Masoon
the late Minister to Panama and go,
ernor of the Canal Zone on the Is
thmus; troops we're SEN to support
them and to relieve the Navy, the
expedition being handled wifa most
satisfactory speed and efficiency
The insurgents chiefs immediately
agreed that their troops should lay
down their arms and disband; and
the agreement was carried out. The
provisional government has left the
personnel of the old government and
the old laws so far as might be, un
changed and will thus administer the
island for a few months until tran.
quillity can be restored, a new cleo
ton properly held, and a new govern
ment ~inauguated. Peace has come in
the island; and the harvesting of the
ugar cane crop the great crop of the
island, is about to proceed.
When the election has been neld
and the new government
in peaceful and orderly fashion the
provisional government will come to
an end. l take this opportunity of
expressing upon behalf of the Ameri-
can people, with all possible solem-
nifty , our most earnest hope that
the people of Cuba will realize the
imperative need of preserving JUS
tice n keeping order in the Island
The United States wishes nothing
of Cuba except that it shall prosper
morally and materially, and wishes
nothing of the Cubans save that they
be able to preserve order among
themselves and therefore to preserve
their independence. SH the elections
a farce, and if the insurrec-
tionary habit becomes confirmed in
the Island, it is absolutely out Of
the question that the island should
independent; and the init
ed States which has assumed the
before the civilized world
for Cuba's career as a nation, would
again rave to intervene and to see
that the government was managed
in such orderly fashion as to secure
the safety of life and property. The
path to be trodden by those who ex-
ercise self-government is always
and we should have every char
ity and patience VITA the Cubans as
they tread this difficult path. 1 have
the utmost sympathy with, and re-
for, them; but 1 most earnestly
adjure them solemnly to weigh their
responsibilities and to see that when
their new government is started it
shall run smoothly, and with freedom
from fafrant denial of right on the
one hand, and from insurrectionary
disturbances on the other.
Panama Trip.
I have just returned from a trip
to Panama and shall report t o you at
length later on the whole subject of
tle Panama Canal.
The Army and Navy.
I do not ask that we continue to
increase our Navy. I ask merely that
it be maintained at it's present
strength; and this a be done only
if we replace the obsolete and out
worn ships by new and good ones,
the equals of any afioat in any navy,
stop building ships for one year
means that for that year the Navy
goes back instead of forward. The
old battle ship Texas, for instance
would now be of little service in g
stand-up fight with a powerful ad
versary. The old double-turret monl
tors have outworn their usefulness