Were it not for the fact that Congress last spring expressly disclaimed any intontion to annex Cuba that would be the natural outcome of the war, for this country dares not take the moral responsibility for such government as the natives would likely establish and maintain of themselves. As it is, the stay of American military power in the island "until a stable government shall be established" is likely to prove more extended than was at first pane. It may be that the story of the English la Egypt will be repeated.
AS T0 PORTO RICE, that fertile island with its 800,000 people, a thousand miles from the southern shore of the United States, few had so much as heard of its existence before the war. Now it is destined to be at once a part of this country.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.