Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-09-29
THE CUBAN ROW.

AluOuS JUOSG JnlnSS is what
this country should do with Cuba. In
the rush essential to a daily paper
some of the thoughts in the article
to which reference is made, are ex-
pressed in a crude and off-hand
fashion, but they nevertheless strike
at the root of the matter and advocate
the only solution of the problem.
The Journal article reads as fol-
lows
The insurrection down in Cuba
seems to have arisen out of dissatis-
faction because of the vote cast at the
election, where Palma was chosen to
be president and congress was elect
ed. Instead of the minority taking the
matter into court and asking for a re-
count of the ballots; instead of alleg-
ing in an application for a writ of
mandate to enable them to go behind
the returns, that Carlos y Sinola and
Hermoso de Braganza did not live in
the district in which they voted, and
that the judges in some voting dis
tricts closed the polls before several
people had the opportunity to vote,
the defeated party Immediately flew
to arms and went to shooting at peo-
pie.
Latin is not a Republican.
In this country the machinery of the
courts would have been invoked, and,
after the lower court had decided the
matter one way or another, the case
would have been appealed and both
sides would have waited while the
learned judges read what the court in
Rhode Island decided in a case of
trover and conversion and the action
of the district judge in Alaska, who
heard a case where the right to divert
water from a sluice was questioned.
There wouldn't have been any rap
id-tire guns brought into action, but
the press would have belched for,u all
sorts of dope and the honor of the
judges would have been questioned,
and the action of the state committee
in interviewing a district Judge before
the trial of the case would have been
attacked and defended until further
orders. Then the whole business
would have been forgotten in the ex.
element of the next campaign, and
everybody would have got ready to &c
to the polls and put an "X" up by the
head of his favorite ticket just the
same. Finally, after the term OF office
had expired, the courts would have de
clared that the incumbent had hel(
Office illegally, but would have de
clared his actions all right, de facto
and the man who was wrongfully KEEP
out of office would have drawn a wac
of money as salary for something he
did not do, and no one but the treas
ury would have suffered.
But down in Cuba it appears thai
they do things differently. Their no
corpuscles boil and seethe and finally
two or three of them get together ant
commence singing, Johnny Get You
Gun, and Your Sword and Your Pts
tol," and the crowd joins the chorus
and commences shooting. Part of the
national guard DESERTS and some O.
the police force quits the job and the!
all go out and hold up small trair
and read all the letters, incidentally re
imbursing themselves with any loose
currency found therein. Both sides
holler "Vive Cuba!" until further or
ders, and If not interfered with the!
burn sugar plantations, steal horse:
and occasionally fight battles" il
which as high as two or three people
are killed and wounded.
1t looks as If Secretary Taft an(
Assistant Secretary Bacon would settle
the matter by the preservation of the
integrity of the Cuban republic al
though the descendants of the dol
hntn oil hot ci1 As