The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-25

the landscape, out they are not 10 DC
considered as an element toward the
building up of the resources Of rural
Cuba. In spite Of the war. several
syndicates, with an eye to the future,
have lately purchased large tracts Of
land. Last winter a company of New
Englanders bought 5000 acres in the
beautiful Trinidad Valley, near San
tiago. They are not doing anything
with it now, but say they can afford to
wait for years and then realize heavy
interest on the money which they
invested.
AS to business enterprises on
smaller scale, they are innumerable
for men with little money, and more
energy. A few acres in market gar
dening, with their continuous crops
from one years end to another, would
perhaps yield the largest and quickest
returns for the smallest amount Of
capital. Chicken raising, too, has al
ways been strangely neglected in
dustry in Cuba. Fowls and eggs fig
ure conspicuously every day in the
Spanish American menu, but nobody
on the island has ever gone into the
business of supplying the demand on
a large scale, with incubators and
brooders, as is now done in the Uni
ted States.
All winter, before the present siege
began, eggs sold in Havana at a dollar
the dozen, and poultry 50 cents the
pound and wha, it is now, goodness
knows, with beef, at the last advices,
50 pound. A man with eyes in his
head and the business instinct of the
average American will see avenues
for profitable investments of money
and labor in every direction, SO soon
as peace is restored in this beautiful
island.
1t seems pity to take advantage of
other people misfortunes-but many
are the fine old casas in Havana and
othev cities which will be bought for
song. These stately palaces of i'm
poverished grandeur, with their mar
BILE floors and pillared corridors and
inner courtyards, their fountains and
palm trees, are fairly begging for pur-
chasers, owing to the financial dis
tress Of their owners.
1t goes particularly hard with the
proud hidalgoes to have to sell their
property to the hated Yankees, who
are looked upon as horde of greedy
shop-keepers.
If any nation under the sun has
shown herself more anxious for gain
ing money than Spain has since even
the earliest days Of the conquest we
should like to see it. Everywhere in
Spanish America you hear great
deal about the invincible valor of
Spain and the sordid character of the
Yankees. Their literature tells us
that Spanish patriotism is unconauer-
able, while North Americans love dol
lars more than country, and that when
the Litter seek to "meddle" in the
affairs of Cuba, illustrious Spain will
teach item lesson in international
manners.
A pamphlet, widely dist ibuted in
Havana not long ago, furnished rich
reading to the few Americans who re-
NAMED in the city. 1t says that in
the event of the aforesaid 'mcddling"
all Europe would rush to the rescue Of
Spain, "whose ever-glorious history
constitutes the grandest page in the
annals Of the world" 1t reminds the
money grasping Yankees that when it
comes to war, valor is necessary ele-
ment, and that they must not think
they can fight SPANS heroic soldiers
with dollars alone.
Then the LITTLE book goes IN 10 give
the denouement. 1t describes the in
vasion of Cuba by American troopS:
recounts battle after battle, in which
the immense superiority Of American
number is always overcome by the
'invincible valor Of our illustrious
army" And finally, after an unbro-
ken chain of military triumphs for
Spain, extending over a series Of
months, and eliminating in stun
ming defeat for the United States, the
"sordid charactered" Yankees humbly
sue for peace, pay Spain heavy in
demnity and withdraw from the
island, with many apologies for hav-
ing learned that Spain is unconquera
bic by reason of the superb valor of
her sons
Mr.. John Peterson, of Patoutvillc,
La was very aereeahlv surprised not