Minor Mention

Minor Mention

We do not apprehend that the adoption of resolutions by Congress favoring either Cuban belligerancy or Cuban independence will result in any serious complications with Spain or with any other power. Spain has more than she can well attend to in Cuba now and it is not likely that sehe would be foolish enough to tackle the United States when such an act would ensure thae speedy loss  Cuba. No other power has interest eunough in Cuba, or in Spain to join issue with her, and incur the expense of war to enable her to hold Cuba. There is not the slightest probability that England would, unless, perhaps, in the event of complications in Venezuela which would not be settled in a peaceable way (of which there is little danger) she might encourage Spain to embarrass this Government. There is as little probability that France will get mixed up in it, on account of the Spanish loans held by the Bank of France, for that matter could doubtless be arranged by frends of Cuba in a matter satisfactory to France. The passage of these resolutions will, in our opinion, expedite the settement of the trouble in Cuba and secure home government, at least, which many of the Cubans would have preferred some time ago to independence and many, doubtless, would still prefer. Independence has, in the estimation of many of them its disadvantages, with the mixed population and the preponderance of the black element, which would, of course, claim recognition and might have, if they saw fit to exercise it, a controlling voice in the government of a Republic, which contingency would not present itself with simply home rule. Spain cannot reasonably be as deaf to the demand for home rule as to the demand for independence, and as this struggle is costing her a good many men and a great deal of money, with less prospect of sucess now than ever before, her reason may get the better of her stupidity and pride, and she may show more disposition to listen to a proposition for home rule in the island. War is a costly buisness, entirely too costly for a nation with Spain's empty treasury.

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The Weekly Star (Wilmington N.C.)

March 06, 1896

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