The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-04-29
REN. BUTLER nOME AGAIN.

What he SAW OF Cuba. FLORIDA, an'
| Aiigators, aud What he Thinks OF
! Politics.
GFrom New York Sun, l9th.l
Gen. Benz. +. Butler has just return
Ell from a trip to the West Indies il
his yacht, the America. He appears Il
be in cellcnt health, says he feels first
work. He says that he was not troub
led by seasiclSness, although they
encountered very rough weather. Had
not the America been \ staunch boat
and the crew first-rate sailors they
would not have survived some of the
storms in which they were caught.
"l can't tell you anything about my
| trip" he said to Sun reporter in Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday, abecause Mr..
9. A. ID. has in his sCuban Notes
anticipated anything 1 might say. I
left Fortress Monroe March 3, aud
have stayed some time at Havana,
Nassau, and Fernandina. MY obser-
| vations agreed with his except that l
think I would have put 1t somewhat
stronger in regard to the decatlence OF
sugar planting. They have an army
of some 10000 odd men there to be
enormous taxation to meet. They i'm
port all their beef from South America,
and all they have to depend upon to
pay their way is their tobacco and
sugar, and they can't carry the burden.
1 agree with e. a. d. that there Is no
Likelihood of another war of indepen-
dence for long time to come. They
are Thoroughly whipped out.
t'I did not come straight North from
Cuba, but ran over to Florida. We
went up some ofthe Florida rivers, and
had sport shooting afligators. My son
shot seven or eight of them. We caught
three Of them that were about eight
feet long, and brought the skin of one
back with US. It's not such AN easy
thing to get an alligator. If you kill
one he's likcly to sink, and if he's only
wounded he'll hide. And by the way,
we did not find tho allieator's scales
such q tough, resisting substance as we
had heard. Not only will rifle bull
let penetrate an alligator's back easily,
but we found that q load of buckshOt
went in pretty effictually. One of our
party put IL rifle bullet in the head of
one about two inches back of tho eye,
and it went clean through"
10 interrogatories as to his views on
politics, the General said that he had
no views to give. He had been OIL
having II good time and had not been
reading the papers. 'I don't see why"
he said, "the Administration should
wish to attack Mr.. Conklins, nor why
there should be any quarrel ut all. But
l don't know enough about the pending
deadlock and affairs since Gen. Garfield
went in to express an opinion on the
subject"
About politics in general, Mr.. Butte
said:
"After all, the only real issues are
the struggle with the powers of corpora
tions and the financial question. The
control which rich corporations are OBJ
tanning must be resisted, and so also
the attempts of the banks to get rid of
the greenback national currency. I
have no fear of any panic resulting
from any financial arrangements at
present. In fact, panics do not come
from movements of currency, but from
over Investments and reck less trading.
The amount of currency in circulation
bears very small proportion to the
volume of trade.
can say nothing because know moth
ing. One side say they are for free
ballot, n full vote, and an honest count.
The other side say they are for the
same thing, so that there is no issue in
that. Up in Massachusetts they say
they want that in the South. Well, I
happen to know that there has not
been Il free ballot in Massachusetts.
And then l hear great deal about
tissue ballots in the South. Well, that
is denied, but suspect there must be
some truth in it. For my own part,
l think that the American citizen
ought to be protected by his Govern
mcnt in the exercise of the most vaIu-
able of all rights. If the State power
doesn't do it, the Federal power ought
to. But, as l said before, the real
issues are the rule of the great corpora
tions and the financial question:"
o. fair Ohio on thy fertile plains
How grow great booming crops of massive
brains,
Aud little consulates beyond the sea
And Treasury desks at home but spront for
thee.
Where the Post-C Office woos the cool March
air.
Thy voice and hand, Ohio man, are there
For thee the sutlership bursts into bloom
For thee alone the Presidential boom.