e for the treasured wrongs of many years.
But there was of course no such uprising. The Cubans wished to make the
day an occasion of great public celebration, but the authorities--Cuban
and American as well as Spanish--would not permit it. It was not
courteous to exult over a beaten foe. Besides, any such celebration
would have caused great danger of trouble. What was inexcusable,
however, was the condition in which the Spanish left all public
buildings. They looted and gutted them of everything that could be
removed. They destroyed the plumbing and lighting fixtures. They broke
or choked up the drains. They left every place in an indescribably
filthy condition. There was nothing in all their record in Cuba more
unbecoming than their manner of leaving it. Such was the last detail of
the settlement with Spain.

The settlement with Cuba came next. Indeed, it was concurrently
undertaken. And it was by far the more formidable task of the two. It
was necessary to arrange for the transfer of the temporary trust of the
United States to a permanent Cuban authority, and to do so in
circumstances and conditions which would afford the largest possible
degree of assurance of success. It is said that when the American flag
was raised at Havana in token of temporary sovereignty, on January 1,
1899, an American Senator among the spectators exclaimed, "That flag
will never come down!" There were also, doubtless, those among the Cuban
spectators who thought and said that it should never have been raised,
but that sovereignty should have been transferred directly from Spain to
Cuba.

Both were wrong; as both in time came to realize. It was necessary for
the sake of good faith and justice that the American flag should in time
come down and give place to the flag of Cuba. It was equally necessary
for the sake of the welfare of Cuba and of its future prosperity and
tranquillity that there should be a period of American stewardship
preparatory to full independence.

There was, as we have already indicated, some friction between Cubans
and Americans at the time of intervention in the Spring of 1898. The
Cubans thought that the American army should not enter Cuba at all, save
with an artillery force to serve as an adjunct to the Cuban army. On the
other hand, Americans were too much inclined to disregard the Cuban army
and Provisional Government, to forget what the Cubans had already
achieved, and to act as though the war were solely betwee