The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-06
A PARTISAN CONSUL
Ramon Williams of Havana
Argues Urgently for
Cuban Independence.
ISLANDS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Florida officials Deny Participating
in the Revolutionary
Meeting.

WASHINGTON. April G. 1S95.-consul
General Ramon Williams of Havana has
sent the State Department remark
able argument against the continuance of
Spanish rule in Cuba and in favor of
tariff independence.
Reporting under date of February 8
regarding the American -four market in
the island he writes:-
United States that now sends flour to
the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rtce..
IN S9e velaidpn be 1em span Is don eco
nomic law and at the expense OF Cuba
by lessening the purchas sing power of
her exports in their exchange for her.
imports; for there is scarcely vestige
of natural economic tie remaining be-
tween these colonies and their mother
in the case OF Cuba, that they have to
send nearly all their exports for outle:
to the U1ited States. the beet sugar of
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hol-
land, Russia and other countries having
excluded the cane sugars Of all the West
India Islands, as wen as those Of Brazil tz,l
ent ' OF on : that ha of Of the the' United states.
sreps2 p9ihad hst 0ns Sad the fe
overtake the island from the system of
partial or unreciprocal protection i'm
This erroneous system of public admins.
tration is now becoming so manifest that
all can see it.
SPANISH WHEAT.
Spain does not produce wheat enough
to leave surplus of flour for expotHt'a-
ton to other countries. To send flour
to Cuba and Puerto RICO of ner own mill
ing, she must buy the wheat either in
Southern Russia or in the United States.
She hoes this, because retalning the
tariff making power for the islanss and
putting the duties up high enough, she
is enabled TO run into the islands IN her
shipping, the -four nilDed at San.andem.
Silbao and Barcelona from foreign wheat,
being held under her colonial system as
coastwise, whila the navigation from the
colonies to Spain is treated on footing
with foreign trade. Under the same high
wall duties and her so-called coaStwise
trade. Spain is also enalblsd to bring
American four VIA the pentnsular ports
to the islands. Only a few weeks ago
newspaper of Matanzas called attention
to the fact that a lot of -four had been
Ia rded at that port from SDai,a with the
millers mark at Minneapolis, Minn., still
on the bags.
Mr. Williams encloses translaItions of
articles published in leading newspapers
of Cuba, and says
These publications will likewise convey
Ito the department samples of the pubic
disc orltent prevailing here against the
IS still held by the mother country. For
The effects are tanbamount 70 a second
bounty wrought by Spanish legislation
IN favor of all other stIgar-producing
countries against Cuba and Puerto Rico.
,Consul-General Williams cio&es his re-.
port by instituting a comparison between
ishe present ec0nunlic po5scy 81 Great'
Britain towards her reproducing
West Indian possessions and that of
Spain towards Cuba, greatly to the dis
para cement of Spain.
FLORIDA OFFICIALS HEARD FROM.
Attorney General Olney today made
public this telegraphic correspondence,
upon which he based his deaial, given to
the press yesterday, of the "participa-
tion' of United States officials in the
meeting of Cuban sympathizers at jack
sonville, Fla, ON the night of April 4th:,
Department of Justice. & y AWa5Shlngton' Was I ton
CLARK. U. S. Attorney, Jacksonville.
Were yourself and Marshal Mckay
participants in a meeting OF Cuban SYM
pdthizers at jacksonville yesterday, as
"OLNEY.- Attorney General"
JACKSONVILLE. Fla, April 5, 1895.
OLNEY, Acknowledgement. Washington,
Marshal Mckay and myself were not
participants in meeting refrrred to, and
had mash;ng to DO with It, Reports to
the contrary ah~---ely false.
CLARK, u. 8. Attorney.
1t will be noted that neither of these
officials denies that he was present" at
the meeting, and the press agent at
Jacksonville. Fla, reiterates his state
ment that both gentlemen were in al
tencance. The denials are restricted 10
"ptarticipation"