Show THE CUBAN REPORTS the salt S alt lake herald rails calls attention in its feeble way to the news from cuba of the arrest and imprison merit of the editor of JA pardo for hia his advocacy of annexation As usual the scribe exhausts twenty minutes in passing a given point and after the ordeal is over the reader is made wiser in nothing save the uninteresting ltd fact that the herald editor lias has read he the latest dispatch from cuba and has moreover seen in times past other diF dispatches patches from that province none of which in his estimation were reliable news those vi ho have not been watching the progress of even events ts in cuba would do well to begin at the first opportunity the pointless inference of the herald that the present agitation is one of the public brawls common to cuba ia is not true to the situation toe report of wednesday states that numerous journals of the island have been cen openly advocating annexation that one of them had been suddenly I 1 bounced upon by spanish officials and that the traction th action has created a general clamor among the people this may bo be an exaggeration and the fait fart remains the tle same that for it to be absolutely true buld not be inconsistent with the cloud of political complications that is accumulating over that island in the fit fust st pla cellie ethe brazi brazilian han revolution has scattered the germs of a political convulsion n not ot only in cuba but bat in the country to h ch it is now no involuntarily subservient mr air blaine has within a short time manifested his desire tor for cubin annexation Tha euch tsuch would bean eventuality desirable to the cuban settlers there is no question spain the controlling cont roling power is almost at a point of revolution itself her iler ia lawful I 1 U I 1 sovereign Is a child and a very puny one that is liable any day to join bin his illustrious ancestry in the tile universal 8 at realm the slightest eligh teat mistake on the part of those in control of the empire might precipitate a domestic conflict that would leave cuba entirely upon lier her own recognizance with these facts hi tn view cubas affairs have more than a passing interest |