Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-11

vana society was on exhibition. 1t was
a heterogeneous collection Of humanity
such as one might never see in the
states. The theaters along the Prado
levidently We're drawing their share OF
patronage. Gay assemblages here and
there were announced to be public balls
In full blast, while restaurants serving
4 out tamarindo and other light drinks
were omnipresent. 1t was hard to rea-
lie that this was the city which a few
months before had been the seat of the
most terrible tragedy of the century.
| Yet this is Havana-Spanish, Partisan,
European, but not strictly Cuban. Ha-
vana is largely foreign city, in which
| the life and character of the native Gu
ban is kept in subsection. To be sure
some American tourists who have lived
a few days at Havan would have US
| believe that the Havanese is fair rep
sentative of the Cuban. But not so.
Seventy-five per cent of the native Gu
| ban population of the island is outside
of the capital. Go away from the sea-
port cities, out into the provinces
among the rural population, and you
meet with a very different type of char
acter and life. l have mingled freely
among these rural Cubans, who were
| once prosperous farmers and plantation
owners. and have found them kind,
| courteous, hospitable and willing to
| work. and many of them bright and in
telligent. Let it be remembered that
| these people have given the United
States navy two of its best civil en-
gineers. and that the best authority in
| America on yellow fever is Cuban
With very meager school advantages of
| their own, it has been the pride of this
| people to have many of their sons edu-
Gated in the schools of France Eng
| land and the United States. One of
| Cuba's crying needs today is a thor
Tough, competent system of common
/ schools. When we think of the wars
with which this land has been cursed,
of the wholesale plumber to which this
| people have been subjected, of the cruel
and corrupt officials by which they
| have been oppressed. the only wonder is
that the native Cubans have not all
been eNterminated long ago. No wonder
we find most of them wretchedly poor,
with scarcely food enough to keep
| themselves and their families alive
| And yet. reduced as they are. morning
after morning they come to the relief
/ farms at Mocha at daylight ready for
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