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Show Cuban Cussedness. Affairs in Cuba have a bad look. Secretary Taft has found out the truth, that the averago Latin American is characterless; that he is a natural na-tural liar, that treachery is Inherent in his nature; that he can never be trusted; that his pretended patriotism is a mere affectation; that in every in-stinct in-stinct he is as cruel as he is cowardly; that to keep faith is impossible and withal he has a vanity and fool pride which are most grotesque in their presentations. We have an idea that Secretary Taft ls a cool man, but that he has to watch all the time to keep his temper under control, and he is liable at almost any time to blaze out on those shufflers there and make them think that a real West India hurricane is on the march in their near neighborhood. Still, we do not believe that there will be any final need of laying a mailed hand upon those shufflers unless the "patriot" bands, breaking from control commence the looting of the island, for they are all bluffers, and when a power ap-proaches ap-proaches which they know cannot be turned aside, they will weaken. The most of them are only fit for a reform school, or would be if there were any chance of reforming them. They aro simply grown up children in intellect, in all save inherent in-herent depravity. In that they are post graduates, or rather they are by heredity depraved. We are glad that Secretary Root is nearing home. His counsel in this crisis will be most valuable. val-uable. His last three month's experience will he of great assistance to the administration now. Spain was driven out of her island possessions, but her methods were not. Those methods are what the whole crowd in Cuba, want to establish, only each one wants a monopoly of them. Men are prone to take on some of the '.character '.char-acter of their surroundings. The flowers of Cuba are most beautiful but before plucking one of them a person has to look close to see if a scorpion Is not hidden within it. It is the same way with the promises of that people. We hope the difficulties there may be settled, or at least bridged over, but if they cannot be, we hope tho work of our government will be so thorough that the vagabonds there will not want a repetition of it for twenty years. |