| Show CUBA EX PENSIVE EXPENSIVE it if the spanish people in general had anything to say guy to la the management of the affairs of tue government it is reasonably certain that cuba would long ago have been cast adrift and left to shape her own course as an best she could the sacrifices at which the home government has ban held and to is now b bI biasing aiding aing the island are out of all pro portion to the benefits derived except as regards a small and aristocratic class of spaniards who are made rulers and officeholders office holders but the people pay too much for these benefits the san francisco chronicle published publish ei acme figures relative to anis cuia subject since 1823 spain has had bad to lo deal with no lesis than six cuban revolutions at an aggregate cost of and a loss of lives the civil way war ol of 1868 which lasted teo ten years cost the country lives slid and it la is supposed that these wars have been carried on at the sacrifice of no lose lees than the destruction of one half of the population of the island the attitude of the united states has been different during daring these various rebellions in the be days before the great war in this country the slaveholding slave holding interest preferred to see cuba as a spanish colony with slaves rather than as an a free this influx encee our oar government as against net the revolutionists some borne of the early insurrections were we weak a Is and III advised tut but dul during ting the ten ion year re bellio bell in 1868 78 many s bal ties wece on cuban sou it ended ID a compromise with spain and with promises some of which have never been fulfilled the present uprising seems seem already to have assumed were more formidable pro port portions loas than any ot of its there are now BOW about rebels in the field their leaders are bold and experienced men who have a great deal of sympathy in this country and elsewhere they seem to bobi bable positions and to be well equipped widd iab arms arios and ammunition As time passes id inability to re order and jaw broomes more and more SpDa apparent rent creel creelman an the new york fork world correspondent who was waa expelled from row auba puba cuba by order of general weyler thinks thinka the present re bellion bellico belli oo will lead to a bru brub ab between this ibia country and spain both because the latter country is anxious for a fight and because the united states 1 honor requires revenge for the american property destroyed and the american citizens killed by spaniards we do not dot believe this his view will be generally accepted as cr 0 by diplomacy all possible differences between thin thia conn try and spain on account of cuban affalee can be arranged satisfactorily but it is quite evident that if the united states in a peaceful way could assist spain to get rid of cuba no matter how bow this would be an act of friendship to spain for which the common people in the country ultimately would reel feel everlastingly under obligation it costs the spanish people too much monty and too much blood to rule the me gem ut of the antilles Ao tillee 21 |
