The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-06
some CUBAN DUDES
Rough Rider Rhodes on the
Rich White People of Cuba.
HONOR AND FlNGeR-NAlLS
Observation-Disclosures of Their
Capacity for SeIf-GoVernment.

las ilseu any length % time n ts1sS VIII
derful climate where Il Is never cold
| enough 70 require coat for more s.-aa
Ie~ days In the year. anu where sisey
ara o1ly used for appearance. where
Planting Is constantly going on. II soNads
almost Ike fairy t4lc 70 read that tha
ice in she northern rivers : breaking up
and navigation resumed. - see advertise
meats in the papers sailing attention 20
spring ovcrcoSts. aid 20 read In the eoan-
try papers that Farmer Johnson IS
through planting corn: that oats are up
and looking nicely. and that grass viii
soon furnish fun bite. Seeming distant
and unreal 10 Americans Il can be tsa<sllf
understood that Cubans. who ali Tier
lives have seen the grass green and SUE
culent al the year; corn "a ali stages o.
growth from being Dropped Ia the furrow
to roasting ear ana ripe Tor the harvest.
and who never saw ice except mauuSao-
tured. cannot comprehend such things.
They think il gets cold here. and one man
gravely assured NE that there Was a.
ways SIX months of T. IL is true that
they Will go around shaking as with al
agus when Il Il only sufficiently co... 10
make a northern man think Of his c a
hays tried 10 get them % unders a al
what . winter really Is. but can Only
convince them that II Elust Dc very -
1t IS impossible 10 describe snow 20 tho
who have never been north SO they viii
understand A. 1 explained 1t 10 one i.51
sufficiently clear that ne asked me II iS
ala not Kill all The grass and grown
crops. and when l explained that E5a-s
did not grow for six mouths Ia the ) a..
he told me he didn't want TO see such =
country and didn't see how the poop o
lived there
There are two classes OF white Cubaus
ana two Of negr5es-the black and tho
muiattO The muiatto considers himself
above the real negro and rescnts any
thing approaching cIoality. They all ob-
ject 10 being called negroes and uso
amcng themselves word meaning DARK
oerson."
The late census OF the Island gives ih f
population Ok negroes and muattOes "a
below the popular estimate. In the An,
lean sense the word applies 10 any PES
having the slightest trace of blood IN b.
veins. In this sense the census Is de-
. cidedly wrong. as at least ono-half Of tho
population show African blood. The CT
bans themselves recognize anyone Vita
less than One-eighth as white and q =
this meaning IA the census. IL Is vary
doubtful IL General Sanger himself knows
this, FOR while ne was the head OF ths
department. the entire work vas done by
Cubans and the classification was made
as customary here. General Sanger was
never known 20 90 anything correctly
and II never entered his head that 10
lh lDt4k "a fsr t4.f d a t-Fr
lieutenant colonel in the regular army.
but at the breaking Up Of the war was
made a brigadier general u volunteers
and commanded the troops at Matanzas
for several months The position gave
him the big head and The only thing no
did vas 10 ride around with his stan Of
iicers. followed by half dozen orderiies.
10 whom be was very fond Of issuing
commands in a voice that could be heard
several blocks away. Even the Cubans
sneered at him while he was the laugh
Ing stock Of his army and the American
cubsns. lie has been mustered out a. a
volunteer aad now ranks only a. lieuten-
ant colonel
The white cubans are divided into two
distinct classes. and before the war wers
the extremes Of rich and poor. TEs r.ch
were very "dudy." tosk good care u
their person and clothing. The bath room
Is always IN use, several times daily x
they have occasion - be out In tho aan.
They wear thair finger nails lunK. IRE
Quenly an inch. 10 show that they 81
not work They are very Jealous % their
so-cailed honor and imagine that lie
Whole weird reyolves around thsm Whtt
they mean rs the word honor no Am<,-
lean has ever yet bern able 70 nrd out.
AZ they % act kn3w the meaning u b I
esty and are all liars. They - not hss3
tate at any fabrication % faiBehsods %
gain their ends. There was 10 puifshA
rneut undsT Spanish AZ Tor perjury ans
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Or interest HAD Wsyier cone. O. rstss
hia efforts on these people he ~Dsla hays
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