ferson on a memorable
occasion, referring to the relations between America and Great Britain:

"Nothing would more tend to knit our affections than to be fighting once
more, side by side, in the same cause."

Thus we must reckon that affection and confidence between Cuba and the
United States were greatly strengthened and confirmed by the fact that
they were at least potentially and indeed to some degree actually
fighting side by side in the same cause, and that cause not exclusively
their own but that of the whole world. Nor was the event without a
comparable effect upon Cuba's relations to the world at large. Her
sympathies were broadened; her recognition by other powers was extended;
and as once she had been a mere pawn in the international game, now she
became a vital and potent factor in international affairs.

CHAPTER XX

"A revolution which comprehends the responsibilities incumbent upon the
founders of nations." Those were almost the last words of Jose Marti,
epigrammatically expressive of his purpose in fomenting the ultimate and
triumphant revolution of 1895-1898, and of the purpose of those devoted
men who caught the standard of liberty from his dying hand and through
labors and perils and tragedies incommensurable bore it on to victory.
How well that purpose has been served in these scarcely twenty years of
the independent Republic of Cuba, how true to Marti's transcendent ideal
his successors in Cuban leadership have been, the record which we have
briefly rehearsed must tell. On the whole, the answer to the implied
interrogatory is gratifying and reassuring.

The real leaders of the Cuban nation have comprehended the
responsibilities, unspeakably profound and weighty, that rest upon the
founders of a nation, and no less upon those who direct the affairs of a
nation after its foundation, to the last chapter in its age-long annals.
We should go far, very far, before we could find a statesman more
appreciative of that responsibility than Tomas Estrada Palma, or one who
more manfully strove to discharge its every duty with scrupulous
fidelity and with all the discretion and wisdom with which he had
himself been plenteously endowed and which he could summon to his
council board from among his loyal compatriots.

We must regard it as the supreme reproach of Jose Miguel Gomez that,
with all his ability and energy, he lacked that supreme quality, the
sense of civic responsibility, which Marti prescrib