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Show . aHIM mg V,l.-a tA , FAVORS AMERICAN C0NTR0L0F CUBA Former President Estrada Palma Expresses His Views Regarding American Intervention. Is Convinced That United States Saved His Beloved Country From Anarchy and Its Natural Result Re-sult of Plunder and Ruin. Havana. Estrada Palma, formerly president of Cuba, has authorized tho publication of his vtows regarding American intervention. Ho declares publicly In favor of American control In Cuba. "It Is enough to satisfy my conscience," con-science," ho said, "this conviction of having saved my beloved country from anarchy nnd Its natural results of plunder nnd ruin." Ho continued, describing whnt ho considers tho criminal acts on tho part of tho revolutionists, and tho no-cosslty no-cosslty to call on tho Americans to ! prevent a protr.ictcd nnd sanguinary content. "If I did right or wrong, tlmo will say. Thnt my attitude was Immediately Immedi-ately Justified Is proven by tho sudden ro-estnblbhment of penco through tho moral and material Influence of tho Anierlcnn3. "I do not hcsltnto to doclaro that It Is a thousand times hotter for our Cuba to bo n dependent political nation whoro liberty Is provalllng thnn n re-public re-public Independent of n sovereign, but discredited nnd ruined by blasting periodical civil strifes." |