| Show HASTE DUES DOES NOT HASTEN the dihe S spanish abla anla soldiers cannot get out cubah of cuba on n schedule time there was a painful proportion of miscalculation in almost every negotiation enter entered ed into regarding the cuban situation and the people realize this as events come and go how was it possible for a nation beaten down broken apart and hopelessly bankrupt to excel t the he worlds record in the th e matter of transporting passengers more than miles over the ocean her present facilities if not a cratt of any kind in her possession but what were kept going steadily without the loss lose of a ara 1 hours time loading at havana and I 1 unloading at cadiz not one half of the spanish sold soldiers lers remaining on o n cuban so soil 11 would be removed international law like any other requires no impossibilities nor can a nation especially a great and victorious nation like the united states afford to impose or expect the accomplishment of hardships which can and ought to be avoided the tact fact of the matter is some ahinga thin go regarding the cuban settlement have been overdone and others have been underdone all evincing a painful lack of consideration amr the whole case in accordance accord ahee with its ita bearings in the flush of victory we began by demanding everything that was wag in sight and a good deal that was not we utterly ignored the fact that should first of all have impressed itself upon us that an army such as that which spain then had ini cuba probably men is a vast phalanx that cannot be lined up and marched away at short notice to the tapping of a drum especially after we had captured and destroyed fully two thirds of all that nations a available callable water craft it is questionable a ce indeed if our own e country with all of its ita immense carrying ying capacity put to its utmost liml limit t of ability could have the task within the I 1 time for the vanquished a power to do it with but little left to do it with we can afford to be just and in order to be strictly so 90 must commence me nee by being considerate and reasonable 1 there are some other things to think of in this his t connection the soldiers trained to more automatic methods than other people are re were but a fra fraction c of the w hh had and have to be removed the protocol calls tor for the complete withdrawal of spanish authority and extinction of spanish jurisdiction upon the island that was agreed to some three months ago three months and a 11 little over beyond that the first assault upon spanish supremacy to in the west weal indies was begun in less leas than half a year a power entrenched on cuban soll soil by an occupation and a rule extending for four centuries cen luriea of unremitting time was waa broken up and the physical power supporting such rule denuded of its strength under stipulation to withdraw and return no more it Is a work so mighty in its scope so vast in re its consequence that reflection upon it to Is almost bewildering the world has nothing in its history approaching a parallel to it great conquests have been made mighty changes change a wr wrought bi t and wondrous consequences evolved out of situations which promised but little to those who carried on the work but nowhere is it recorded because nowhere did it occur that rute rule ot a great nation over a grand province that had been undisputed for more than years and had thus thun become so firmly im bedded that it seemed as if nothing not hing merw mortal could shake it was within three moons utterly destroyed dissipated like chaff before an angry blast and all the fe realities of its existence brought to naught so marvelous was the execution that those who took the leading parts in bringing it about must inevitably for a time have perm permitted eted their thedr judgment t to rest upon the filmy f fabric brit which a swelling heart and a mind sui surcharged charged with the joy of a great cinq conquest aest had so hasty and inconsiderate things we were re done demanded and even agreed to it Is ia one of the weaknesses of malt maa kind that at ant some times he be is apt to be himself an oppressor although himself the means of bringing oppression to an end all of odthe the features of the case are not given adequate attention aad an fl conclusions are reached without reference to propriety or care A more regard for the importance of the cuba situation would or might have been the means ot causing our people to realize i that governments and long established though they may be auces cesa cess fully assal assailed led cannot all at once b be e wholly obliterated by the agencies overthrew them the altea dying evolving hand of time must figure in the final solution customs and habits which have grown grawn up and become strengthened by reason of I 1 isolation from antagonism and which ate are savak at variance with what more advanced people know to be correct and bene beneficial ficha can only be made to disappear by degrees association and example in the accomplishments ments of such are the legitimate successors of hostile battalions and fire belching batteries laws as we have and anci understand autem are likely to be ineffectual for a time at least and when made the less drastic and voluminous they are the greater is the progress of the elams wt which they are aimed likely to be with all things sev severely er considered with as much of rigor a observed as th the situation admits of and with steade steadfast discipline sternly maintained the progress made is apt to be more mechanical than moral and to require the con perea pere ence mence of a superior force to keep jt it in existence at all but with due regard had for the past azid and allowance for w what hat h at the past has brought tor for us with pati patience once and eten e t en long suffer ing practiced iced wherever su such ch are likely to be benell beneficial cial with the alexandrian Alexandri in method ot of unraveling knotty quest question loft eliminated from the proposition and ana with a strict to tie be mercifully just bat in U pap we W all p ap pp eed as rapidly along the road to the consummation devoutly to be wished as 15 possible PIO under all the circumstances |
