Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-03-09
SAYS CUBANS
WILL REVOLT.
TenneSSeean JHSt From Island
Predicts Trouble
TO BEGIN WITH ELECTION DAY
On the Other Hand General Wilson
Declares That Islanders Are
Satisfied and Serene.

A Nashville dispatch says: Colonel
Frank NJ. Gardenshire, a prominent
citizen of Chattanooga, we'll known
over the state, has just returned from
a trip to Havana. Gardenshire, in an
interview, predicts an uprising on the
day OF the Havana municipal election
this month. He says:
"In my opinion there will be serious
trouble in Havana on the day of cleo
ton. l have several personal friends
IN Havana, and this seems to be the
impression among them.
According to late regulation, pro-
mulgated by General Wood and other
authorities, 60 per cent of the voters
will be DISTINGUISHED. Under the re-
cent order the qualifications of a voter
were that he must be able to read and
write and own $3.50 worth of property.
This rule was advocated by the Span
iards and the more intelligent classes
In Havana. The regulation almost
shuts out the average run of natives,
and many of them declare that if they
are not permitted to vote in the cleo
ton there will be some throat cutting
on election day.
1.-THE people from the outside coun-
try are now moving into Havana, and
all want offices. Some of them are
fighting for places on the police force,
while there arc Just twelve candidates
in the race for mayor.
1.-The natives seem to hate our SOL
diers worse than the Spaniards, but
the impression prevails among the
officials at Havana that The Cubans
would in engage in rows among them
selves the minute the troops are with
drawn. In fact, so far as could see,
the gardening and farm work is being
done by Cinnamon"
SAYS CCDANs ARE SATISFIED.
Generel James II. Wilson, military
governor of the department of Matan-
zas-Santa Clara, in the course Of an in
terview regarding Cuban affairs, said
TO the correspondent of the Associated
Press, now in Matanzas:
Trouble is absolutely out Of the
question. The future depends large
ly upon agricultural prosperity, and
where work is plentiful, wages are
good and country is prosperous, no
sensible man wishes to alter condi-
tions. II sugar goes TO the United
States free or nearly so, there will be
such an influx of capital and of immi-
grafton ms would render Cuba ere long
one of the richest and most prosperous
countries in the world.
1.-The cattle industry yields enor-
nous profits, particularly as respects
working cattle, which can never be re-
placed by mules, because the peculiar
conditions are better adapted to cat
tie. Coffee, timber and fruit also Of
fer great inducements to capitalists,
and tobacco planting yields almost
immediate returns.
II don't consider that the immediate
future Of Cuba depends chiefly upon
schools, roadmaking, improved santa
ton or judiciary reform, although, OF
course, these things are Of very great
importance. The best thing the
United States can do for Cuba and
the Cubans is to give every opportu-
nifty for improving the value of the
land by putting it to the best uses. In
this way capital could do an immense
amount of good here, as we'll as get
large returns. l suggest supplying
cattle for working purposes on a time
basis, accepting regular rates of inter
est, which should be about per cent
per month. Cattle can be landed here
at cost Of $40 yoke, which, once
here, would bring more than $50.
Large numbers of working cattle
are required by reliable and hard
working men who are anxious to obtain
them. We're l man of twenty-five,
with energy and some capital, l should
certainly look upon Cuba as one OF
the best places to accumulate wealth. I"