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Show w CUBA AND SELF DETErOnN'ATION" Cuba in spite of all her tutelage, does not seem yet able to govern herself. She Is In all sorts of difficulties, diffi-culties, financial, economic, and po-; po-; iitical and so we have to send Gen- ,'ral Crbwder to straighten her out. In some respects the difficulties of - Cuba: are those of the rest of the world. There has been a panic as a result of the fall in the price of su-gar, su-gar, with a consequent paralysis of - -trade and a general inability to pay bills." But the graver troubles are political. Cuba, like so many other Latin-American states, refuses to see anything final in a popular election, elec-tion, and here we have the best of all tests of political competence. Cuba has just passed through a pres Identiat election and the beaten par- ' ty, as usual, refuses to admit that it Is beaten and brings charges of fraud. There' are some other elections elec-tions that may have a decisive bear- ing upon the main issue and the U. 8. has been asked by the liberal party par-ty to supervise these elections and to Insure their proper conduct. All this has a distinct bearing on the doctrine of selfdetermination. How can we demand the application of this doctrine to people who are far behind the Cubans in political in- telligense while we see Cubans them solves can not get along without an intervention? Not only are we now engaged in Cuban intervention, and rightly so, but we expressly demand the right of intervention in the Cu- - ban treaty, which reads: "That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to inter-vent for the preservation preserva-tion of Cuban flndenpendenco and maintenance of a government ade- qu&te for the protection of Ufa, property, pro-perty, Individual liberty and for dis- charging the obligation with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris, now to be assumed and undertaken un-dertaken by the government of Cuba." Cu-ba." How can we keep a straight face in demanding selfdetermination for Armenians, Egyptians, and Hondus with these repeated rCuban failures confronting us? We intervened in 1906 and remained in occupation of Cuba for three years. Now we are compelled to intervene once more and it is by no means unlikely that there will be another season of occupation. oc-cupation. a |