| Show NO ASSURANCE EH Our morning contemporary does not denounce General Funston as a traitor or an Aguinaldo sympathizer but it undertakes to dispute his declaration concerning our relations to Cuba and our pledges to the Cubans General Funston said If the admn istratlon had given the Filipinos the assurance of independence given to the Cubans there would have been no bloodshed If that assurance were given now hostIlIties eJUlj ease The Tribune says The administration administra-tion has glvsn no assurance as to Cuba Cu-ba It was congress that gave that assurance Of course that Is only a quibble The president fa bound by the promises of congress to tne Cubans Furthermore he signed that premise on the lth of April 188 It contains the followng decaraUons That the people of the island of Cuba are and ot right ought to be free and independents inde-pendents and that the government of the United States hereby recognizes the republic re-public of Cuba as the true and lawful government gov-ernment of that island That the United States hereby disclaims my disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty jurisdiction or control over i said Island except for the pacllication I thereof and assert Its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control ot the island to its people The presidents signature is attached to that and yet OUr neighbor 01 the purpose of discrediting the remark oC the little hero of the rhiliplHne campaign cam-paign deliberately belies its own record 1 ord and asserts that the administration administra-tion has given 0 assurance to Cuba To what depth of mendacity vuii not some people dcsce1J l carr 1 point But this is hot all In his messlge tocongress dated December 5 1898 the president repeated these otnclal declar atlons of a definite policy In relation to Cuba and added It should be our duty to assist In every way proper to build up the waste places of the island encourage the industry of the people and assist them to form a government which shall be free and independent thus realizing the best aspirations of the Cuban people And yet our Republican contemporary contempo-rary in its anxiety to make a point for ImperIalism emphatically asserts that the administration has given no assurance assur-ance as to Cuba From a glance at the record we are Inclined to believe General Funston knows more about the subject than his adversary in this controversy |
