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Show I jijjaHP Cuban Forebodings. H '' lHHii Naturally the insurrection in Cuba is a mat- Bj ri'ilSHHBi ter of extreme anxiety to the government of the mm ' j'ljSHHHi ' United States and to millions of the people, be- H IHBh'' cause the rebels down there are a stubborn set, H ' !'11h9Hm v they do not want amnesty, they do not want even H ' jffllfljflHtt a truce, they want their demands complied with mm immmmmt or declare they mean war. H '.y9DH Cuba is but a little way from off our shores, Brl liffln a ront many people in the United States have ffif fjraHH&L arms for sale and ammunition, and would not Em ''WWKmmmmm grieve much were the insurrection to swell into mm 'MxmBKkm, a great war, so the insurgents and regular gov- H r'wHH ernment would have to patronize them. At the R " HllSfllr same time the government cannot afford to have I nfH any civil war raging in Cuba for any great length I ''JfifllK of time, it is bound by its treaty with Cuba to stop I 'lllKiflB any such thing, but that might get to be a very B 'iliiaHlK serious matter, it might involve us in a way H ' IfraHjHK which would require perhaps as large an army H -s-mhB as was sent there before and then there would H : 'llwHB come the danger. Our country cannot go there IB t(SmBs overy three or four years and settle up a family I HflflR quarrel in Cuba, but no thoughtful person wants I MiflHCflR Cuba annexed to the United States, because the H f jSnHGI people there would be in perpetual danger of re- I i ikSjHs volts and trouble, and a large proportion of the ilSflHl people in Cuba and all other Spanish America, I IliHK would insist that tho design of our country from ! ' taiflBBf the first was to take in Cuba, that all our pro- l '''HSIHl fessed friendship was but a mask, that the real t''RRHI ldea lias al1 tlie time teon to appropriate the beautiful island. Wo do not want this Spanish State in our Republic, we do not want a state with a vast population which are themselves incapable in-capable of self-government. There is only one way in which annexation could be possible, and that would be by petition of the strong men of that island, strong men professionally profession-ally and in business, it would have to be an open deal, apparent to all the world, and even then the annexation would be made only with misgivings, misgiv-ings, because that whole people have been trained in Spanish methods', they are a passionate race, they are liable on a simple impulse to go to war at any time, and, hence, we will all nurse the hope that the difficulty may "be settled without landing a soldier or marine or without firing a shot. Cuba is a beautiful island. If two-thirds of its present population could bo swept off into tho sea it would make the most delightful state in the union, and one of the richest, but its men are not sincere patriots, they are not level headed, head-ed, a great many of their instincts are cruel and there is no such thing as gratitude in their natures. na-tures. "When our flag was folded there and carried on board an American war ship, and that ship was firing salutes and moving out of the harbor, one paper in Cuba next morning represented Cuba as standing kicking Uncle Sam out of the island, and that was after wo had stopped the barbarities of Spain, after we had cleaned and renovated Spanish Span-ish cities, after we had killed the pestilence that had been raging for a straight hundred years, after af-ter we had fed the hungry, after we had established estab-lished school houses by the hundreds and sent teachers there to educate the children of the poor, this" ingrate of an editor published a cartoon car-toon representing Cuba kicking Uncle Sam off the island. We do not want any close relations with such people, except in the matter of business. We do not want ever to have to say "Our sister state" of Cuba, and while things look like a determined revolution now, we still hope that the influence of our government will be sufficient to restore quiet there, without the extensive use of overwhelming over-whelming forces. The Plymouth Tercentennial. In the Outlook is the address of Dr. Edward Everett Hale delivered at Plymouth August 1st the occasion being the tercentennial of the found! ing of Plymouth church at Scrooby, England. The original creed is given in these words: They joined themselves into a church estate (by a covenant of the Lord)' in the fellowship of the Gospel to walk in all his ways made known or to be made known to them, according to their best endeavors, whatever it shall cost them." The next year they were driven to Holland, in 1620 they came to America. It was but a little com-pany. com-pany. We do not propose to review Dr. Hale's ad. dress. The only way to review one oi his addresses ad-dresses is to publish it in full. But reading it one's thought goes out to the effect which followed the work of that little company com-pany who first met together and made a covenant cove-nant to walk in God's ways as made known to them, or .as should be made known to them. They were not perfect men, but they determined to grow into as near perfection as it was possible to do. amid their harsh environments. When tho aristocracy of England made things too unpleasant unpleas-ant for them they went away to Holland, from there in the little Mayflower they dared a winter voyage only to land upon a. frozen coast. Of that Mayflower Carlyle said: "What ship Argo or miraculous epic ship, built by the sea-gods was other than a foolish bumbarge in comparison." The old Romans believed that a ship was sure to come safe to shore if but Castor and Pollock, "The great Twin Brethren", were seen to "sit shining in the sails." Well a greater than the great twin brethren sat shining in the sails of the Mayflower. It was the spirit of Liberty. That band did not claim any distinct revelation to be their guide, from their bibles they had drawn the conclusion that the Infinite never designed that tho religion of men should be a complicated and abstruse something some-thing vouchsafed orlv to a few selected agents in this world, but that it was within the reach of all, and that it was intended for all alke. More, that man individually was directly responsible to God for his own acts and that no mortal had any au- thority or right to claim by special ordinances to be any other man's superior. Thus "separate as waves but united as the sea" they moved on. They kept at work subduing all the savageries around them and the savergeries of their own souls, growing stronger, braver and more determined deter-mined with the years, making a flght for life against hardships, but keeping their independence independ-ence and self-respect and faith always robust and warm. So they fought out the one hundred and fifty years until the time came when to keep die faith and "to walk in all His ways known or to be made known unto them," they joined with the descendants of the Cavaliers to build upon (he soil of the New "World a throne to Liberty. That influence that was started in an obscure I place in England by a few sincere people has been gaining in force ever since. It still is a compelling com-pelling force over all the north and west of our Republic, and to judge what it means is to compare com-pare our country with the lands to the south of us. The same spirit was the dominant one which ruled when Johnstown was settled, only in the south there was an insistence that men must be responsible for their individual acts much more intense than in the north. One trusted to the courts, the other believed in individual settlements, settle-ments, but when the shock of war come they stood side by side from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. When their descendants separated and a war was kindled, it was the clashing of an irresistible force against an immovable obstruction, and it made a page of history which men will shudder over for a thousand years. And that crude religion with its bigotry and cruelty in execution, will, refined down to a love for God and for one's fallen men, claiming all rights for itself and yielding all rights to others, be the substance of the religion of the future, and go on extending until its spirit will fill the world . and through it a higher civilization will come then the world has ever known. |