The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-16
MAY CAUSE DlSSENSION.
4 Circular issued BY . Cuban Which May
Lead to Trouble.
Nc SAYS THAT AMERICANS DECEIVED HIM
Ana calls Upon His Counvymsn 10
Be Rsady to Bear Arms
NJ Any Time.

Havana, July 14.-Many Cuban papers
Aaf1y deny the existence OF plots against
American visitors who remain here few
days and then return to the United States.
but there 10 undoubtedly considerable
element endeavorinx to SOW dissensions
among the Cubaus and using every means
to array them against the Americans. The
province OF Matanzas. which 10 supposed
to be the most peaceabls district. has sew
eral malcontents within its borders.
Recently 1000 leaflets were issued In
the city OF Matansas In the form OF an
address to the people in the following
vein: "Cubans. you men OF honor whom
Spanish officials respected and whom
fever and hunger only served to make
doubly strong, your mother country calls
you to make her stronger and grander be-
cause there are those who wish to humil-
tate her. You who havo been proved In
fray and hardship. you who have helped
to convert your family hearthstones into
bread clothing. medicine or arms; you
who have been ready to give your very
lives even when you would have left your
adored ones to q miserable orphanage, TO
know only the pain OF living by mental
toll, their beautiful eyes full of tears;
you whose women were born to be happy
only as their country freed; you, that
mother asks to be ready to hurl from
the country the crafty eagle. as you have
removed the naughty and hungry Span
ish lion.
Let one thought only be yours: so
long as our flag does not fiutter from Cape
Maysi to Cape San Antonio, there Will be
only desolation and vandalism for our
NJ In AAtA rtnh tpnl
wealth and our beauty. The Americans
deceive US. They tyranniBe us. They are
masters OF cur palaces and our forts. They
make display of wealth and power and
reduce us to the level of men without a
country and without faith.
No, thiE can not continue. The inter-
vening power must keep Its promises 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, II necessary, CON
vert their jewels into rifles and cannon, 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.
"Betancourt."
Ono 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 iniaming the passions OF those
who road 1t. scarcely points to any present
danger; still, in the opinion of men
prominent In Havana business circles, it
indicates some possibilities of the future
Miss Clara Barton of the Red Croes
society will leave for the United States
tomorrow She has established twelve
asylums In this province, having OBJ
tanned as many buildings from the mayors.
All are thronged with children, mostly
orphan reconcentrados. About 500 are now
under care In the various institutions,
where they are kept clean and we'll fed
Cuban women brought their sewing ma
chimes and made the necessary clothing
for the orphans, the Red Cross society
furnishing the cloth and the military au-
thorities supplying the retions. The
larger children are given tools and seeds,
together with a small plot OF land to be-
TILED; and many are already eating their
own lettuce, radIshes and potatoes.
Ell Diaro de la Marina complains mat
contracts are not given for public i'm
provements which are recognized as neces-
sary. II says:
"'The American Intervention will leave
behind the record OF a sad, sickly and in
competent regime OF administrators, who
have proved themselves wholly ncompe-
tent TO grasp the situation and to take
advantage OF the opportunity to throw
new life into the country and new energy
into the people.
Other papers say that tho American au-
thorities are doing all that can be done
and point out that such utterances as those
OF Ell Diaro only hamper the good itken-
tion and work of the Americans.