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permanently disqualilied for looking after 

 their own affairs is a somewhat drastic 

 proceeding. Let America make it vmder- 

 stood that she will not tolerate disorder in 

 Cuba and that she intends to side with 

 and uphold the constituted government 

 whenever a revolutionary attack is threat- 

 ened against it ; let her do what she can 

 to promote Cuban prosperity by reducing 

 the tariff on Cuban exports of sugar, to- 

 bacco and fruit, and I do not think she 

 will again be compelled to intervene in 

 the affairs of the island." 



Several interesting views of the situation 

 in Cuba by European publications are given 

 in Current Literature, which says: "A 

 Cuban suspicion that Washington means 

 to exert some intluence in favor of Zayas 

 was denounced by Secretary Knox. ' The 

 United States, he said, wishes only- a fair 

 and complete expression of the will of the 

 Cuban people. The speech, if local dailies 

 are to guide us on the point, made an ex- 

 cellent impression. The European organs 

 corroborate them. Europe, in truth, has 

 paid more heed to the peregrinations of 

 Secretary Knox through the Latin-Amer- 

 ican world than most American dailies 

 have thought it w^orth while to give them. 

 He was approached by the correspondents 

 of London and Paris papers on the sub- 

 pect of the ]\Ionroe Doctrine, but they all 

 found him evasive. Disappointment is ex- 

 pressed at the failure of the American 

 statesman to outline the Washington 

 policy in Cuba more definitely. The in- 

 ference of the Paris Temps is that the 

 United States government has lingering 

 doubts of the destiny of the pearl of the 

 Antilles as a republic. The French daily 

 thinks the island will be annexed." 



"Upon one point only," says Current 

 Literature further, "does there seem to 

 exist the slightest agreement between 

 Zayas and Alenocal. Each dreads another 

 American intervention in the island. Were 

 it not for this prospect, says the London 

 Times, civil war might be raging in Cuba 

 at this moment. General Menocal is a 

 veteran of the old struggles with Spain. 

 His creed is that of the soldier and all 

 problems are to him essentially military. 

 The election of Zayas would, in the opin- 

 ion of European organs, tend to preserve 

 the land from militarv upheaval. 



"The London dailies, most of which 

 have careful local correspondents, predict 

 a close contest between Zayas and Menocal. 

 There will, in the course of the struggle, 

 the Paris Matin thinks, be much denun- 

 ciation of the United States for purely 

 political purposes. Little heed need be 

 paid to this, the French paper thinks. It 

 agrees with the London Times that Cuba, 

 thanks to the United States, is more 

 prosperous than any other Latin-American 

 region in our hemisphere . The redemp- 



tion of Cuba seems to the Paris Temps a 

 triumph of the American administrative 

 genius so great that it might w-ell be 

 studied by European powers. 



"Xone the less, according to the Paris 

 Gaulois, the island has been used by cer- 

 tain foes of this country as an object 

 lesson in Yankee imperialism. 



Of course, the United States cannot per- 

 mit disorder in Cuba. The great island 

 is altogether too near the American shore. 

 American interests have always been, even 

 in Spanish days, enormous. Millions of 

 dollars of American capital are invested 

 there. The plantations are very largely 

 owned by Americans, two of the largest 

 plantation owners being Boston business 

 men. Beside the great sugar industry, 

 which so vitally concerns this country's 

 prosperity, there is the tobacco industry, 

 the great fruit trade and the lesser, but 

 yet important, industries such as mining. 

 So the interests of the United States in 

 Cuba are vital, and an insurrection, wdiich 

 is always destructive and enervating, can 

 no more be permitted in Cuba than could 

 be permitted in one of the Gulf States. 

 Indeed, an insurrection in the whole tier 

 of Gulf States would be incipient in im- 

 portance as compared with a revolution 

 and civil w-ar in Cuba. — A'ezv England 

 Grocer, Boston, ]\Iass. 



Cuba did not give visiting Secretary 

 Knox the glad hand, says the Boston 

 Times. One editor, commenting face- 

 tiously on this fact, proffers the suggestion 

 .that the mischievous boy seldom welcomes 

 the visit of the schoolmaster at his home. 

 Cuba does not want American interference, 

 and this is all well enough, provided Cuba 

 proves that she can take care of herself. 

 She must, at least, try to live peaceably 

 with all men, else unasked for help in 

 her affairs will be provided. 



The Philadelphia (Pa.) hiquirer takes 

 a gloomy view of Cuba's finances. It says : 



"France, England and Germany all have 

 claims of one kind and another, which 

 they are pressing with a growing insist- 

 ency, and, as the Monroe Doctrine pre- 

 cludes a resort to force, they look to this 

 country for redress. 



"They are entitled to receive it. and the 

 indications are that one of these days, and 

 perhaps before very long, the United 

 States will have to do for Cuba what it 

 has already done for San Domingo. It 

 will have to undertake the administration 

 of its finances, and thus convert the pres- 

 ent theoretical protectorate into an ac- 

 tuality. 



"When it becomes apparant that bank- 

 ruptcy is impending or inevitable, one of 

 those conditions will have arisen which 

 the Piatt amendment explicitly designates 

 as justifying or demanding intervention. 



