Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-11
WHAT He SAYS ABOUT CUBA.
A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND THE
TROUBLE WITH IT.
THE INSURGENTS AND THE
HEADwAY THEY ARE MAKING.
COLONEL DUNCAN GIVES SOME
INSIDE LIGHT ON THE siTUA-
TON IN THE ISLAND.
Nnw oRLEsNs. La. AprIl 9.

Mr. Frank H. Duncan a well known
sugarmaker, arrived In the city some
days ago from the island OF Cuba,where
he had been to take on a crop at one
of the plantations few miles inland
from the coast
Mr.. Duncan was seen by a reporter
and told some very interesting things
about the little island In the gulf In
speaking OF the agricultural condition
of the country. Mr.. Duncan said;
CUBA is a veritablc tropical garden;
almost every known plant lives and
thrives. there and the balmy winter
weather Is beautiful and one can not
help enjoying IT, The interior In some
parts Is mountainous, but there is hard
ly square inch on the island that does
not contain some vegetable life"
The gentleman then went on to speak
OF the present condition OF the country
anu said that it was indeed deplorable.
with brigands, insurgents and robbers
of all kinds the people are kept In CON
slant terror Of their lives.
"The state or the country. owing to
Nllt ltNpAhAlNll NAllAI - llgM bhllk 0lls
is something terrible" said Mr., Dun
can.
"The Insurgents are a wild set and
work under three leaders. They burn
sugar houses country haclendus and
sometimes small towns and act gener-
ally like o. set OF barbarians."
rs 1t tAe pat the insurgents are
led by negroes, asked the reporter.
NO sir, 1t Is not emphadcally re-
piled Mr.. Duncan. Two of the lenders
are white, while the third Is n mulat-
to. but the last named WIS raised with
white people on plantation and has
the antipathy to his race that the
whites have. The natives of the island
are mostly half'brerds, ni%tl0ca or
whites, Indians and creoles Of the
Southern Islands.
The insurgents are a rough set and
the people OF the island Wlu roman
loyal to Spain stand IN great fear Of
them. The Spanish troops which have
been sent over to the island TO subdue
the Insurgents do not look like tip-top
soldiers, and whenever they 70 OF to
battle they appear as though they
would rather stay at home.
Spain can not AFFORD 10 lose cuba.
The country Is one of the richest in
the world ana 1t would forever ruin
and humble Spaht TO lose IT, The dep-
relations committed by the insurgents
of the island. The sugar crop WIS very
poor this season because SO many OF
the cane fields We're destroyed and
mills burned The insurgents along the
coast have captured several small craft
bearing the Spanish flag. but they
wont harm vessel bearing inc col
Ors Of England or the United states ~
what IL the feeling of the Spaniards
OF the island toward America and
Amerlcaus?'
VERY bitter. very bitter indeed.
,..ev hate America and all the North
ern republic people. and u SpDninrd al
ways looks at an American with dis
trustful eye. The hatred ~ the rugn-
iards Is so intense that orders were Is
sued some time ago that no American
could hold any position of trust on the
island. II Is r. very hard thing for one
of our people to get work on tho IT,
land. and not long ago the railroads
were forbidden to hire Americans and
I will not even take a fireman or a coal
! passer II he happens to be nm Nnc.
| lean The Spaniards fear that tho
United States wants to take cuba uNi
| behind their great hate turks deadly
| fear of the cool determined represent
| atives OF the great Northern republic
DO they hate the other foreigners
| like they do us2"
mo, they do not They will do any
| thing for u Scotchnan or an English.
/ man. and great many Of the former
| occupy good positions inrer .he In
/ terror government. They hato Amer.
/ leans for the simple reason that they
| stand in fear OF her coming down and
] taking possession Of the rich little Is.
land OF Cuba.
Now the Cubans do not hate The
Americans as their rulers do" con
tlnucd Mr. Duncan THE insurgent.
wore mostly favorable TO annexation