The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-15
MAY CAUSE DlSSENSION
A Circular issued by a Cuban Which May
Lead to Trouble.
He SAYS THAT AMERICANS DECEIVED HIN
BE Ready TO Bear Arms
mt Any Time.

Havana, July 14.--Many Cuban paper!
natly deny the existence OF plots against
American visitors who remain here few
Gays and then return TO the United States
put there is undoubtedly considerable
element endeavoring to sow dissensions
among the Cubans and using every means
TO array them against the Americans. The
province OF Matanzas, which is supposed
10 be the most peaceable district, has sew
eral malcontents within it's borders.
Recently 1000 leaflets were issued in
the city of Matanzas in tho 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-
late her. You who have been proved in
fray and hardship, you who have helped
to convert your family hearthstones into
bread, clothing, medicine or arms; you
VINO have been ready to give your very
lives even when you would have left your
adored ones to miserable orphauage, to
know only the pain of living by mental
toll, their beautiful eyes fun of tears
you whose women were born to he 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 you:s; 80
long as our flag does not flutter from Cape
Maysi to Cape San Antorio, there will be
nd l,Ite FAr
fertile fields. our rich treasures. our
wealth ana our beauty The Americans
deceive us. They tyrannize us. They arc
masters of cur palaces and orr forts. They
make display of wealth and po,/ar and
reduce us to the level of men without
country and without faith.
No, thir can not continue. The inter-
vening power must keep its promises CIR
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, If 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.
One copy OF this pronunciamento is IN
the possession of General Ludlow. The
name Betancourt is common among the
Cubanr; and while an address like this.
though inflaming the passions of those
who read it, scarcely points to any present
Hanger; still, in the opinion OF men
prominent in Havana business circles i.
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
asyums in this province, having OBJ
tanned as many buildings from the mayors.
All are thronged with children, mostly
orphan reconcentrados. About 300 are now
under care in the various institutions,
where they are kept clean and well fed.
Cuban women brought their sewing me
chimes and made the necessary clothing
for the orphans, the Red Cross society
furnishing the cloth and the military au-
thori,ies supplying the rations The
larger children are given tools and seeds (
together with a small plct 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. 1t says:
THE American Intervention will leave
behind the record OF sad sickly and in
competent regime Of administrators who !
have proved themselves wholly incompe-
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 the American au-
horities are doing all that can be done
and point out that such utterances as those
II FL Diaro only hamper the good inIen-
ion and work Of the Americans.