Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-19
SERIOUS SITUATION IN CUBA.
Protracted Drouth Has Destroyed
the Crops and People Are suffer-

Protracted Drouth Has Destroyed
tho Crops and People Are suffer-
ing.
New York, Sept 1s-william Willis
Howard, general manager of the Cuban
industrial relief fund, who has recently
returned from Cuba, says:
Cuba is in pitiful state. Instead of
La rainy season, Cuba has had a drought.
Not since 1914 has there been such long
continued dry weather during the sum
ner. The result has been disastrous.
The United States weather bureau re-
ports that all small crops have been
ruined. Sugar cane has been so dam
aged that the crop next year will be less
than the crop ground this year. The
most distressing feature of the drought
| is the destruction of the corn crop. Even
under favorable circumstances the corn
crop would have been pitifully small
flor it was planted in dribiets here and
There, on the outskirts of the towns by
| poor people who had no means of doing
Eany better. The weather bureau reports
show that the best of the corn crop in
flew favored localities will yield not
4 more than 10 per cent. On our relief
farms we have better corn than any
/ that have seen in Cuba, due, no doubt,
Ito the fact that We put more labor on
Il the growing crop than any one else was
able to do. We have one field that wilt
give full crop, another that will give
three quarters of a crop. and third
that will produce from third to a half
Business in the cities is desperately
: dull. The hotels are empty, restaurants
are idle. and all small affairs are life
less. Large business concerns are
scraping along as best they may, in the
hope that the future Of the island may
be definitely settled. The gradual with
! drawal Of the American troops has ma
lerially lessened the amount of money
lin circulation and the hectic flush of I'M
real prosperity which many perosns
, mistook for genuine prosperity has died
TOUT There can be no return of prosper
Iity in Cuba until the farmers have been
81 helped back to their homes. In the
! country the desolation wrought by wal
and Weyler still continues almost with
out abatement. The big planters have
been able to do only a little toward this
!, rehabilitation of their properties. The,
. have as yet been unable to resume OPP
{ creations. Money will not be forthcom-
fling until the political conditions are
. settled.
g THE sugar and tobacco growers favor
d annexation as business measure. Free
trade with the United States woult
; serve just as we'll. Cuban politician:
II and office seekers want independence
]. Any method of giving them offices
g would satisfy them. The bulk Of tn
people want only chance to earn liv
& ing. Anything other than Spanish rul
e will suit them.
ANY one who denounces the Cuban
j. as a dirty lazy, worthless people \
1t guilty of SANDER. Any one who assert
e that the Cuban will not work speak
= without knowledge of the subject. Gu
y bans come to our relief farms in swarm
s. to beg for days work. Not one ha
20 yet come to beg for food. Our relic
farms are giving support wholly or i
ar part to about $50 persons, of whor
h about 500 are dependent women an
children. We have workers in GU
re- fields who should be in the hospita
l. Some of them have insisted on work
10 ing until they dropped in their track
lie through sheer fatigue"
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