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ceived their bounty pay out of the
money raised by bond issue. This.
however, does not satisfy; them. They
want office, almost to a man, and one
Of their causes for uprising is the fact
that under the. Palma government they
cannot get office. I5
Your typical Cuban is a politician.
pure and simple resolute conserva-
tive in office; q sleepless agitator out
Of office. There are many cultivated.
intelligent and patriotic Cubans who
medicine and, letters, and these are
with virtual unanimity on the side Of
organized society. But, after all, the
capitalists, merchants, landowners.
planters and manufacturers constitute
a helpless minority, even with the pro-
fessional and the office holding Cubans
thrown in. They cannot prevent the
burning Of plantations, the destruction
of railways and telegraph lines, the
paralysis Of civilization generally. Nor
will the resources Of the island enable
the government to employ the discon-
tented "outs,'.'= and SO enlist them IN
dilemma resides in her populations
turbulent and :incendiary majority, who
insist on getting paid in some shape
for permittingsa regime Of progress and
civilization. -
War Would Avail Little. 4
How such a people are to be per-
suaded to earn their own living IS q
question that both Taft and Bacon will
struggle with while they are in Havana.
and which they will undoubtedly bring
back to Washington unanswered. Ihere
will no doubt be receptions and ban
crooah KING INT
after the two secretaries have sailed
for him, and the islAnd is once more
left to Itself, what then9 ' IL =
Fleets and guHboats cannot trepress
the peculiar style of rebellion that pre-
wallis in Cuba. # fleets and armies
ouered the island long ago. vii!
! avail nothing to shell the CITIES and
the coast towns, when the. TROUBLE IS IN
the mountain Businesses, where sbands OF
from twenty to forty rendezvous and
descend to the plains to rob, murder
! and burn. The arabic lands of Cuoa
I liz. almost entirely, within: easy reach
Of theahills. &\>.s rs
! weyler Has Laugh. =.
! The following paragraph from the
New York Sun will be interesting in
this connection: : IT, -
ut pleased the Americans some
years ago to visit their sneers and az
nunciations upon the Spanish captain
general, Weyler. They laughed shlf
7trochas, mathematical his eoncen
trado policy, and held him up TO- ex
Nevertheless, he was slowly but surely
breaking down the bandit system of tht
insurrectos and as surely exter1ninat
ing the bandits themselves. During tn
latter half Of 1897 Cuba was visitet
by at least two, citizens Of the United
;. Estates who, after personal investiga
!: ton in the interior, reported to: MI
!; MCKINLEY their fixed belief that the SO
:, called !war.5of liberation was nothing
I! more than. a struggle between soc1a
order and professional brigandage-.'
struggle which would inevitably end il
the Triumph of civilization within Z
j very few months Neither knew OF tn
others mission, yet they made ldentica
WHO went to Santiago. in June, 1895
would have been prepared for d1s1llu
sion if they had overheard those tW
revelations in President Mckinley
q private sitting room at the Whit hit
'e Like Old Rebellions.
" uNow, the most bitter and incurabl
cynic must be entirely content wit
i the spectacle of his excellency, Do
Tomas Estrada Palma,> playing vlctil
in the very melodrama whichGhe hin
self exploited at the Expense Of We1
Ter nine years or: SO ago. Audit iss
!, curious coincidence that the methoe
J employed against him to-day are fattf
full repetitions of the methods he il
spired from the luxurious quarters
the revolutionary junta in Washing
ton. More than that, neither the pc
! sonnet nor the grievance, nor the o.
:, iect. of the present uprising differs ]
any essential respect from it's predece
, sor.' ..,. &,
Verify, the times have changed; Q
= rather, is it the American point g
: viewg The prospect for permaner
:, Cuban independence has, Of cours
been materially weakened by the pre-
!. ent uprising, and just what Taft an
. Bacon will be able to do that will owe
!, come the chronic ineffciency and d
:. tachment of the Cuban people,, the
! lack of public spirit, their constit'
tional tendency to. insure ction, is OF
4 of the enigmas Of the situation: o,
!, relation to Cuba is not what it ~:
q before this instruction began, and 81
shall hear good deal more il col
gress and elsewhere, in the future tina
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