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Character military government in Cuba

In Cuba, after the Spanish sovereignty was extinguished in 1899, a civil administration was inaugurated, but it was a creature wholly at the will of the President, the better to subserve the policy of the United States Government. It was intended to placate the people and render easier the task of the military governor. The history of the world furnishes, perhaps, no equally signal instance of national and disinterested generosity as that here evidenced towards the embryo Cuban republic.