The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-15
TROUBLE THREATENED.
An Accounting Will Be De-
manded When the War
Is Ended.
A TRADE BY SENIOR ALVAREZ.
The Mayor of Havana Says the Flag
viii Not Protect Future Elk
petitions.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Aug 4.-The
Mayor of Havana, Senior Segunde Alvarez
who is at the Union-square Hotel says
that the Instruction in Cuba is not Sc
Tious matter, but that there is danger
ahead of trouble between Spain and the
United States, growing out of the action
of our Government in pressing Spain to
nav the Mora claim at this time, and OF
the aid that the Americans are extending
to Cuban agitators and tilibusters.
Senior Alvarez said he had heard moth
ing in regard to the reports that Martinez
Campos had resigned, and placed no con-
fdence in the rumors. He believed that
Campos had asked that a general be sent
from Madrid to assist him, and that the
man who is sent out will be placed in
charge OF all administration affairs, en-
> aiding Campos to devote his entire opera
tions in the field. When asked about the
revolution Senior Alvarez said:
at is rising of outlaws led by foreign
ers. The better class of Cubans have
nothing to do with it. In the Santiago
province the insurgents are nearly all ne
groes. Maceo, their leader, is a mulatto;
Gomez is a San DOMINICAN. All the other
leaders of the insurgents are American
citizens. They are foreigners on Cuban
soil, and should be shot down. American
citizens here who are aiding them should
not be allowed to hold meetings, raise
funds and fit up expeditions as they are
doing"
Senior Alvarez became very earnest at
this point, and spoke with emphasis. He
continued:
1.-The people of the United States should
remember that the war in Cuba is not a
war between two nations, and that they
cannot say, we will be neutral 1t is a
difficulty one nation is having in its own
family, and America must keep her hands
off. Americans not only permit foreign
ers but allow their own citizens to con-
spire against Spanish authorities, and
Spain is friendly nation"
But has not the United States by proc
lamation and by orders to men-of-war and
revenue cutters shown its friendship for
Spain ?"
eyes, but what good does man-of-war
anchored at Key West do? None at all.
, Expeditions are fitted out just the same
Nend sent under the protection of the
American flag. Perhaps your Government
acts because it knows that Spain is keep
ing an account Of all the expeditions that
are sent out, and when the trouble in Cuba
is over. will ask the United States to pay
damages. Your newspapers publish de-
tailed accounts of how those expeditions
are fitted out, and how they are landed
Are meetings to be held in your cities
money raised for the avowed purpose of
sending war supplies to Cuba, and expe-
dltions to be fitted out and sailed under
the American flag with no redress for
Spain?
'"Let me tell you this" continued Senior
Alvarez. "The American flag is being
used to cover every crime. Spanish Off
GERS are getting tired of letting expeditions
escape because they sail under the Ameri-
can flag. The day may come when an
officer will no longer permit vessel to go
free through respect for the flag. Some
thing will happen-not to the flag, but to
the boat that is using it-and there may be
trouble between Spain and the United
States.
Another thing we do not like" said
Senior Alvarez, sis insisting that the Mora
claim be paid just when Spain needs
money for war purposes. The claim itself
is unjust and should never be paid. All
the arbitra tors have decided against it..
Mora was never an American citizen until
his property was destroyed. 1t would
never have been pushed if Spanish Min
lister was not to get share of it. And
why does not the United States pay the
claim that Spain has had ever since Flor
ida was purchased? 1t was then agreed
that Spanish residents who gave up their
property should be reimbursed, but they
have never been paid. 1t does not come
with good grace for the United States to
ask Spain to pay a million and half now,
and the manner in which the claim has
been pressed makes Spaniards sore. The
United States does not pay the award
made by the Boring Sea Commission and
is getting the reputation of being bad
debtor among the nations, yet demand is
made that Spain pay the unjust Mora
" aim, and must do it at once. All these
things make our blood boil.'
Senior Alvarez expects to return to
Havana in September.