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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER COMMENT. 



North, East, South and West Opinions on the Elections, Past and to Come, 



and on Annexation. 



After election for a President some 

 months hence, Cuba will have not only 

 a set of officials the validity of whose 

 titles will be above question, but she 

 will also have an established system for 

 the similarly valid and indisputable 

 choice of their successors. That is one 

 great measure of the benefit which is 

 being bestowed upon the island by the 

 American intervention. — Utica (N. Y.) 

 Herald. 



The second experiment of Cuban self- 

 government may be tried out, but the 

 prospect is it will end, as did the first, 

 in federal interference. Then, in self- 

 defense, there will be nothing left the 

 United States but an expensive indeter- 

 minate guardianship or the alternative 

 of annexation. — Atlanta Constitution. 



All who have anything at stake in the 

 island are convincedi tlh'at the instability of 

 the Cuban character will be demonstrated by 

 trouble as soon as the American forces are 

 withdrawn and they are hoping that devel- 

 opments between now( and the installation of 

 the next Cuban president will lead to per- 

 manent oocunation of the island by Ameri- 

 cr I forces. — Omaha' (Neb.) Bee. 



"Much will depend upon the attitude 

 of the newly elected Cuban president 

 whether the withdrawal will be hastened 

 or delayed and whether it shall be com- 

 plete or only partial between the elec- 

 tion and February, 1909, the date fixed 

 for leaving Cuba to its own devices once 

 more." — Mahanoy City (Pa.) Tribune. 



"The unanimous sentiment of foreign- 

 ers is in favor of the continuance of our 

 control. Nearly all investors to any ex- 

 tent are of the same mind and dread, 

 above all things, a return to power of 

 Cubans. If civil war occurs there will be 

 an interposition which will not be after- 

 wards relaxed." — Buffalo (N. Y.) News. 



There being no real issues before the re- 

 public, it is merely a question of wibo shall 

 hold the offices. No strong man has arisen 

 to fight for an independent and stable Cuba, 

 and the early withdrawal of the American 

 government after the hasty completion of a 

 large lamount of newi organic law, adds to 

 the unrest. A symptom of this is the 12 

 per cent, interest asked for money lent in 

 Havana on first-class real estate mortgHges. 

 —Nation, N. Y. 



vThe United States would gladly throw 

 Cuba upon its own responsibilities, and 

 hopes to do so at an early date. But this 

 -is— up- to Cuba, not the United States. — 

 Baltimore (Md.) American. 



It is unfortunate for Cuba that the bulk 

 of her more educated and capable popula- 

 tion has renounced its citizenship. In the 

 foreign clubs of Havana they have a saying 

 that any Cuban who can accumulate $10 

 at once becomes a citizen of the United 

 States, la large proportion of the $10 class 

 having acquired that desirable citizenship 

 about the year 1898. This leaves the elec- 

 tions and the government to excitable, un- 

 scrupulous professional politicians. — Water- 

 bury (Conn.) American. 



America's way of dealing with Cuba 

 is a fine example to the world of the 

 good faith of this republic, its people 

 and its government in all international 

 relations. Freedom was given Cuba and 

 independence promised. The promise 

 was redeemed to the letter and assur- 

 ance given by treaty that a free gov- 

 ernment would be maintained and order 

 preserved. — Pittsburg Gazette-Times. 



The little republic is rich in resources, 

 and its people should be prosperous and 

 happ3^ But there is that instability of 

 character which breeds distrust at home 

 and abroad. All who have anything at 

 stake in the island seem tO' dread the 

 idea of throwing the peoole upon their 

 own resources. — St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer 

 Press. 



The test of the islanders to conduct 

 themselves as an independent nation 

 will come after the United States has 

 relinquished control, withdrawn troops 

 and passed the government back to them. 

 ^Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



The time for temporizing with Cuba 

 has passed. The Cubans will either have 

 to show that they are capable of govern- 

 ing themselves or else submit to being 

 governed by those who know how. — 

 Omaha (Neb.) Bee. 



But how much impression do warn- 

 ings like this make upon the political 

 "generals" — white and black — and their 

 ignorant partisans? — Hartford (Conn.) 

 Courant. 



It is creditable to Cuba that the ca- 

 pacity of its people for self-government 

 should have so well appeared in the 

 elections. — Pittsburg (Pa.) Gazette- 

 Times. 



In view of the hereditary tendencies 

 of Latin-Americans, the attendance of 

 fifty per cent, of the Cuban voters at the 

 provincial and municipal elections last 

 week, so far from being cause for dis- 

 couragement, is evidence that our admin- 

 istration of the island is having a good 

 effect. — -Boston Transcript. 



