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The Commoner.
Tl C3orinOrl ' th mIn8terlal zle was wonderfully eloquent
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THK COMMONER. Lincoln, Neb
During the trouble In Cuba the Connecticut
factories have been comneilert in -arnvir nvowima
fo rnonnnil - ili. ji-i - it
w "oi'u w m uuiuauu ior pure Jttavana
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Reform, thy name is popycock!" shouts the
Washington Post Wo are inclined to admit that
the Post correctly describes the kind of reform
it advocates.
It seems that the first president of Cuba
merely managed to establish a sort of -step-fatherly
relationship with the-future history of
the young republic.
Having wrecked the bank and squandered
a half million of its depositors' money, Banker
Stensland is now going to do all he can to help
straighten, things out. .
The real independent in politics is never a
neutral.
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Speaker Cannon is making a little tour of the
western states, but he is keeping" in mighty close
communication with trusted lieutenants who are
watching Samuel Gompers.
In the New Hampshire republican convention
more votes than there were delegates were cast.
Can it be possible that this explains the repub
lican majority In that state?
..The flea that made Milwaukee furious' is re- ,,? New York republican convention man
iceiving an undue amount of advertising. ' l ; l'aSed''to get along -very well without 'the delicate
- " ' ' yerum"fa' manipulation of Senator Piatt and the carefully
icucttiaeu wnucisms or senator Depew.
Banker Stensland h? just now filled, with the
,:y.usual amount , of .f 'morning after" regret.
"' v, President Tuttle of the Boston & Maine con- '
"i .tinuec 1 wear New Hampshire on his watch
' fob.
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1 ' t A Tennessee man shot' into a car ofdyna-
XS1? "' a joke." Ho didn't "have time to
"''.'laugh.
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yr,' Banker Stensland can speak six languages,
'd,?d doubtless he Is doing a 'lot of thinking Tin
i ,troblith thl8 ,tarif revision by its
friends" is that the friends always revise it with
& JcLCj8CIQW
The little game of recrimination going on
between Stensland and Hering is interesting- only
'because the participants are just mad enough
to toll the truth, each about the other.
A southern judge says It is the duty of every
husband to kiss his wife upon returning homo.
The husband who kisses his wife from a sense
of duty has a whole lot to learn about husbandly
affection.
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The simple truth is," remarks the. Kansas
City Journal, "that the salary of a United States
B?n?.t0r if ,n,ot ent to defray the expenses
of bis official station." That may be true. If it
is, what is the matter with reducing the expenses
of his "official station?"
"Shall we take Cuba?" asks the Dubuoue
Telegraph. Will the tobacco and sugar trusts
please answer?
Springfield, Ohio, is doubtless terribly wroucht
IMS SLStszr perpetraua a e
, 2fii ra,lroad managers believe that
the railroad tariff sheets should also be revised
by their beneficiaries. f revisea
,.Great Britain has just launched the longest
cruiser in the world. We know where short ? work
can be made of it if necessity impels.
i h0. numerou fatalities in the. prize rin of
late leads to the hope that this sort of "sport"
will soon settle itself by annihilation.
Speaker Cannon refuses to talk about th
Cuban situation. "Uncle Joe's" eSglotSS ?s Juu
sore from the recent impact of his toot
It is quite natural for Mr. Rockefeller to snend
his eisuro time on the golf links. He has blen
putting the public in a hole for quite a while.
The New York republican state convention
managed to wiggle along without the vocal as
sistance of either of New York's senators
thatW wnfeat"r? ?f the Cuban insurrection
that lias been overlooked is the possible rtmnv
rection of the Mole St. Nicholas pCarlcator
Thirteen ministers played a golfi'tburnov in
Connecticut recently. The silence fichfSoweS
Shall the democratic party die?" plaintively
queries the New York World. A party that has
survived both the support and the opposition of
the New York World seems to be well in line
for the longevity record.
It is presumed that Senators' Aldrich, Piatt,
Depew, Penrose and others like them are greatly
saddened by the charge that any senator should
so far forget himself as to represent any corpor
ation in a senatorial capacity.
Governor Alva Adams has been nominated for
governor by the democrats of Colorado. The re
publican gang would do well to at once begin
SS32? P,Jt8JJ?10mei,-to 8teal tne electton for
tifying itself with a scheme to thwart the will
of the people in some other way in case they
rail to make good their efforts at stealing.
WHO WOULD UNDO THE WORK?
The United States has "intervened in CubaM
and it is now exercising sovereignty over the
island. "'Tis true 'tis pity, and pity 'Us, 'tis true."
xn ,T0Uld have beon better had the American
authorities been content to use their iXence
i ,sln8Labout a PeacejM termination of the
difficulty. To be sure Secretary Taft seemed to
do some work along this line, but apparently the
success of his efforts depended largely npon the
attitude of one .man, President iPalma. When
?fimAi)eFSisted ln hIs resignation, then, so we
are told, intervention became necessary
It may be said right here that President
Palma cut a very sorry -figure In this affair The
very fact that resignation meant intervention
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. yhould have persuaded him to retain his offl
,n, order that the difficulties might be setUed
without outside interference-while Tine Cuban
public remained intact It is true that in resiS
Si,SatalliJ!,tn,ok a severe blow at hs enemies--
iZ bwEI V6VereBt hl0whe could minister.
But when Palma accepted the presidency of the
little republic he took that place of responsibility
for better or for worse, and beyond any personal
comfort of his own, beyond any public or private
quarrels with rival statesmenbeyond any othe?
human consideration, Palma' owed his service
nl f nif C0Wa7 hiS Very IIfe t0 U1 Ite republic
which began its career in the great familv of
nations under the brightest of skies y '
? c-nnot be frgotten that many of the
people of Cuba regarded President Palma as an
Interloper at the time of his election to the pres
idency. Indeed, it was freely charged that ho
had not been fairly chosen but that Ms seTecUo
was largely brought about through United States
' ?flUf f3, I711116 Palma iad in years pas? VeS
2S? faitihfUl SerJIce to the Cuban cauw, he had
Uved so long outside of the Island that he was
, quite a stranger to the present generation. Then
when, as president, he surrounded himself with
some of the men who were conspicuous in the
SpajUsh administration, and who had therefore
made themselves obnoxious to the people of
Cuba, it is not strange that the sentiment against
the Cuban president increased.
President Palma would have done better for
?he ?TQfrd; f0r the CubaiL pePle d for
the United States of America, had he remained
at his nost even for tha ioi., .,
ing intervention, and if necessary, striving patient
ly and persistently for the selecUon by the Cuban
people of a successor, and for the salvation of
popular government among that people who may,
in perfect truth, sing with the poet: "If blood
S? Kl00 of liberty, Lord, God we have paid
. the debt!" .
So -Jar as the. people of the United tSates ' '
are concerned, they are confronted with a con
dition and not a theory in this Cuban question.
Now that the authorities have intervened, the
best thought and the highest form of patriotism
on the part of the Americai people will be neces
sary, in order that our country's good name may
not be tarnished. Public sentiment . will have
considerable to do with America's future course
in the island of Cuba. Let men of all political
parties give to the American authorities that sup
port which they have the right to expect. Let us
hold up their arms while they are restoring order
in Cuba. Then let us insist that there shall be
no .acquisition of territory, no forced acquirement
of allegience. Let us insist that the people of
Cuba shall be riven rho rvMior i,
president and building a government in order that
the Cuban republic may livein order that the
American flag may be revered among the people
of Cuba, and among all men everywhere, be
cause yesterday, today and forever, it stands for
Uti at to whicn toe fathers dedicated
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
. ??ff gmthe bIrtn of the Cuuban republic
the editor of The Commoner wrote: . J.
i 'lus s?on as General Wood ceased speak
ing the American flag on the palace was
lowered and the Cuban flag raised in its
Place amid the acclamation of the multitude.
Simultaneously with the lowering of the flag
on the palace building the flags that floated
irom the other government buildings were
hauled down and Cuban flags quickly substi
tuted for them. The crowd at the end of the
Prado raised a mighty shout when the stars
and stripes on Morro castle came down and
the single-star Cuban flag was flung to the
breeze; and yet, happy as they were, there
was a touch of sadness in their rejoicing, for
they had come to love the American flag.
A member of the commission charged with
toe changing of the flags on Morro castle
that grim fortress that had been the scene of
so much cruelty and bloodshep told me that
when the American flag was lowered the
Cuban soldiers stationed at that place rushed
forward and caught it up, saying that it must "
not be allowed to touch the groundthey
even pressed its folds to their lips. The
Americans present were deeply touched by
tbe affection displayed, and well. .they might
ue.
Let us not forget that when we lowered the
American flag on the island of Cuba, we rafperi
Ithigher than it had ever been before, and when
we brought it away wo left it enshrined in the
hearts vof a grateful people. : tn
Who- would undo the work of that day?
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