The evening times., 1895-09-28
TIE CRUEL CASE OF CUBA
spiii';i' 'ijriiiiiJj worse iisi That lnsr-
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Governmental Corruption, Political
Jobbery and False Census Some
Of the Thisags She Has to Bear.
:, .fHayana I.etter.. New York SUM-

A cable from New York brought us last
week the good news that President Cleve-
Land will soon consider in full the Cuban ar
fairs. Heaven grant him a happy decision
on behalf of liberty and humanityl
As things are going in Cuba, 1t is q. duty
for America to act, The people who repre-
sent in this new world freedom, justice and
power cannot allow such war as this,
supported by the untamable ferocity OF
Spain. II England interfered with the
Sultan OF Turkey to protect from barbar-
ism the Christian Armenians, why cannot
America teach the intOlerant Spaniard that
1t is Impossible to rule a colony In the nine
teenth century on the patterns Of the fif-
teenth?
Cubans are under worst tyranny and vex-
ations than Americans endured before fnde-
pendence The island Ia crowded wita
Spanish officers, who have not the least
sense Of honor. From 1873 till to-day
probably $500. 900, 900 have been taken
from the appropriations for the navy and
Qualifications.
- Now, when q state of war prevails
throughout the country, Spain has TO spend
from the Cuban Treasury many millions
more, finding that no navy exists and no
fortress was built out Of the old ones.
As stated in my former letter, the Cuban
customs house is defrauded of $50, GOO
daily. This revenue amounts officially
In the budget to eleven millions. A private
company in Havana offers to pay the
government twenty-five millions for the
right to appoint employees
But the Spanish ministers of the colony
will never consent, BECAUSE they select for
customs-h house officers their own relatives
and particular friends, who send to Madrid
80 per cent. of their robberies. 1t Is a well
known fact that the majority of Spanish
politicians live on the frauds made at the
' customs houses in Cuba, and that the late
Senor Cristino Martos derived from that
source $40, 900 daily.
And Cubans have not even the right to a
decent place In the civil service. Only to
the rank OF fifth clerk, that Is To say with
an annual salary of $500, can the governor
general appoint state employees in Cuba.
Moreover. Cuba has to sell her sugar and
tobacco To any market she can except
Spain To protect a few sugar estates in
Malaga and The monopoly of the tobacco
company at Madrid, Introduction of those
two principal products of the island are
absolutely prohibited in the mother land.
And by way ofreciprocity, Cuba is forced
by an outrageous law to buy all Spanish
products, from Catalogna's coarse linen to
Castilla's, bad flour. Does not these facts
entirely justify astruggle for Independence?
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These are not the only griefs of poor
Cubans. There js not a Judge in the island.
neither in low courts nor in high ones,
who sentences in accordance with. right
and justice. The political party of Span
iards-la Union Gonstitucional-controis all
the courts OF justice. The mayor of Ha-
vana is also d Spaniard; Spaniard was
dis predecessor in Office, and not a single
Cuban belongs 10 the city council. ,..-
Political elections are useless. The cen
Gus is systematically falsfied to prevent
Cubans from obtaining their rights. Re-
mOnstrance is of no avail. The minister
of the colonies is too busy to hear the COM
plants of the island, appointing officers
to the custom house, and selling Cuban
bonds at and 9 per cent. to cover the
yearly deficits in the, budget, and, now,,to
bay the expenses of the war. SO the debt
of a population of 500, 200 is $500, ,OoO,-
600. ...-.- 80. r,,.....-
Let us admire the canGor with which
the Spanish prime minister, Senor Canovas
del Castillo, calls the insurgents bandits.
Bandits II the hero OF the Delaware was
bandit: n Bolivar was a bandit; if the
brave soldiers of A yacucho were bandits!
How easily Spanjar,fs call bandits all
those who resist their spoliations. The
case OF the American citizen, Mr. Julio San
gully, now imprisoned in a fortress at Ha-
vana, is a good sample OF Spanish bigutry.
Mr.. SanguiIy's crime to the Spanish gov
ernnent Is that be was a general in the
Cuban army during the last war After
peace was made in 1878, Mr. Sanguily
married in New YORK., resided there some
years, anu became citizen.
He never made another attempt to re-
volt in Cuba. When the war brok eout again
on the Gath of February last, the first step
of the Spaniards was to secure Mr. San
gully in the Fortress La Cabana. Asno evil
dence could be found against him for con-
spiracy, he was accused as an abettor
of the bandits, and tried before a court
martial.
Our consul In Havana respectfully pro-
tested against such behavior toward an
American citizen, and then Mr.. SanguiIy's
case was transferred to an ordinary tri-
bunal. But this change, in a Spanish col
ony only meaps change of form. Before
the civil jutlge evidence brought against Mr..
Sanguily was no more honest.
Mr. sanguily is not guilty, but to satisfy
Spanish revenge for his past he must re-
main imprisoned, no matter what outrage
IS Inflicted on rea son and humanity. Pleas
fOr n Ri
Cuban fnsurgent and an American citizen
Mr.. sanguily will ever be bandit for the
Spaniards.
Underthesam epretext Spanish warfare In
Cuba is fearfully savage The government
carefully conceals the facts to avoid for
eign interference. When a Cuban soldier
is caught be is Slain on the spot as a bandit.
And now because the Cubans use dyna.
mite to destroy some military railroads
the spaniards are prepared to return the
compliment, "treating the coward asur-
gents as wild beasts" to quote the Havana
Spanish papers own words
A cable from, Madrid announces to-day
that the aim of the government is Ito ami
hilate tue cuhans" before next summer.
Yesterday the same papers reported with
delight the hnftrtunate fate of the Cuban
Cantero. Seriously wounded in battle
near the sugar estate AItamira, he was sur
rounded by Spanish troops, Defenseless, he
asked merry. The Spanish sub-lieutenant,
Ruiz Coca, braveiy shot him.
Besides this, twenty-five Cubans were
killed in the province Of sagua and Col San
chez wounded with dynamite bomb thrown
by the Spaniards. When we think that those
men, treated as wild beasts" are fighting
for human cause. for liberty and for per-
sonal dignity, we cannot remain Indifferent
to such atrocities. The least we can do is