Washington sentinel., 1899-03-11
Capitalists and Bo nd Sharks at
Work.

Senior Gonzala de Quesada, rep
reSentative OF the Cuban Junta, the
American Government has never
offered A sum of money to General
Gomez with which to discharge
the claims OF the Cuban soldiers.
and except for the published fakes
given out by company Of Amer
Ican capitalists which is endeavor-
ing to engineer a wholesale bond
issue. the Cuban Assembly has
never favorably contemplated any
such financial scheme. IL has
never been expected, according to
Senior QuesRda, that the United
States Government would Tecog-
nize financial obligations issued by
the Cuban Assembly. even though
that body represented the whole
people OF Cuba, and the present
Assembly Of the Cuban army now
in session near Havana has neither
the power nor the desire to favor
a Cuban bond issue.
Senor Quesada said to the SEN
TINEL representative that com
pany oil American capitalists. in its
endeavors to induce the American
Government to guarantee a bond
issue made by the Assembly of the
Cuban army, has misrepresented
matters. This company has offered
to float $4,000. 900 for the Assem-
bly,, demanding in payment oyer
SI8, 900, 900 worth cf bonds. Mr..
Quesada said:
The United States has never
promised General Gomez the sum
of s., 900 with which to pay
the Cuban army. ! brand the
statement published broadcast
throughout the country that if the
Assembly accepted the offer oil
So, ,ooo, 900 an additional $40, ,ooo,-
600 would be advanced, as an in
famous lie. ! have just returned
from Cuba on a mission to Cen
eral Gomez and l know whereof |
speak. have seen the statement
that the above offer was made
through the 'Cortes.' This shows
that it is a fake, as there is no
Cortes in Cuba.
"No pledge was ever given Gen
eral Gomez that so soon as the
Cuban Army was disbanded the
United States would retire from
the island, and, further, no pledge
was ever given Gomez that as soon
as the machinery for taking vote
of the people was put in operation
the United States would retire from
Cuba and leave it to an in,iepend-
ent government.
mo assurance has ever been
given in Cuba that the number OF
American troops doing garrison
duty on the island would be re-
duced in the near future. Ii is
probable that American troops
will remain in Cuba for several
years.
"The greatest fake of all, and
the worst case OF rot in the bust
ness, is the assurance that the
American Government has offered
to elect General Gomez as the first
president OF the island If the terms
are accepted. Gomez has also
authorized me to say that he never
would accept, nor has he any am
bition IN that direction.
We think it highly desira BILE that |
this interview be published not
only by the English press but by |
every influential German-Ameri-
can paper in the Union.
The Administration is corrupt
to the core and the sooner the peo-
pie are informed OF this fact by
substantial proof, the better it will
be for their interests and the wei
fare ol our country. The President
heeds not our warning against the
pitfall into which the buzzards who
are picking the bones Of his Ad-
ministration are Turing him. With
millions they have already stolen,
and those in sight, they are quite
willing to use his expansion scheme
to feather their own nests. And
it will not matter to them that a
fatal scandal is left on his hands,
after they get the plunder. The
perpetuation oi American princi-
pie and the integrity Of the Repub-
lie are in danger. To add the
Cuban bond steal to the already
precarious record of this Admins
tration we hope will be a death
blow to Mckinley aud the Repub-
Iican PARTY