The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-17
!. !: 4 CUBAN OFFICIAL
Suspected Of Having Inspired .
Revolutionary Circular.
AMERICANS ARE NOT CULTURED.

This Is the View Expressed by a Lead-
ing Havana Newspaper-''The Span
iards and Cubans Have Been Taught
in Nobler SCHOOL,"
Havana, July 1.-THE pronuncia-
mento recently issued In the city of
Matanzas. signed "Betancourt" and
calling upon Cubans to prepare to hurl
from the country the crafty eagle"
as they had removed the naughty
and hungry Spanish lion," is now be-
lieved by many to have been the pro-
ductlon Of the civil governor of Ma
tanzas. The reasons for this view are
not very convincing, but Senior Betan-
court has not positively denied the
authorship, and 1t is notoTiAps that he
has expressed almost identical senti-
ments in the Havana cafes on different
occasions before American officers. He
once used language closely resembling
that of the proclamation" in the
presence of an American brigadier
general and an American colonel.
Both officers believe 1t quite prob
able that he wrote the appeal. II not
its author then, in their judgment, he
was cognizant of 1t, and agreed to tho
use Of his name. Many Cuban officers
of high rank are also satisfied that
Senior Betancourt was in some way in
timately related to the publication and
circulation Of the address to the peo-
pie Of Matanzas. General Wilson, mill
tary governor of Santa Clara
department, will doubtless ask the
civil governor for an explanation in
case there is no denial from him.
A Cuban major called at the palace
Saturday to ask an interview with the
governor general, whom he said he
would ask to give him an appointment
in the customs house. Lieutenant Cas-
tie, of General Brooke's staff, informed
him that he must make his application
in the usual way, setting forth his
qualifications and submitting GER
tificate of good moral character. To
this the Cuban officer replied that he
had earned the position by fighting for
the revolution, and that II he did not
get 1t he would take to the woods, as
several Others had done.
During the afternoon another appfi-
cant, a negro lieutenant, insisted on
seeing General Brooke, in order to
make personal demand for SIS. He
said he needed the money and insisted
upon waiting. After an hour or so the
man, who looked fat and happy, asked
Lieutenant Castle for the loan of ten
cents.
Ell Diario De La Marina says: IF
the human ideal is material interest,
then the United States possesses the
highest form of civilization, but, thank
God, the Spaniards and Cubans have
been taught in a nobler school. The
predominating influence in the United
States is capital. Monopoly, coupled
with the use of machinery, has only
served in the United States to curb per-
sonal intellectual endeavor, to disap-
point such ambitions and to make cul-
ture and knowledge hardly worth the
candle. 1t is only necessary to glance
through the columns of the American
newspapers in order to find letters and
interviews from returned officers which
have gradually changed the entire
American sentiment toward Cuba
While the Americans may be richer,
stronger more active and more bust
nesslike than ourselves, they cannot
claim to be cultured, not even to the
degree of Spain's Cuban offspring"