The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1873-11-27
SPAIN's INTEREsTrTN CUBI.

outside of municipal taxes amounted
to $26,OOo 900 year. OF this about
$50, 900, 900 year were expended in
Cuba for support Of standing army
of 10000 regulars and Of affect COM
posed Of about forty vessels, beside
the support of $4,000 Spanish offici>
ais employed IN the city government
of the Island. These officials were
always aud now arc sEsniards sent
from Spain to c6'EySSfne Cuban
people were not alloWSSd TO particle
pate in the administration Of the af-
fairs of the island except in local
matters. The net revenues of Cuba
to Spain before the insurrec,ion were
Thus about SG,00O,Oo0 year. This
money was sent TO Madrid The
municipal taxes were large (about
SIO,OoO,ooO yearO amounting in
Havana alone to 81 100000.
In 1869, (after the conflict had
been some time in progrcss) the cs.
innate Of the expenses Of the Span.
ish government in Cuba was bet wecn
$40 600, 900 and $37 1000 900. Since
the campaign of 1869 opened,
Spain has absorbed AL the revenues
OF Cuba (besides creating bonded
debt there amounting p $40, 900, ,OOO)
in carrying on the war against the
insurgents. There has been no off.
cIal record submitted. whereby the
exact revenues can bc asccrtaincd,
but they have been undoubtedly
much lrss during the war than before.
The territory M the iniSrior occupied
by the insurycnt Cuhans Is Of n pro.
ductive character, and the sugar raj
sed there has yielded no revenue to
the Spanish government. Many
sugar plantations belonging TO insur.
gents were seized aud cul,iy a. ed by
the Spanish authority, hut by reason
of corruption aud incompctcncy the
revenues from this source were very
small. 1t is charged Snd generally
! a'''"i.,sa ,h"V 49,. - &af Cuba, as
regards the collvc,i1mf.hd disburse-
mcnt of rc,e ucs, have been ou;ra-
gcously corrupt.
In 1860 the Culan revvluiionists
are understood to have had tifty
! thousand men III the field at one
time, but they were very poorly
armed. Tncy were so determined,
however, that instances, were ire-
qucnt in battl. where men who We, e
armed simply with the mdchette,
(canc kniGc.) burst through the lines,
regardless of their lives, in friendly
race with each other for the arms
and ammunition Of dead Soaniards.
Since the war commenced nearly
forty thousand CubaRs, according to
the records, have been executed by
the Spanlards. IIoe many have
been killed in battle is not ascertain.
ed !or want Of record. The Span
iards killed in battle and executed
by the revolntiomists have amounted
To about scventy-fve thomand.
The volunteers, forming the bulk
Of the army in Cuba, have proved
utterly uncomfortable. 1t was their
open mntiny that compelled the res.
equation of Captain General Dulce,
and 1t Is understood that they have
dictated the removal Of several oth-
ers. No cap,ain-gencial has yet felt
that his liie was safe il the hands of
his own troops The worst elements s
Of Cuban society in the cities was
drawn upon for the volunteer force.
The chief officers, civil and military,
are all drawn iron. Spain, and are
paid salaries Amounting to fifty
thousand dollars, gold, year, for a
cartaiu-general, twelve thousand
dollars a year for dstrict coInman.
der, and 40 on. These volunteers
hate the Spanish soldiers, but are
more intensely bittT against the
Cubans. They hate americans, too.
The Cuban patriots love Americans.
They say they have fnght four wears