The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

body supposed 1t would be Sd long or
 the road. At this writing Cuba is ir later Cuba will be a State of the Amer ican union. There is nothing else to come of it. Cuba Is our ward. and Is not yet come to years of discretion doubtful If Cuba would learn to be dis erect in thousand years: and hence
 1t is inevitable that the guardian shall find excuse to interfere and take ths estate with view to conserving 1t. A regiment or two on dry land and q cruiser or two on the water will do the
 soon follow. and Cuba will get from the Saxon what the Latin cannot give
 her--a stable government. That Is
 ceming. and the sooner # is accom-, 2;
 and unconcerned.
 There have been four extensive col
 onizers-the English, the Dutch. the
 have succeeded according to the meas
 ure of justice they have employed. or
 failed according to the measure of un-
 righteousness they have practiced. The from the leading colonizer of the world
 she is now shorn of every possession
 in either Ind. and all because her rule
 was tyranny rather than liberty, spoiia, tion rather than security France did
 much better: but the French were
 more polite than just, and that Is how
 1t came that Give prevailed over Du-
 pleix and France lost the East She got into the good graces of the heathen
 the world round: but on pay day. in
 stead of coming down with the coin, she got into the habit of rendering q Your Engiishman was Immensely ill hammered, abrupt, gruff, and apt as not gave a cuff and a kick: but on pay day he was there with the cash and discharged every obligation to the ut most farthing. and that made England the greatest and most successful col onizer the world ever saw, though the Dutch are little inferior @ to r'1antsd nim sd colony there were sown the seeds of liberty; wherever Spain made col ony there were planted the seeds or Seeds of liberty produced order. while in Cuba the seeds of oppression brought forth revolution.
 Another thinE-and an important factor in the equation-the English pre- served their race purity. and so maintained their race superiority, and that contributed immensely to their their blood by amalgamation with an inferior. and so licensed vice and shamed virtue
 sDaInI What ,sh.; history gle5i0Sss ssss os power, of wealth, of liberty. of let ters, of art less than four centuries ago, she got to be the sick man of Vest ern Europe even when her name was Richelieu and of Cromwell. She dom mated the splendid sixteenth century. and Charles V was the first person ality of a period that knew Francis I, Henry vIIf, Julius II. Leox x, soly- man the Magnificent. William the Si : lent. the Constable Bourborn, Cardinal wolsey and Martin Luther. spain fand developed Shakespeare. When Charles abdicated his crown, the sun never set on his dominions. At Le- Pnto Spain saved the the c50ss Sses iro% Merte at Tours ages earlier. Out of the As turias came that immortal and invin- cible principle that taxes must pc lald of the reaim-that fundamental truth fhaf gives value and vitality to the liberty you and I enjoy this moment in free America
 Perhaps it was enough for one na- tion to achieve to produce and seno forth the germ of republican govern ment. It was more than pagan Greece or pagan Rome .snsa gave os tG peadinr %hn church of the Protestant faI,h that man is immortal till his work is finished but when It is finished he shall die. wndn Possibly snoiy bad m taught the peoples of Western Europe the vital principle of liberty. 1t seems that her mission as a great power what splendid. an ostentatious' ab- dication of the primacy 1t was! The France of Richelieu and the England of Cromwell dreaded her; the France of Berwick and Vendome. the England of Marlborough and Petersborough, the Austria of Eugene, respected ner and flattered her. She gave to Ma poleon the blow on land as fatal as that Nelson dealt him on sea.
 Shall Spain have renaissance? use the word with hesitancy and mis- giving. A certain United States Sena- tor has lately levied contribution on 1t that the artificers or our language doubt if 1t can be found in Addison, though Burke knew it. who knew everything. I'll bet neither John Mar shall nor Daniel Webster ever uttered it in public.
 But I venture to predict, as cer- tainly hope, the renaissance of Spain will come, and that speedily and splen- didly.
 Cuba is the finest of all the posses sions Spain planted in the western Containing, with contig- in area, 1t is the sentinel that stands guard over the Gulf of Mexico. It has great variety of soil and much versa it it is richly endowed, and they are yet almost virgin. The forests are abun- dant in valuable woods and extensive | In area There Is no other territory on | the globe of like extent capable of more enormous production.
 But the republic we have set up down | there, instead of raising sugar. tobacco, | indigo, tropic fruits and garden veg | etables, which can be produced with | prolific abundance; instead of getting | the limitless wealth out of the mine | and gathering the enormous wealth of | fha forest must needs n raise 1 that hell that among the peoples of | Latin America, Is thought patriotism, | and that strangers call revolution. | Thus Cuba is little else than Cuba was | under Spain. The present insurrection | will be put down, doubtless, but 1t | will not stay put down. and by and |