Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-16
CUBA PRIVATE PROPERTY
FOREIGN CAPITALISTS WORK
ING UP A BIG sCHENTE.

Chances That Spain win Be offered
100000 900 for the Island-The Gov
ernment to be Made Acceptable 70 tho
People-Gen. Gonzales Escape from
the Horrors of spanish Prisons.
Col. A. b. Linderman, Of Philadelphia,
the protector of several great Florida land
schemes, says a New York special Of the
18th inst. to the Philadelphia Press, viii
sail in a few days for Madrid. via London
and Amsterdam, in the hope Of eousum-
mating arrangements for the purchase of
the Island Of Cuba from the Spanish Cove,
ernment. This scheme was submitted BY
Col. Linderman in January to a syndicate
Of English and Continental capitalists,
and an agent was sent to Cuba to consult
with leading men on that island.
Col. Linderman then returned 20 this
country, and has since conferred with
gentlemen in Washington with view OF
meeting International questions likely TO
arise in the sale Of the island. Speaking
Of the project to-day, he said:
"phe price mentioned Is $50, 0,000, 900.
The syndicate understands that it cannot
exercise the rights of sovereignty, but OBJ
lection can be overcome by a new form of
government which will be satisfactory 20
/ by giving them the long-sought-fer FREE
dom from the Spanish Governments. The
scheme means momentQus changes for
Cuba, including the early abolition Of
slavery, the reduction of taxes, the in
crease OF productions, ana the restoration
of the island to the proud commercial
position which it once held. After a few
years of freedom and progress, it would
not be strange if Cuba was found reposing
under the banner of Uncle Sam"
SPANISH BRUTALITY.
Gen. Gonzales, one of the most promi-
nent leaders in the Cuban revolution, has
arrived in this city after three years. inn
pris0nment in Morocco and one in Spain.
He escaped q few weeks ago and, un-
daunted by the severity OF his prison life,
proposes to join Aguero in his newly im-
prOvised movements. He speaks Of his
prison life in Africa as a period of the
cruelest torture. Whole families were
condemned to exile there, and the hus-
bands, wives and children were kept in
separate prisons and never permitted to
communicate with one another.
''For the least infringement Of prison
discipline" he added, ''we were put in
irons and often simply for speaking our
minds too freely about the Spanish Gov
ernment. The food we got was not fit for
dogs, but, badly as we We're treated nc
were brought back to Spain, where the
confinement was closer. We were pun-
ished by solitary Imprisonment and abused
by our keepers for the least expression Of
political opinion"
"What do you think Of the proposition
to sell Cubar'
"We have not much expectation of that,
and we do not want to see it, though
Spain might take that means to get rid OF
the trouble, but nothing short Of uncon-
ditional Independence viii satisfy us.
When we pass from under the yoke of
Spain we want to be free.n
"Do you intend to risk your neck in
Cuba againp'
81 don't think It will be so much Of a
risk when Aguero can hold his own SO
we'll against the Spanish forces. When
we get few more detachments into the
island l think there will be good pros
pect of driving the Spanish out before
another year."
Gonzales is expecting Gomez Bonachea
and others to join him in this city in o
short time.