The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-06

we were fighting the rebels two years
ago, and killing was going on every
day; they interfere now only because
peace is almost established. They
want to take Cuba for themselves. And
so they say they only want to make it
independent-to give it up to the rebel
government. But they refuse to recog-
nize the rebel government. Why do
they refuse? Because they want the
island themselves. The Maine, you
say, is the real cause Of the war? No;
the pretended cause. The Maine was
blown up from inside by the careless
ness of the Yankee officers. They know
that well. That is why they refused
arbitration when we offered them full
examination and arbitration by indie
pendent arbitrator. We appealed to
the arbitration of Europe. They re-
fused. We offered them any proper
reparation and damages. They re-
fused. They want blood. or, rather,
they want Cuba, Besides, they want
the boast of conquering Spain, and
they know Spain is poor in money, but
they forget she is not poor in men.
''You ask me if think Spain has ru-
ined Cuba. l do not know; think the
rebels have ruined it. But, of course,
all the officials, from the captain-g gene
| raj down, come out to Cuba to fill their
| pockets at the expense of Cuba or of
Spain, and they generally go back rich.
After all, that is exactly what the en-
pleados do in all Spain, only you can
make much more in Cuba. If the gov
| eminent find any needy opponent
troublesome they give him post in
| Cuba where he occupies himself with
getting rich. There is lots of money to
be made in Cuba even now. This is the
reason why the rebellion has dragged
on in the past; the officials made so
| much money by it, they did not wish to
| stop it. After he had made some mon
| ey General Weyler tried to stop it, but
| he only stirred up the rebels, and made
many of the paciticos become rebels by
| the way he treated them. Look at the
| millions that have been given to make
roads and fortifications in Cuba. Who
| has taken them? There are no roads
| made, no fortizcations; but the officials
| have made fortunes. That is our Span
| ish way. Besides, we put off whatever
we can from day to day until to-mor-
row; but tomorrow with us never be-
| comes to-day. We are always too late.
| If we had given the Cubans three years
| ago all we have offered now, autonomy,
amnesty, they would have made peace;
but it is too late now"
Then you think Spain will lose
| Cuba?'
Yes, think the Yankees will steal
| it. Certainly they mean to take it, and
we are not ready. We shall begin to
| fortify Havana, l often said, when the
Yankees attack it, not before. To think
of those hogs of Yankees drives me
wild. They don't want Cuba, of course;
| that is why they come to take it. Yes,
we shall lose Cuba, l repeat; we are
not ready! Our officers have made no
preparations At Santiago, when / was
| CHARTERED there, saw, ! think, fifty
old brass guns in the Notifications, and
| they bore the date 1855. What use will
they be against quick-firers? We shall
| have to go out of Cuba. At Havana
| there is one battery of good guns, put
| in by Weyler-nothing more. Nothing
| is ready.
''It is all the fault of our rulers-they
have robbed Spain and robbed Cuba,
and left both defenceless. There is no
hope till we get a republic. We want
man like Jean Prin at our head.
| Why, we have buried nearly two hum
bred thousand men in Cuba in the last
three years, mostly from fever and bad
food. You see, wear flannel next my
skin / learned that from the Cubans.
| They all wear flannel, and escape the
fever or have it lightly. Our poor SOL
diers are dressed in linen in the drip
ping and feverous swamps of the man
igua in the rainy season, when the air
you breathe is full of fever. The result
is they die by the hundred daily. It is
very healthy, the flannel, but of course
our government does not provide it,
"Does Spain wish to keep Cuba %
1.-THE officers and empleados do, in or
der to fill their pockets, but Spain is
sick of Cuba. There is hardly a village
| that has not some of it's number dead in
Cuba, hardly village where some one
has not come back a wreck, as I have
| to tell his friends about Cuba But we
will not give up Cuba to those thieving
| Yankees without a fight. Those Yam
kee hogs have insulted us, and we must
! fight them to the death. If it were
only Cuba Libre,' we should not SC
much mind that, but we know the Yam
KEGS mean to steal the island and make
much money out Of it. Look you, the
Yankee hog loves nothing so much as
money; everybody knows that. He
never did anything for any country I'M
less with the hope of making money
He calls himself a Christian, but his
God is Don Dinero' (money);" and
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as only Spaniard can command, the
ex-soldier got UP and wished me good
night.--Saturday Review.
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