The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-05-11
PAPER MONEY IN CUBA
Worth Less Now Than Halt of It's
Face Value.
GOING DOWN EVERY DAY.
wsyisr.s Peace Proclamation Has but
Little wsiEht-sPain trying 20
Help His Fapsr Currency.
Fighting SIN Continued

Havana. May 10.-There Ia a grim
humor In the Official announcements
as to the state OF the instruction and
the outlook which causes a sneer In
Havana where food Is scare and sound
money scarcer As the situation grows
worse at every point the palace re-
ports become more rosecolored and
more ut war with the facts For in
stance. Tor q ocnton which Is worth
$40 IN Spanish gold, one may get
the equivalent Of SiisO In paper mon
ey IN Havana
Il % significant that the paper mon
ey Of Spain Is at a greater discount At
this moment. when the reforms are
said 20 be az hand than at any time
since the war began. During the ten
years war a centen was at one time
worth fi3 In paper and no one doubts
that bill viii reach or pass that point
again. Two months ago O centen was
worth $3.50 In paper and then there
was less talk OF pacincation and re-
forms than now.
The fact is no one pays any atton-
ton 10 General Weyler's proclama-
ton about the peace be says he has
brought about or TO his talk about
the golden time that Is coming now.
that the queen regent has been kind
enough TO sign the reforms. These
things are more sound. hut the paper
money Is a grim fact and the deter
mination with which all persons re-
fuse TO have Il thrust upon them az
par has forced even General Weyler to
recognize that the money question IL
superior 20 his decree and 10 abandon
his declared intention Of furnishing any
one who looked twice az those "Hhin
plasters."
Indeed Spain over his head suggests
that the bllletos be- accepted Ia custom
house with an increase In duties cor
responding TO the depreciation Of the
paper
The shopkcepors do not accept any
bllletes In many cases. or II they do,
the customer must pay twice the gold
price The billetc Is Just so much de-
preciatcd paper and the country will
not recognize II as anything else.
The plight Of Spain Is bad enough
without the rioting which would BE-
general n an attempt were made To
force this paper down the threats Of
men already grown sullon because Of
the dlsarirous and tagging military
policy Of General Wcylcr
No one here can see how Spain will
be able 10 carry much longer the anan-
cial burden with which she Is sad
died. and which Is increased tremen-
dously every month. Stll there are
Official announcements that the mill
ltary outlook Is ruscate. dcsnite The
fact that engagements are daily re-
ported and wounded soldiers carried
into the garrlsonod towns prove the
activity Of rebels In every province.
There are engagements. too. that are
not reported and these are the more
srious Three nights ago. 100 wounded
soldiers were carried into Regla by
rail on their way 10 hospitals and some
OF them died In the railroad station.
There has been no fight Of Importance
reported officially In this province Of
late but the arrival OF these men show
that the Spanish columns have been
ambushod by General Castillo with his
usual success. The hght was at Go.
veaud.
General woylcr IL In Santa Clara
again and his arrival there does not
we'll accord with the announcement he
made 80 recently that the province is
paciacd. Il may be that he heard the
samerumor which reached Havana. and
which was to the eject that mex Sa.
qua Ia Grande was threatened by a
concentration OF several thousand In.
surgon,s In the hills there, and an al.
tack was evidently medilated