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Show NOT MUCH. Senator Beveridge is a very bright man, but he lacks that on? trait which was predominant in George Washington that is level-headedness. Discussing the Cuban question, he thinks tha 50.000 American soldiers will have to be sent to Cuba for one year "to root out that brigandage, which for decades had so firm a hold on Cuban soil," and he intimates very pronouncedly that if the American flag goes to Cuba the traditional doctrine will prevail, pre-vail, that where the flag has been once hoisted we can never haul it down. That is all right, except that no 50,000 American soldiers are needed in Cuba, and it looks, now, as though not one would ever be needed. AVhile there are a good many brigands in Cuba, a great many men who prefer raising a rebellion to raising a crop of bananas; they have no desire to go up against United States soldiers in war; neither has our country coun-try any desire to have the flag raised there and never hauled down. The Cuban Hag is still up; it will remain re-main up and things will be adjusted, in our judgment, judg-ment, before Congress meets in December. |