Evening star., 1897-04-17
THE CUBANS WILL WIN
Opinion Of Mr.. Reinhardt, Who Lived There
for twenty-five Years.
Policy is 10 Exhaust Spain Financially
Thinks Judge Day Will
BE Lied To.

Louis Reinhardt, an American citizen.
but for. twenty-five years in business i'm
Cuba, is in Washir gtop. stopping with his
| brother, T. B. Reinhardt. Mr. Reinhardt
has just arrived here. He did not come
| direct from Havana, however, having been
| ir Haiti for four months. He went to Hail
| from Havana, where his family, with the
exception of his Oldest son, is now living
Mr.. Reinhardt vas Baltimore man
| when he went to Cuba, twenty-five years
| ago. For many years he has been a part
ner in large machinery house in Ha-
vana. The firm has been unable to do
much business for several years. owing to
the revolution. Mr.. Reinhardt owns a good
deal of property in Cuba. but he doesn't
know. when he will go back, as he re-
ceived gentle hint that it would be safer
for him outside of the island.
VIII Result i'm Cuban Independsnce.
Mr.. Refnhardt is an interesting talker.
He is an ardent sympathizer with the in
surgents, and expresses the positive belief
that they will win He was in Cuba dur
ing the last rebellion. and said to Star
reporter that there was no comparison be-
tween that ard the struggle now in pro-
srcss. The former revolution, he said was
little more than an uprising of armed
bands. The present revolution has all the
elements of hrst-class var kMr. Rein
Eardt does not rely Ispon- Cuban arms TO
gain victory for the Cause Ire 4hinks the
aerr;hie lei financial condition Of SPAN brought
on py the war and troubles at home win
result IN independence, just what N hinted
at IN the latest advices from the Islands.
II don't think there is any other outcome
OF the war;, said Mr.. Reinhardt to q Star
n foy -
1 believe the Spaniards will give up the
struggle before the end of the year. They
maven the money to continue. They have
aiIeaoy mortgaged their customs receipts.
! oon oeheve the struggle will last longer
than the present dry season. which will
end about June or before. The rainy sea-
son sets in then. and the Spaniards will
be unable to do anything. They have i'm
mense cost with no gains and I believe
they VIII give up in despair. That is the
only solution. 1t is impossible for the
Cubans to live under Spanish rule any
longer, and they will never submit IN In
The Cubans have never intended 70 hr,nI
the war to q close by a pitched hattie
Their policy is to bleed the Spanish govern
ment to death financially and everything
shows their good sense Not only is the
Spanish government being exhausted imam
ciaiiy, out the patience OF the people i'm
spain is becoming exhausted, and internal
troubles are threatened each day The peo-
pie there are becoming tired OF seeing SOL
diers sent to Cuba to die from disease
Young fellows eighteen years old are among
those sent from Spain to fight I'm Cuba
Many neve see home again.s When / left
Havana 1t was estimated that there were
$1,000 sick and wounded soldiers in the
hospitals of Havana"
Replying to a question about the Spanisb
again starting up, Mr. Reinhardt said. ~
don't believe there is any truth in this
III there is any grinding of cane going
on the INSURGENTS are being paid to allow
the work. That is the only way the mills
can be run" -
Will Lie to Judge Day.
Touching upon the coming visit of Judge
Day to Havana to investigate the case of
the death of Ruiz, Mr.. Reinhardt said he
doubted il the American government would
ever get the facts of the case. He believed
that Judge Day would be lied to from the
time he landed in Havana until he left
why. there are 10000 Spaniards in Ha-
vana," he said, who can be bought for 10
cents each to swear to anything I'm the
matter 20 ..---... ..
Mr.. Reinhardt said that the feeling i'm
Havana against Americans had been bitter
Not long ago." he said, You couldn't 90
into a coffee house where Spaniard con-
gregate without hearing the most vile
abuse of America and her people The peo-
pie OF this country are referred to as hogs
and are contemptuously alluded to as
towards" -.-
Mr.. Reinhardt spoke of the fact that the
people IN Havana, especially Americans and
other foreigners, are practically isolated
from the balance of the. world He said
that 10 news was ever given out of what
was going on in the island, and the Ameri-
cans frequently got their first news from
American newspapers. .
Mr.. Reinhardt says that Gen. Lee has
worked hard and energetically In the in
terest Of Americans, in the face of great
difficulties.
Speaking Of the barbarity of the Span-
iards to captured Cubans, Mr.. Reinhardt
spoke OF the different methods of the two
forces. When the Cubans capture Spanish
soldiers, he said, they turn them loose
without harm. The Cubans, he said, never
use violence except when they capture
Cubans who are traitors 10 their country
They quickly get rid of them.
Mr.. Reinhardt has been Of great service
to American citizens on several occasions
He is well known to a number of news
paper correspondents, and aided one of
them to escape from Havana In the dis
guise of a sailor.