The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-18

mum, and the necessity of giving to the
family Of the dead hero a sufficient
amount of money to keep them from
want for the remainder of their lives.
This is one reason why the people, who
are working so earnestly to secure
fund for Rear Admiral Schley are likely
to fail.
"Cuba for the Cubans Is good enough
for me- This statement was made to
a reporter of a Washington newspaper
by H. j. Ornsby, of Wisconsin. Mr..
Ormsby was former
ly real estate | uba good
broker and banker for Cuhans
State. He had just returned from
Havana, where he had spent
the past five months as a special agent
for the war department in the custom
office at that port. Mr.. Ormsby en-
tertains anything but an exalted idea of
the present conditions or the future pos
sibilities and outlook on the island of
Cuba. Havana he describes as anything
but an inviting resort for the man Of
business; the sanitary conditions, while
they have have been improved under the
American occupancy, are bad; the life is
200 years behind the times, and that there
is yellow fever to an alarming extent he
says, is notorious In Havana though the
facts are not allowed to get out.
''In the months of October. November
and December of last year he said
numbers of good Americans died there
In January and February the number
of deaths was not large. but the fever is
there, and my opinion As that it cannot
be eradicated. The reports of the ac-
tual deaths from yellow fever are not
allowed to go out.
"The Cubans are uneasy and jealous.
They hate the Americans much worse
than they do the Spanish, and while
there is no demonstration outside of ugly
looks and talk, the sentiment is very
apparent and strong. 1 do not see how
1t will be possible to overcome the feel
ing, for the insurgents proper feel that it
is their right to govern the island, and
they resent bitterly the presence Of
Americans. The better class of the
Cubans try to curry favor with the army
people and the officials. but the same
feeling really exists among them
There are two classes of the Cubans
One is that made up Of the insurgents
who were out in the woods and fighting
while the insurrection was going on.
These readily admit that they could not
have got rid of the Spanish If it had not
been for the American interference, but
they say that the United States came in
there for the cause of humanity, not to
take the island. and that the Cubans
are entitled to the island now The other
| class is made up of the Cubans who left
the island when the insurrection broke
out and did not return to 1t until peace
was declared. These are the more wealthy
of the <Cubans, and they are anxious now
to control the government of the island
But the old Cuban insurgents resent this.
| too, and say that this is not the class
| TO whom properly belong the spoils or
| the offices.
1.-The existing opinion in Havana Is
| that Gen. Wood, who Is so very popular
with all the merchants and the army peo-
! pie, and has made a magnificent gov
| ernor, will vacate the island within the
next year, after having formed some sort
| of a government. There is sure to be
| trouble.
'"The spirit of jealousy that now ex-
| lists against the Americans will be even
stronger against the class of wealthy
| the insurrection and
| jealous or the to whom belong, the
Americans others say, none of
AciiUaiiS' the credit for rid
Ing the island of the Span
| iards. Interminable strife will be
the outcome From my observation very
! little American money is going into Cuba.
n.
lsh money is going into the railroads of
the cities and the country but not to
| the extent that people think. The bust
ness of the country is done by the Span
iards. They have the money and the
credit, and are buying their goods from
| French, German and English houses The
| American drummers that go to the island
/ do not do much business, except in the
| way of machinery, farm supplies and
| hardware. The tariff Is against Ameri-
| can goods, and In the weights Is In favor
of England, Ireland or France. 1t Is a
mistake to say that the Spanish mer-
chants there have not got credit. They
| have ample. They have never failed, even
| during the insurrection, and are now
able to do an enormous business.
1.-The collections from imports at the
| port of Havana are, in the rough some
thing like $1,0O0,O00 a month, and a great
/ part of that is being spent In the i'm
! provement of the city. The consequence
is that, compared with what it was when
| Americans first occupied the town, the
| conditions there are splendid, but they
| are far from good.
''The Cuban newspapers are opposed to
the Americans, and even when we ar
| rested twelve of the inspectors of the
customs, all Cubans, who had been sys-
| tematically stealing, the Americans were
| denounced, and the statement was openly
| made by the newspapers that this steal
ing had been going on for hundreds Of
! years. and that it was more or less a
right Of the Cubans.
1.-THE affairs of the offices are well ad-
ministered by Maj. Tasker H Bliss, with
his collectors, J. j. Rafferty,, of South
Dakota; A. w. Gumear, of Nebraska,
and Morgan Shuster, of Washington
The Nicaraguan bill is dead for this