| Show UNCLE SAM IS BOSS CUBANS HAVE discovered THAT HE HD WILL CONTROL there will be ba no looting of 01 cuban towns nor will cubans control those towns at the present new york july 0 i A special to tile the times front from washington says the administration la Is now very well falls ned fled with the action ot of congress in passing the declaration of 0 war which refused to lecog nizo the elie government of 0 cuba when the resolution u wai as under consideration the friends of 0 the le public made support 0 of tile the recognition a very urgent condition some of OL them insisting that to declaim independence without recognition of 0 the hie republic would mould be an ail empty friendship to extend to the insurgents even the men mho then advocated recognition as ai e believed to have become convinced tint th a K t would mould halo haie been a serious mistake to have undertaken thit as soon as 03 cuban territory was captured it mas has to be turned over to the care ot of the cubans cubar cuban help hell ot of the united states troops has been acknowledged repeatedly but tile the recent reports flout the camp at santiago and neighborhood have in some measure impaired confluence in tile the cubans and their fitness to lo assume tile the responsibilities ot of government even in santiago the administration does not accept without question tion the fragmentary reports concerning the cubans that have come to tile war and navy departments but there Is 18 so much testimony that Is disquieting that the president ident Is disposed to be SPOcia specially lly thankful that the congress did not impose upon him the duty ot of nir turn lins sig over cuba as fast us subdued by tile tho united states to the unhampered control of the hie cuban soldiers and citizens the cubans at santiago seem to have anticipated the presidents dents proclamation when they selected gen demetrius castillo Cas lillo to be gov governor einor ot of santiago as soon as the city should bo be captured there was no consultation with the commander general of tho the united states forces before tills this was done there was no consultation of 0 the laople of santiago when castillo Cas lillo was chosen to lule jule over it after spain hal had yielded control there mas w as no to announcement no by castillo Cas lillo as all to what hat his purposes mould bo ba when lie he was allowed to assume the responsibility and privileges of governor the reports of today setting forth that some ill feeling has developed loy eloped among the cubans which may yet re rc i su suit it lu ill resistance to tile the united st stales ate 11 forces by cubans exactly support ill tho expectation of 0 a member of jthn cabinet 11 who hd spoke of kf the prospect in cuba A state department officer haa bas also 1 expressed the fear plat that before conff ong the united states sates will mill occupy about the ilia same attitude toward the cubans that spain has maintained I 1 for tile tiie lost last I 1 three yen years 7 tho the cubans a are a lather expected to develops dev elope strong opposition to tho the sentiments expressed in president mckin mckin leys proclamation setting forth what la Is expected to be done by the united states in capturing provinces in fit cuba something savage in the cuban uban mind made evident by tile the looting or 0 ri rt cnney caney nad and siboney as soon as the opportunity port unity occurred desired to find expression in looting santiago already looted by tile the soldiers of spain tile the Preg president ident does doe not propose that any cuban city shell be looted by the troops of the united states stales or their allies the first effort Is to be to restore as fully as possible the tha opportunity 0 o all residents to resume their customary avocations do be they cubans or spanish they are arc to hane hae a chance to take up the vocations dropped when war com compelled the suspension sion of business then the city Is to be kept cleill clean neither cuban nor spaniard can be dc depended upon to do this the cubans might as well troll make up their minds to site show that they at are fit to govern before they can expect to be trusted to govern the proclamation of the president ident does not make any difference between the olives natives of cubi cub and of the peninsula the spaniards will ill not be permitted to butcher or 0 r to persecute the cubans the cubans cuban s V fil be prevented from wreaking breaking wre aking their vengeance upon their former persecutors per tors this may disappoint hie elie men who to expected to dailve every spaniard from cuba the war by the elie visited united states said a member 0 of the administration 1 I 1 against the government of spain ani and to free cuba from its misrule I 1 it I 1 1 la not t against tile the people of cuba whether spanish or cuban or to set up cuban misrule unit and the cubans me may Y as aa well make inake up their minds that the else administration m will ill adhere to the polley policy of fair treatment to all clams classes 0 L tho the population that surrender to abe the forces of the united states there la is great that when the friends ot ct cuba in elie united states have opportunity to communicate with the leaders in cubi cuba they will admonish thorn them that wisdom and a good hope in the future e of the island will demand that tile suggestions gest ions carried in the proclamation be heeded beedee the president will not stand beside men who lie seek an a opportunity to revenue revenge themselves at tile expense of tile the SPam spaniards lards for th the 0 cru cities suffered buttered by cuba tor for many years tho the people ot of the cities and towns the people uh who a are arc interested in property will it if they are in sut sur mcdent numbers num bera hold the mantel municipal p at control and it if they exercise exer else it prop properly er mill bill be perm permitted lied to do so there will be no forcible wresting of 0 power from those who by numbers are entitled to hold it and in I 1 moderation n 0 aeration de ration use I 1 it I 1 and there will be n no 0 forcing upon the majority the administration of the courts and civil pom powers era by men m whose hose only title to it Is that they fought with mith gomez or with garet barcla a there has been no ds disposition position on the part of the united states civil or military officials at any time to disregard the cubans or to belittle their assistance to the best of their little abille ability Y it is admitted they have rendered service at times very useful at no time in however has the administration been been disposed to assent to the ali proposition that insurgents in cuba had bad proved abill ability 11 to assume aasuma all the functions of government that tile the spanish are expected to yield should tho the cubans by the mistaken advice ot of theft headers assume so BO hostile an attitude tol toward laird the united states as to make it necessary to treat them as ellent enemies les tile ilia condition will lie be regretted but it Is will ill not make any dlf dif gienca i in the determination that spain ahill no longor govern the island members of the administration gret very deeply the information from regret santiago that tile tho cubans cub um are moro intent upon vengeance than they file aio for n 9 tranquillity under a government that will mill deal fairly m ith all people whether native or foreign they will consider it must most unfortunate it the leaders of the cuban party do not see nee that the lle prosperity and peace of tile ilia island inland depend upon acceptance of the plan of the president |
