Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-27
GOMEZ SAYS GIFT OF s3,ooo,oOo WAS
A MISTAKE.
DEMoRkLIzED THE SOLDIERS
HAVANA wORKINGMEN ARE IN VERY
BAD CONDITION.
Greatest Need Is for Glenn, Cheap
Houses-Appointment of a SIayor
by Lot Objected To-Mayor
of Santiago Wants
TO Resign.

HAVANA, July 26.-In an interview with
General Gomez, printed in La Lucha, the
Cuban commander was quoted as saying:
Never has a plague more affecting fall
en- upon Cuba than the $30OO,OO0 asked from
President Mckinley for the Cuban SOL
diers. The money has been the cause of
Ill will among those who. by right and JUS
Iice, should be -eternally united.
The history of the men is curious. It
was thought at first that II ought not to
have been received, as 1t was dishonor
10 the Cubans. The aspect is changed now,
and II should cause pain to see wandering
through Havana, soldiers begging for what
1t was supposed they would refuse with
serenity.
The formation of the supplementary lists
or persons incapacitated in the war and
the work Of payment has already cost 5000
This money was furnished by Governor
General Brooke, as the Cubans do not
possess the ground upon which they tread.
Those who do not know the work and the
expense involved are naturally impatient
and hold responsible someone who in no
way helped to get the money nor asked
anyone TO receive 1t.
Those whose names appear on the sup
Elementary lists should not be paid before
those who are on the original lists, SO as
TO preserve order
AS the money was the gift of the Amer
ican government, am panied by the inter-
est shown by my soldiers, who were train
ed to go hungry on their march TO liberty.
The republic will pay them, but when is un-
certain. lmpatience viii not further mat
ters."
FL Diario de la Marino says editorially
sn to-day's issue that the working classes
in Havana are in very bad condition, the
cost of living in the city is high, owing to
bsa rtpax.
classes having raised prices. The upper
classes have been able to get money easily,
the paper says, on account of the natural
richness Of the Cuban soil, but the neces-
stiles of life. including the securing of
clean, comfortable houses, are out of the
reach of the poor, who, therefore, are
forced TO live under bad, unhealthful con-
hitions. although they are fairly well paid.
Continuing, the article says: Havana
city was built for rich people, and reforms
should be inaugurated, modelled upon the
American plan of building clean, cheap
houses for the working people, with the
prospects that they may become the own
crs of the same by paying a small pre-
Inium, thus encouraging thrift and self
help; The cubans, SO far; have not
Americans really wish the country to
progress, with some guarantee that, on
effort on their part, the Cubans themselves
ter:
Societies of the building and loan sort
Should be organized under the indirect con-
troll of the federal or insular authorities,
and should build in the suburbs homes for
honest working people on the public land.
Once this plan was started, money could
be obtained here at a low rate of interest
10 carry ii on. If no other plan We're prac-
ticable, ready made cottages should be
brought from America and put together
here. Now is the opportunity for the
Cuban labor leaders to agitate for the
building of factories on the cooperative
plan.
A deputation from Guines visited General
Brooke to-day for the purpose of OBJ
jecsng 10 the appointment of Senior Her
pandez as mayor of the town by General
Reveira, the civil governor of the province.
They said they did not object to the man
so much to the system of selection, un-
der which a few names were put into hat
and one was drawn out. 1t proved to be
that OF Senior Hernandez. who received the
4 prominent official here to-day said. re-
earding the annexationist papers started at
Puerto Principe a. few days ago that two
things were TO be considered, first that no
tropical country has ever successfully ad-
Ininistered government without everlast-
ing fights and revolutions, and, secondly.
that no, country had ever successfully
colonized a tropical country, citing in the
latter connection England and India and
The West Indies. The official added that
England had merely sent good men to In
dia and the West Indies for term of years
and was continually sending new blood to
.'n," said the official, 1.-The Cubans are
unit for self-government they are equally
unfit for statehood. The sentiment of the
Cubans desiring annexation is probably in
favor of statehood or nothing"
The Independent sharply criticises the ac-
tion of Senior Desverine, Cuban secretary
of finance, in not explaining his delay in
dealing with the petition of holders of
mortgages on Cuban plantations for a mod
ftcation OF the insular decree suspending
their foreclosure, which petition was pre-
sented at Washington and referred TO Gen.
eral Brooke's cabinet, accompanied by ia
Norable recommendations.
Senor Bacardi, mayor of Santiago, has
forwarded to Governor General Brooke his
resignation of the mayoralty, asking that
St be Immediately accepted and stating that
both General Wood, the military governor
of the department of Santiago, and General
Castillo, the civil governor, have refused
10 accept 1t.
The temperature in Havana at o'clock
this afternoon was Sc degrees.
Beer INSPECTION Bill MAY he Void