The times., 1898-12-28
Why ThereIs Prejudice Against
American Authority.
GOSPEL OF INDEPENDENCE
II Is Being Preached in Many Cases With
uI-wfll and Bad Resuits-A Hatred o
:, wish Traders-Differencc in Man
ners and observation-disclosures Affected
Havana Merchants Feel Gloomy.

iards. In the disturbance in Cerro Ameri-
can blood was let, but, curiously, the blame
is placed upon the Cubans.
I'VE think" observed Corporal Mullin.
Of the detail of the Second Illinois, which
came to headquarters to report, that the
Cubans are trying to set the Spaniards and
the Americans onto one another. They
think We will take their part when they
raise a riot. But we soldiers have nothing
against the Spanish soldiers. We drink
together and We eat together, and We talk
together-as well as we know how-not
very well, but we get along. United States
soldiers are not mixed up in these rows.
II anybody connected with the army is
mixed up in them it is the 'mule-skinners
hard drinking teamsters the Government
has hired but who are not enlisted men.
We had TO turn out a guard last night TO
get some mule-skinners away from trouble.
They had been drinking aguardente. Now
they are in the guardh house"
Here in Havana the difference between
the manner of the Americans and the man
ner of the Cubans toward the defeated
enemy is most marked. II is causing the
Cubans 10 ask, reproachfuliy;
DO you like the Spanish better than
you like us?"
The manner of the Americans is wholly
to the credit of the national character. and
gives further bearing TO the suggestion
that the unfailing courtesy and gentleness
of officers and men toward their fallen
foe has exhibited in them finer and rarer
qualities of manhood than it was supposed
they had had occasion 10 cultivate.
And yet ii ought not to be looked upon
as phenomenal that you do not taunt and
insult the man you have beaten in fair
stand-up fight. 1t is, though, in Cuba; and
because the commission at Vadado refused
the request of Cuban generals TO inter
fere and protect Cuban officers after they
had behaved unlike officers under truse,
the Cuban suspiciousness OF Americans has
increased.
Preaching Independence.
commercial traveller who returned last
night from towns on the south coast re-
ports that while the business people are
asking for closer relationship with the
States, the active insurrectionists, there or
elsewhere, are preaching Cuba as independ-
ent, and threaten trouble if the United
States occupation endures too long. 1t will
endure with the present troops until
Spring when ii is expected that the volun-
teers among them will be mustered out,
regular troops, TO be authorized by Con-
gress. coming 10 take their places in the
gnrrisons
Business men in Havana consider the
outlook dismal. 1t is no government at
all that you are undertaking." they say,
only military domination. We are going
away" In this they are not entirely in
earnest, for their fears of the future are
concerned also with the smarter methods
of the Yankees who are acquiring theaters
stores, railways and banks 10 compete with
theirs.
II all provincial governors do as well as
Gen. Davis, governor of Pinar del Rio, has
begun to do, the disaffection may cause no
disturbance of any consequence He has a
battalion of the Two Hundred and Second
New York in Pinar del Rio town, and his
sensible proclamation and his diplomatic
behavior since arriving have left the ex-
tremists with nothing 10 complain of.
That province has many Spaniards; they
are giving aid to the new governor, and
by employing and promptly paying many
of the Cuban soldiers. Gen. Davis has
recommended himself and his country TO
their opinion. In dealing with the Cubans
the requirements for those in authority are
largely diplomatic-that is why it Is re-
GREETED that Gen. Greene is not 10 remain
as governor of Havana. He is a West
Pointer who has been also in civil life,
and he is in addition a gentleman with
force and manner.
Ant1-Sem1tfc freludtces.
Merchants view with special apprehen-
sion the influx of Hebrews. There has been
only one Jewish commercial house in Hav-
ana, and ii got along by being connected
with, ! think German steamship COM
pany. Spaniards and Cubans simply would
not do business with them. When a New
York or Tampa or London tobacco man
came here to buy stock, if he was Jew,
he pc n n n "a kah
purchases. Nobody would deal with him
direct
Now the hotels are full of these bustling
people, who are relying upon the change of
flags to do away with the prejudice. 1T
is not" the editor of the Marina explains,
"a religious prejudice. Their faith has
nothing to do with the case We do not
like their personality, that's ALL and We re-
fuse TO deal with them
The absence of suitable and sufficient
schools has constrained the German colony,
numbering about sixty or seventy, to found
''El Colegio Aieman en- la Habana. 1t
took almost no effort at all on the part OF
the German consul tAlr. Falcke who used
TO be consul in New York; TO collect among
members of the German Society enough
money 10 start this school for the chill
dren of the subjects of their nation" No
obstacle is placed in the way of admission
for children of other nationalities when it
causes no prejudice to the German charac-
ter Of the institution.
For German children the tuition has
been fixed at Sc gold monthly: two chill
dren from a family may be sent for 50
monthly, and three for $l2 Children not
German must pay 81, 50 and So more. Two
classes are being taught-in the elemen-
tai, arithmetic, history. English, reading
writing, geography, make up the course,
and there are object lessons, and once a
week singing In the superior c.ass the
lessons are arranged for German, arithme-
tic, Spanish, English geography. history,
singing and "Naturkunde," English being
the only study for every day. Although
strongly Spanish in their sympathies up
TO the end of the war and after, the Ger
mans are now preparing for annexation
TO the States.
American schools.
There is a movement for the establish
ment of an American school, but this has
not yet realized its object, as Americans
are expecting that their own public school
system soon will be introduced here. The
Spanish municipal schools are, like the
custom house and postoffice, suffering from
government delinquency in the matter of
salaries. They have been always short of
teachers, even though pupils education
not being compulsory are few. On the
whole island there are but two normal
schools. In these the Cuban women have
been Disseminated against, in examina-
tions and in granting certificates and there
are not enough Spanish women to go
around. Some people cite this as an in
stance of Spanish injustice, but the same
practice goes on in California. where one
is told it is impossible for an Easterner