Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-09-29 | Page 4 | Cuba

CUBA current events in cuba tend most unhappily to exhibit those aspects of spanish american character which in many fields and with painful and tiresome iteration have illustrated political incapacity the hope that american example and operation cooperation co would counteract inherent tendencies toward and violence on the part of the cubans in tho organization and conduct of their government turns out as many ivery shrewdly suspected to have been futile it Is plainly demon borated that tharo has been no real development in cuban political ideas due to the course of events during the past few years that today as of old abo cubans as a people retain the old spirit which for nearly four centuries made the island a center of political in and confusion restrained only by the heavy hand of spain there elems on the part ot those who are politically active in no conception and no capacity to conceive the significance or the authority of american ideas they have no re eject for majorities there is no willingness on the part of men ambitious to accept conditions adverse