The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-10-27

ait is a personal friend of minav,
why even the writer is a personal
friend OF the presidents.
Way down in Cuba they try to do
!hings very much after the Madrid
iashlon-all but the clothes, and those
are French But in speech, in gesture.
IN awe-lnspiring ceremonial and Ain
maps, they are very much" Madrid
VI course they hated Spain, the Span
lards and everything Spanish-at least
SO they said; but they vowed that the
Cld Country had no exclusive COPY
right upon long -drawn-out salutations
and never-ending adios-es and thew
added yard or two or resonant Cas-
lillian whenever it seemed as Il = void
needed filling.
Taft Surprises Cubans.
And so they were prepared to hedoe
Governor-General Magoon around
with beautiful phrases But Mr.. Ma
goon was business man and he used
business language. He said what he
meant and meant what he said. So
the genteel Cubans were shocked.
Then came time when the Ameri-
can Secretary of War had an urgent
call to Havana He came in a war
ship, landed with a smile and said
"Hello? with such force to the first
delegation of patriots to call upon him
at the palace that some of them won.
dered if the Maine had re-exploded
And just then Mr. Taft got down to
sub-soil. He told the Cubans a few
things they knew and more they did
not Some of his words were harsh
and the big clenched hand of the big
War Secretary seemed ready to back
up his English. The smile though,
was ever ready to break forth; and at
the end of the conference it did actu-
ally play upon the face of each indi-
vldual Cuban there; and when the
good-bys were said the patriots filed
out OF the palace knowing that a
TREND, a real friend of their country's,
had told them few unpleasant truths,
given them to understand that a
spanking might be their portion if
they were not good, and had then
smiled an adieu with as much warmth
IN 1t as Weyler's wrath used to have.
Filipinos Also Jared.
| was in the Philippines when Mr..
TAFT came there to superintend things
for Uncle Sam. Conditions were most
unsatisfactory on all hands, and ma
tive leaders from Dagupan to Ilo-ilo
were vowing vengeance upon the new
administration
Aguinaldo passed the word that
second Weyler had come to the archi-
pelago, the only difference being that
the second, Yankee, was unnessari-
ly worse than the first. 1t will be re-
membered that Weyler was captain
general in the Philippines before h
received his commission to extermi-
nate the Cubans.
But it was not long till all this was
changed. The new ruler of the islands
wore no uniform and carried no sword.
He was not hedged about with bayo-
nets, but went among the people. He
held no midnight councils for the
weighing of traitors tales nor for the
entrapping of bona fde native leaders.
Smiling Wins Filipinos.
Instead, he sent for the leading pat
riotic and intellectual men of the is
lands, listened to their woes, told them
what they and their people might ex-
pect from the Washington government
and smiled.
The smile caught the Filipinos. 1t
went in all directions from Manila,
and it brought many and many an am
bassador to the seat of immediate gov
eminent, to the council chamber of
Mr. Taft There the real thing, the
thing about which they had heard
and regarding which most of them
were loath to believe, smile from a
governor general, Madre de Dios!-
was bestowed upon them and they
were we'll on the road to thinking that
perhaps after all the Americans did
not intend to garrote the whole ma
ton behind the walls of Blibid
1t was the writers privilege to hold
a volunteer commission in the Army
at that time and for more than a year
to see Mr.. Taft almost daily On sew
eral occasions had brief interviews
with him representing as was
New York paper), and he always APP
peared to me the most cheerfully OPP
timistic man in all creation,
when these poor people realize
what we mean to do for them" he
said one day, they will link MeKin
ley's name with Jose Rizars" DR..
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