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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 67, 17 September 1906, Page 5

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4 — — MR. ROOSEVELT INTERVENES , — » THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. HOSTILITIES MUST CEASE. [PBKSS ASSOCIATION.! NEW YORK, 15th September. President Roosevelt has addressed a vigorous letter to Senor Gonzolo de Quiesada, Cuban Minister at Washington regarding the insurrection in Cuba. Ho states that if Cuba wishes to retain her independence she must show ability to continue on ihe path of peaceful and orderly progress. American intervention will only come if Cuba shows that she has fallen into an insurrectionary habit, and lacks tho restraint necessary to peaceful self-government. Mr. Roosevelt points out that the contending factions are- plunging the country into anarchy. Patriots must sink their differences and personal ambitions, remembering only to preserve the country's independence, thus preventing the possibility of outsido interference. President RooEsvelt demands that hostilities cease immediately, also that some arrangement bo made securing permanent 'pacification. He is sending Mr. W. H. Taffc, Minister of War, and Mr. K. Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State, to Havana, as special representatives of America to assist in bringing about the above ends. ' ■«_ *_ PRESIDENT PALMA ARMED WITH AUTHORITY. BLUEJACKETS ON THE SCENE. HAVANA, 15th September. At an extraordinary session of the Cuban Congress President Palma was granted tho fullest powers to suppress the rebellion. The Opposition refused to vote. Bluejackets from tho United States cruiser Denver, who landed here and campod in front of President Palma's house, prevented an attack by the insurgents. NEW YORK, 15th September. It is hoped at Washington that the presence of United States bluejackets at Havana will Gorve as a warning to President Pulnia and the insurgents to heal thoir differences, and thus prevent drastic intervention. The cruiser Disic, with three hundred marines, has bsen ordered to Havana. Other warships are ready to 6ail in cue of need. That the rebellion in Cuba is the result of a strong desire on, the part of tho natives to havo the United States annex the island i 3 tho opinion ■expressed by Mr. Athcrton Brownell, a magazine writer, who spent many months in Cuba ctudyiug the political situation. "If this rebellion is not put down befoie ib gains dangerous headway, then the United States will -bo compelled to intervene, and' that is what the leading citizens of Cuba desire," Mr Browuell said. "A cry will then be raised for annexation, 'the political situation in Cuba is rotten, and 'the better, class of. Cubans are- sick of it. They were satisfied frith tlie manner in which the United States governed Cuba before it handed the affairs of the country over to the natives, and tucy # would like to sco the United 'States step in again. This has resulted in plans to compel the United States to annex the island. Ihe only way in which the people believed this could be brought about was by having a revolu-i tion." * It does not appear what precise grievances or alleged grievances, hays provoked this outbreak (comments the San Francisco Chronicle in an editorial on the Cuban When President Palma lived in New York, his neighbours in that State spoke highly of him as an excellent and patriotic gentleman, and tho people of the United States t.-ere veiy favourably impressed with the good judgment and , conservatism with which tho Cuban people selected for thoir first President a gentleman of thafc character who had been living for years entirely removed from personal contact with the intrigues and animosities incident to a revolutionary period His conduct in office, so fair as known hece, has always been patriotic, his statB papers dignified, n>nd his policios such ns commended themselves to the sober of all nations. He is, in fact, a representative of conservatism in tho sense that he insists on keeping the undertakings of tho country within its means. He has been opposed by the radical clement, which from this distance seems to be that class which desires from the Government that which the- country has no money to pay for. This element has contended that there have never been free elections in Cuba, but that all alleged elections have been controlled m the interest of Presidont, Palma, either by corruption or intimidation. At some elections tho opposition has sulked and refused to vote at all, insisting that "it was of no use." In such conditions the Latin-American plan is a "revolution' 1 headed by a "General" who, if successful, turns out the other fellow, shoots him if he makca too much fuss, and reigns in his stead until supplanted in the same way. It is that kind of a government which tho United States tis undr tijtaty obligations to prevent in Cuba, as we shall doubtless do. The only way in which Pr-esident Palma. can be got out of office — except by assassination — is by waiting until his term expires and then electing somebody else.