Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-28
MORE TROUBLE AHEAD FOR
UNCLE SAN.

Who got the better IN the war be-
tween Spain and the United States?
Spain. Of course. was defeated, SO far
as the display of naval and military
strength is concerned, but who really
secured the greater benefits from the
struggle?
Many insist, and their claims seem
well based, that Spain emerged from
the struggle in vastly improved con
dition. 1t got rid OF its navy, it IS
true, but that was largely obsolete,
and long before the present time
would have been entirely So 1t has
been saved the enormous expense of
its maintenance ever since. Its armed
forces in its island possessions Of
the Atlantic and the Pacific, too, were
ganquished, but that relieved the home
government of the tremendous waste
Of money involved in the holding Of
the Philippines and Cuba and Porto
Rico. Its war establishment has ac-
cordingly been greatly reduced as an
item of expense.
In addition Spain got $4,000, 900 in
gold from the United States for its
claims 20 the Philippines.
What did Uncle Sam get and what
las he now got? He got the glory of
victory over third rate power. He
expended several hundred millions Of
dollars, much of Which, was shame
July wasted. he paid out the solid
cash to requite SPANS claims, and he
has been turning loose money liber-
lily ever since in the Philippines. IN
addition he has put himself in the po-
sition of being forced, in the event OF
var, to defend possessions many
thousands of miles away from home,
and the necessity of keeping a small
standing army there to suppress ma
tive instructions. The claim is made
that the Philippines have already cost
several hundreds of millions of dol
lars since the war ended. What they
raay hereafter cost in treasure and
blood no one can tell.
Now comes Cuba, with the promise
of more trouble there and the likeli-
hood of its annexation, with conse-
quent trouble on a continuous scale
in holding down the half breeds, ne
groes and other malcontents OF that
long disturbed isle A dispatch from
Washington says:
Troops of the United States army
are in readiness to he rushed 20
Cuba TO maintain TCce and protect
American and othe' foreign interests.
Officials of-the War Department look
for crisis in the affairs of the Island
Republic by February, and, possibly.
within the next six weeks.
The last time, 1906, that the United
States interviewed in Cuba, the Presi-
dent OF the United States, Theodore
Roosevelt, and the Secretary of War,
William H. Taft, declared that if this
country was again called in to settle
disputes between factions of the Gu
ban Government and maintain peace
throughout the island, the Stars and
I;Stripes would remain there.
When Secretary of War Dickinson
and Brigadier General Clarence Ed
| wards, Chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs, of the War Department, visit
ed Cuba, in November last, they were
startled and amazed by the disrupted
and corrupt conditions which they
found existing there.
1T was upon the strength of thier
report and the reports of John B.
Jackson, Minister to Cuba, to the State
Department that the Administration
deemed it advisable to have troops and
munitions of war in readiness for i'm
mediate use
Leading officers of the army do not
believe that the American flag can be
planted in Cuba without some, if not
great, bloodshed.
| According to reports in the War and
State Departments, it has been the
corrupt practices" of the United
States protege President in Cuba
Jose Miguel Gomez, that has led t.
Cuba's undofng. These reports state
that Gomez has received no less thar
100000 for examining measures
through the Cuban Legislature fol
the benefit of special interests.
/, The United States got rid of Spain
on this hemisphere, it eliminated vel
| low fever, for the time being, any
way, and it redeemed its pledge that i
was not engaging in the war to graI
the Spanish possessions in the Yves
, Indies. As an offset it has accumulat
ed expenses and troubles. Spain go
the better side of the ledger account