CUBAN AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9876, 17 October 1899, Page 2

CUBAN AFFAIRS.

Them: is a remarkable article iv the North American Review, understood to bo from the pen of an important American military officof in Cuba, regarding tho situation in that island. Those, he says, who ilnngine tliat the Cubans foci grateful for wjial has ))ecn dono and is being doilo for them, that American capital will find an outlot thero and create a nation, and that all will come right in the end, with a policy of drift, are deceiving themselves. While military conIrol continues timo will bring no solution. Tho excessive irritation continues, and daily vote for annexation aro being lost. It is very difficult for tlie Americana to understand the cause of tho estrangement. "Bruscqucncss. is our characteristic; politeness theirs." Generally speaking, the officers havo risen to the height of Castili.an courtesy, according to this authority. Not so tlie men. These offend without knowing it, but there aro many who delight in showing their contempt for Iho foreigner, and especially (he "Dago." Such men are seen everywhere, parading tlieir self-sufficiency in tho best hotels and restaurants, ami all theao classes aro exposed to tho annoy.ince. Tho Cubans say nothing, but they fieicoly resent the insults showered upon them. Tho writer in tho Review believes that tho proscnt policy of drift and military control means revolt, and then will appear good the claim of the Spaniards that tho war in 1898 ws ono of aggression, inspired by lust for territory. Tho view hero expressed seems to be borne out in a recput writing o'C General Garcia, a (.on of the famous Calixto Garcia, who says that humiliations woro heaped on his father, and that words can scarcely Pipresq the heart-burning caused by tho »**itnde of the invaders towards the Cubit.,3 who had long been fighting for tho cause.