The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-13
Cuba Wants Us to Stay.

Cuba Wants Us to Stay.
There is a significant unanimity in
the appeals by the big Havana news-
papers for the United States to re-
main in Cuba as long as practicable.
AS Governor Magoon has promised to
name a day for the elections as soon
as the full returns of the census are
had, many of the Cubans are
alarmed at the prospect that United
states may 500 step out and render
possible a repetition of the Palma
fiasco. This subject has a far larger
interest for the Cubans than it has
for us.
Precipitation in. abandoning Caba
will be harmful" says La Lucha,
one of havana's most prominent
journals. That paper points out that
the first elections in the island must
be for municipal officers, and it say:
that if city government works vel
it may then be safe to have elections
declares that the time for the choice
of a president is not in sight. 1t
urges Governor Magoon, after a con-
gress gets in working order, to ap-
point a cabinet and to- retain his place
at the head of the Cuban govern
ment until all the fractional rivalries
in the island die out. La Discussion
and Ell Diario de la Marine, other
conspicuous Havana newspapers, give
similar advlce. The last named pa
per tells the American governor that
even against the will of President
Roosevelt, he will have to remain in
Cuba much longer than anybody in
the united States expected when the
intervention took place in Septem-
Der, 1906.
This opinion of sane observers on
the ground comedies. with predictions
which have been freely made in the
United States from time to time, but
which our government dislikes.
Europe was quicker than the United
States to grasp the fact that self
government in Cuba would be a fail
ure. and that we would, in the in
terest of the Cubans and of civiliza-
ton, be compelled not only to step
into Cuba to maintain order, but te
stay in. This is the view which is
taken by all the opponents of the
solid business interests of the islam;
native as well as foreign. A bill for
the annexation OF Cuba is likely to
be introduced before the close of the
approaching session OF congress at
Neutrality-suspicious. Democrat.
Objects to a "Governors' Trust"
An alarm has been sounded by a
southern democratic paper, the Ma
con (Ga.) Telegraph, on the recent
meeting of the governors of Georgia,
Alabama and North Carolina. The
conference, it is remarked, was an
extraordinary affair, especially for
officials who are so sensitive about
the distinctive functions and rights
of each state. A concert of COVER
nors, in the Georgia papers view.
is an assault on state rights, and &C
the same time tends to nullify the
national constitution, forming, in
fact, the first step toward rebellion.
The governors met, according to their
own statement, to agree on a line of
policy touching the railroads Of the
three states. It is said they decided
that the railroad companies shall
not be allowed to stop the operation
Of state laws, however. unconstitu-
tional they may be, by a resort to the
judiciary until the new state laws
regulating railroads have had a trial.
IF this be true" says the Macon
Telegraph, "then the three governors
have entered into a compact to do
an illegal thing and to nullify the
constitution Of the United States"
The Galveston News remarks that
the three governors have Just as
much right to say that an individual
shall not be permitted to plead that
an act of a legislature composed
largely Of jackasses is unconstitu-
tional as they have to deny such priv
tleges to a corporation. Their CON
tention is preposterous-the more SO
because they pretend to be state
rights democrats and stand for the
basic principle Of guaranteeing to
every citizen the right to be heard
before he is condemned to pay a
penalty" The three governors who
seem to have started out to form a
new confederation Of their own will
notice that the echo in the south is
emphaticaNy against their action
Globe Democrat.
A Good Showing.
Reports of the state bank examl-
ner, and the national banks doing.