The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-14

G6U. LeOllol u WOou Ile1oO SOoN
in Cuba when he administered
the affairs of that Island. There
is a growing feeling that we may
have to go down there again to
straighten matters out. There is
also a feeling that the Island
was left to its own devices too
soon for its own good and that
aside from the orgy of sugar
profits that the country was the
most prosperous under Gen.
Wood and was making steady
progress toward economic indie
pendence. Wilbur Forrest, writ
ing for the New York Tribune,
takes the stand that this country
has not yet fulfilled its whole
responsibility to the republic.
He says:
81 am informed from numer-
Gus sources-both from Cubans
themselves and disinterested
foreign observers of long resi-
dence in the island-that it may
be conservatively estimated that
fifty per cent of intelligent nom
political Cubans are ready again
to accept absolute American
supervision of their govern
mental affairs, and that nearly
one hundred per cent would well
come this if Leonard Wood were
the man appointed to take the
helm.
Wood is the idol of Cuba.
Everywhere the election embryo
lilo of financial muddle is talked,
the opinion is openly and frank
ly expressed that Cuba's present
embarrassment could not have
been possible under Leonard
Wood. The fairness and honesty
with which he ruled Cuba for so
many years are Landed in con-
trast to the traditional faults of
tropic politics, which have
brought to Cuba a seething polit-
ical intrigue, financial irresponsi-
bility, speculation, inflated values
and political and economic
chaos" The difference between
the Saxon and the Latin is that
the former knows about how far
it is safe to go and sets a limit,
but the Latin usually runs wild.
Our post war difficulties are as
nothing compared with Europe.
France is beginning to take ener-
getic measures to round up all
undesirable foreigners, who have
invaded that country since the
war. Paris alone has 100000 |
foreigners who have registered |
and these are more or less desir-
able but there are thousands
more, who have fled their own
countries, who do not register |
and who live in filthy novels and |
who are a menace to the city
and the state. 1t is these which
that country wishes to redis-
tribute to their respective coun-
tries.
According to the United States
Bureau of Standards, 90 cents out
of every dollar of Uncle Sans
money this year will go for war,
past, present or, to come, one
cent goes for public health and
education. Well, we certainly
have to pay for our past wars as
the debt was knowingly incurred.
Wars to come! May their shad-
ows fade away.
D'Annunzio has taken his cur
tain call and retires rather grace
fully from the political stage.
He loves the spot light and for
sixteen months he has been the
whole thing at Fiume. Wonder
where the soldier-poet will break
out next for it is not his nature
to be a shy and shrinking flower.
Coffee costs the people of the
United States more than $1,000
600 a day and some doctors saw
it is bad for folk. Wonder when
the move to prohibit its use will
come. 1t is said that Tobacco is
next on the anti's list so prob
ably coffee will have to wait for
some time.
Do you remember who said
that treaties were but a "scrap
Of paper'7 Well, he's dead. DIR.
Bethmann-Hollweg will be for
gotten long before his famous or
Infamous remark ceases to be
remembered.