The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30

past, ike out expansions toward the Pa
CHIC were certain before they were ac-
complished And when the American
nag is once more lifted over Cuba it
viii never be lowered again. That
Cuba should be American is the high
est example of manifest destiny in his
tory. Geography makes her American
she is geographically a part of Flor
ida. Her position in the gulf makes
her American-she commands it's en-
trance and the approaches to the Mis-
sissippfs mouth and all our southern
harbors. The natural currents of trade
make her American-she is the natural
market place of our products and we
are the natural purchasers of her prod
ucts. Political gravitation makes her
American-no island SO small ever
maintained separate existence near a
country so great and government so
powerful.
American Government in Cuba.
American government of Cuba is
the traditional policy of the American
people. 1t began before the republic
was founded. The American colonists
petitioned the English king to let them
take Cuba and gave as their reasons
the very same causes that have in
spired American statesmen to desire
NAAN liltii6 cNcI SlIlCe, the very
same causes that are operating today.
When political parties were formed and
political platforms began to be written.
the policy OF American government
over Cuba expressed itself i'm all polit-
ical creeds. All American statesmen
whose names survive, no matter to
what party they belong, down almost
to the civil war, held this consumma-
ton as one of their dearest dreams.
Clay was for it, Cass was for It. Web
ster was for it; and only the mighty
question of slavery, eliminating in the
red years of the civil war stopped the
intensifying spirit of the American
people, which, but for those dreaded
events, would long since have accom-
plished that purpose.
Pledge Was Made.
But we have promised her indepen-
dence, and that pledge we must fulfill.
We must let events correct our folly.
A higher wisdom than our own must
erase our mistakes and rewrite the
Teller amendment on which our pledge
of Independence is based and from
which all present and future trouble
and confusion flows and will flow But
we must accept the decree of those
events; we must obey the order of that
higher wisdom; and when It is clear
that Cuba is not capable of stable gov
eminent and continuous orderly liberty.
then we must act under Senator PIatt's
great statute. act promptly, fearlessly.
wisely, and, acting thus, act for the In
terests Of America. the welfare of the
Cuban people, and for the uplifting of
that law-regulated liberty which con-
stitutes our American civilization.
This time American occupation of
Cuba Will be permanent. The Ameri-
can people will stand no further tri-
fling. They have let sincere sentiment
talists play with their destiny long
enough American occupation of Cuba
and American restoration of law and
order means the shedding of American
blood; and that blood now to be given
to bring civilization back to Cuba is
the price the American people must
pay for the folly of our timid theorists
and the baseness of schemine poll
ticians who have cloaked their base
ness in the robes of a pretended sane
tity.
And now the American people will
cast these false teachers aside and
move forward, clear-eyed, stout-heart-
ed and full of faith to the doing of the
work God has been calling them to
do"