New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
DISTRESS IN CUBA.
GRAPHIC STORY OF BUSINESS De
PRESTON TOLD By CHARLES
NJ PEPPER.
NJ. PEPPER
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IRY TELEGRAPH 70 THE TRIBUNE
Washington J,;ns 2s-In an article written for
THE Evening Etar" Charles NJ Pepper, 'ie "an
known newspaper correspondent, VINO mas sP
the greater part of four or five years past II N'
draws graphic picture of the distressing cohol
,ions which tha failure of Congress follow Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recommendations will continue
for practically another year in the new repuohc'
Mr.. Pepper
As to the real conditions they can only be De story
meets with sneers and mockery. II IS one v. Wiz h
the people of the United States can appreGia ee
cause they through it in 1884 ana supsequore ~
years The gener<l eonditions IN Gupa Gr Sebrs
P0hl or in West Virginia in the panic 1894 with
the tendency as bad as they oeSa. talitV ~,
regardess of whether the United States is in any
way responsible for what is happening f OF NV ari
reciprocity than would have Corea or hamscna59haEs a.
aIFev TnS pe o Sugar s an How genuine
who wants to know can determins oy dss fraTeI
Of Havana know good many OF aa5t thess pf pnf the
0ns and ID it aa nGt to satisfy me that
thousand hands Ordinarily are employ%sd % hSt panters
instead of painting dark picture ar: dong o. goTnew Te
best tighten the shadows Ihey haTS th 20 Situation
as to their indivd lal estates the less eaahGe skeS
planter who still has equity in one ne, OF ,16S the
greatest plantations of Havana Province now aeraI
np bnnred es at aad wSr he replied ana il
np9 OF bg my se1era h direct
answer In good times his plantation emR1pss Ehpss
years he has had between nine hundred lo ana 40 vs
nd a. wo fdr 4 SRI
perintendent of the plantation Hoy biIa Ir One
hanrsd hand you and On @ e Replied bo
And if Mr.. = gets money IN ort Ns% "Perhaps
hve hundred or six hundred, but if he d0ssn We
won't have more than ,iH 5hree nancfe0
Probably the average OF hands who can n6 "9rs Te
SnSred Si sH 4t or six Hundred while ordinarily there
MSgd be one ca 5h5ezaRa Se are d by taxing agr
ural State of the Union and hgurins II oui- a.inn
that It IS judgment formed from acauaintanessI
ship With many ma ber 9T 6IsnFaiions Tne anu
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.
As to the general financial situation, brief
statement viii tell as much as "a cat fstaGgvs Hvsna 8I banks
failures of business houses before night Tbs
f caba6 manager Of the mercan5s 4sIs
SusineSs eSs aI Then he told me report from his
nbsr Of ama an farms going out Of BUSINESS
only this S6o an AmsTieaa A sIs
port he ss Sad aaded: you may look for
for rhse the partner sf f IN big machn
general supply house waved his hand signifcanRtly R
fo row hard eT Dainh me BUT got his check
for what he owes US and cashed it this morning;
There is is no business for him
heard that morning in the bank. He is one Of the
leading Spanish merchants OF Havana, appar-
eaged he to did e not the @
IN sin simply paid hs a e af sp thTt There
is intense patriotism among the Spanish .sa neso
a fheg St ns Would dsgraoe them all So they
will help another as long as they can, and tne
he series Of Ts Tea Would
ohronicled in any American commercial city
in these circumstances. They do not hold cred
tors meetings publicly nothing Is ot syen n re
pickings. But Havana business houses are under
agrcultural conditions and the general loss Of
trade. Any one who knows Havana nsaKers sar ann @
learn all he wants to know, and more than he
would wish to know about the existing depression;
and tell everybody who passes by that II Is ths or
esed sa5 % tn c ghGh dG d i in m
to say on the Havana commercial crisis. During the
ass Ts SO any instances Of and so
much capacity for endurance that my own guess
how 1t would be touching the tender subject Of
Ihrough without the United States having aided
her the prestige and influence OF TINS countrE WI M
future Cuban policy Immensely increased This is
said with a hat the OF anS Wisdom Which has
marked the Congress Of the United states. .,,.o
the roots reach deeply. Naturally in Cuba there
is not the same cynical calmness That seems 10
pPoaperity pPos W the United states has nothing but
chalice of bitterness TO Offer Cuba. something OF
bitter feeling may be looked for among the people
of the island
Within the last day two l have met good
MANY public men who were sorry for Cuba but
who wanted to know what difference II would
make hundred years from now. PROBABLY nome
but il may make a good zeal OF clIerehce d nun
dred days from now.
CUBANS THINK PLEDGE WAS BROKEN.
To the Cuban Government and the Cuban people
the reasons explanations and apologies Tor the
American Congress adjourning without granting
Simply know the hard fact that it is going to ad-
journ without action.
II reopens q controverted point 10 speak of
rectprocfty as pledged, but to the Cuban under
standing II pledged and the course they take
naturally will be governed by the belief. As mite
Of individual testimony that point, 1t would be
we'll for some American public men to refresh
their memories by about fifteen months, ana to
recall the conditions in Cuba and the circumstances
under which the Platt amendment was appended
adjournment of the American Congress without
action on Cuba, Il will be found to be almost the
universal opinion in the island that ali this Is
Da IF of settled policy to force annexation through
the part Of the American people that this is not
so Will not change the Cuban belief. at least for
Those who believe that the irritating Cuban oues-
ton is the more quickly disposed OF by forcing
annexation, may find comfort in the view of a
large American property owner In Havana He was
there In Spanish times and his holdings are city
real estate, that he is not one OF the class who
have gone in to buy sugar lands. In a mild way he
has been sympathetic toward the CUBAN asp1ra-
said but we've got Cuba into the corner where
she'll have to ask for annexation. / wish ft could
have come in a decent way; but since 1t had to
come, maybe it is just as well TO crowd them !