The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-15
RUIN AWAITS CUBA ELSE
AMERICANS DECEIVE AND TI-
RAN\IZE OVER THE PEOPLE.
This Address Scattered Throughout Matanzas
CITY is Calculated 10 Inname the Pas
sons Of the People, and Breed
Trouble in the Future.

Havana, July 14.-Many Cuban pa
pers fatty deny the existence of plots
against American visitors who remain
here few days and then return to the
United States, but there is undoubtedly
considerable element who endeavor
to SOW dissensions among the Cubans
and use every means to array them
against the Americans. Even the PROV
ince of Matanzas, which is supposed
to be the most peaceabie district, has
such malcontents within its borders.
Recently 1000 leaflets were issued in
the city of Matanzas in the form of an
address to the people i'll the following
vein:
"Cubans, you men of honor whom
Spanish bullets respected and whom
fever and hunger Only served to make
doubly strong, your mother country calls
you to make her stronger and grander
because there are those who wish TO
humiliate her. You who have been
proved in fray and hardships, you VINO
have helped to convert your family
hearthstones into bread, clothing, medi-
cine or arms; you who have been ready
to give your very lives, even when you
would laye left your adored ones to a
miserable orphanage, to know only the
pain of living by menial toll. their beau
tiful eyes full of tears; you whose wo-
men were born to be happy only as their
country is free-you, that neither asks
to be ready to hurl from the country
the crafty Eagle, as you have removed
the naughty and hungry Spanish Lion.
Let one thought ouly be ours. SO
long as our flag does not fiutter from
Cape Maisi TO Cape San Antonio there
will be only ruin, desolation and van
dalism for our fertile fields, our rich
treasures, our wealth and beauty. The
Americans deceive us. They tyrannize
over us. They are masters of our palaces
and forts. They make a display of
wealth and power and reduce us to the
level Of men without Il country and
without faith.
mo. This cannot continue. The
intervening power must keep its promi-
ses or give quantities of blood to pay
for its ambition. Be ready TO Answer
the cry of the country. While we men
do our duty, let our sisters, if necessary.
convert their jewels into rifles and can
non. as they have already done. Let
them at the same time make bandages
of lint to staunch the blood of liberty.
There will be with you all the soul of
your chief.
(Signed) "BETa aNCOURT
One copy Of this pronunciamento is in
the possession of General Ludlow. The
name Betancourt is common among the
Cubans; and, while an address like this.
though inflaming the passions OF those
who read it, scarcely points to any
present danger, still, in the opinion of
men prominent in Havana business cir
cles. it indicates some possibilities of
the future.
Miss Clara Barton. of the Red Cross
Society. will leave for the United STATES
tomorrow. She has established twelve
aSylums in the Province. having obtained
as many buildings from the mayors. All
ar. thronged with children mostly or
phan reconcentrados. About three hun
dred are now under care in the various
institutions. where they are kept clean
and well-fed.