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Show NOT BAD NEWS: It is not unwelcome news that one rebel in Cuba has determined not to lay down his arms. It will be good for the island if he makes a fight or two, because be-cause it will give him and every other fnalcontent in Cuba the idea that it is bad work to run up against American artillery and infantry, and if they do the next rebellion will lack a few leaders, because the man in command there is very direct in his methods. meth-ods. His idea of carrying on war is to fight and to keep fighting until the enemy opposed to him, or what is left of them, take up the idea that it is not profitable business. We have not much hope for Cuba Cu-ba not for this generation, at least; not until the old race dies off, or growe so. old that it cannot make anj' more trouble, because they lack the elements oi real citizenship. They cannot tell the truth; they cannot keep an agreement; they are as treacherous as that species of rattlesnake that has no rattles, but strikes without'giving warnings. - If in a strict line of duty it is necessary to kill a few hundred of them,' the consolation will be that they, being out of the way, the efforts to make a permanent per-manent peace will be more effective. It is a difficult business to create a free State in a country M-here vagabonds can live on the natural fruit and game of the country, and where the wearing wear-ing of clothing is not considered essential to the welfare of polite society. Freedom ' was intended for lands where, men have to work to live, for there is jiothing that breeds rebellion and all the dark passions pas-sions of the human heart like idleness. |