New-York tribune., 1899-11-17
LUDLOW'S VIEWS ON CUBA
HE SPEAKS OF THE NATIVES AS A RACE
OF ORPHANS.
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE CHAMBER
OF coMMERcE-THE SPEAKER RE-
sEMBLEs DEWEY.


p-,,oa,or General william Ludlow. Governor OF
Havana. addressed audience OF more than TWO
bupdred persons at the Chamber OF Commerce yes
terdav The affair was given under the auspices Oh
tho trustees OF the Cuban Orphan Fund' OF WHICH
General =. V. Greene who preceded General Lud-
low as Governor of Havana. IL chairman 'ene'a'
Greene presided at the meeting yesterday
Many remarked the striking resemblance Eeherai
Ludlow bears to Admiral Dewey. He Is younger
hut possesses the same quiet modest expression OF
countenance Approaching him well known pup
lie spirited woman said: 49,,
General do you know you look strangely IKE
Admiral Dewey. only younger. OF course s"e
added.
"Yes. perhaps / seem younger in looks, rephea
GsneraI Ludlow but at the present time not
younger in spirits"
General Ludlow outlined the work accomplSheu
bv the Americans In Cuba since the close OF the
war and told OF the plans TO establish permanent
government in the island He then told OF inc
work Of the Sanitary Commission and the organ
lzation OF the municipal police force OF Havana
He said the death rate OF Havana in October last
was 1866 10 the thousand. where In the o'ty Oh
WASHINGTON for the same month the death rate
was 2S per cent to the thousand
General Ludlow continued. saying In part:
We solved two great problems to our own CON
vctons First that yellow reye tbat ike tvphod it
is propaRated bv NTH. The Cubans as people
have been misjudged ana many .nlo'aheh ipS"' ~
them have reached America. At one time we
thought them only half human and haif clvlnZea'
They are not as are. They are Latn ana De.
Hong 10 a dying race. which seems not capaDIe OF
reconstruction as stable people as IL tne AnslU, ,,,
Saxon. They. however, possess virtues which VIII WI,
develop under the guardianship or the Ohited
States. 49,. -, III,
their machetes and go to the woods, and then serd
an ''enunciamento" that they will have nothing 70
how to fill public office. We will have to teach each
them that; they never knew what 1t was 70 hold
n public position. I apprehend II VIII be long
term OF guardianship. AT the present time mt
To grant them universal suffrage would be to
undo all the good work that has been done ny TINS
Governmental would be Ike leaving II to-day and
letting 1t drift as Hayti No. 2 The Cubans as
dred years they have had mother VINO mas
proven more of a stepmother They are realiz,
ing the design OF the American people anu
the problem is getting easier every day.
General Ludlow said there had been no public In
struction OF anybody during the war. The Span
iards he said purposely neglected the education
of the Cubans. He concluded by saying that the
future of Cuba rested with its orphans. and the
orphans must be taken Of He thought that
aid from the American people. enough and judi
ciousy distributed in the way Of primary educa-
ton, would be better in the start. and then this
country can think Of establishing universities and
academies of art.
Some OF the prominent people who met General
Ludlow were:
Charles w Gould Robert Bacon. DR.. George f.
Brewer. John Clafin. William e. Dodge DR.. VIII
James T. Gardiner, Charles Stewart Smith Will
lam T. Wardwe. Robert c. Ogden, William NJ.
Sloan, DR.. Moses Allen Starr and II. t. Nelson.