The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-06
cDDANS Eel
CREST FALLEN
Yankee, They Believe, Hasn't
Treated Them Square.
ON RECIPROCITY DEAL
Progress of Island Influenced
by United States.
ON RECIPROCITY DEAL

lnc Huote IutStlOH o. lHe Nubdh rev.
procity treaty to the house next winter,
there is little belief in Cuba that there
Will be reciprocity treaty between Cuba
and the United States Two years ago.
there was great confidence in Cuba that
the United States intended to deal fairly
with Cuba and keep the bargain the bar
gain known to have been made at the
amendment. Two winters have passed
time of the acceptance of the Plat
since then, and the Cuban reciprocity
treaty has been so successfully pushed
along into the future that now no one IN
Cpba expects it ever to be passed
1t hardly need be added to this that the
Cuban people and the Spanish residents
In Cuba feel that they have been duped,
and that Yankee shrewdness has vistim-
lied them. There is feeling. however.
theat there is still hope for the sugar
industry from the expected removal Of
The European bounties next winter. The
recent shipment of a'cargo of sugar d.
rect from Cuba to England have encour-
agement that with the slight increase
IN price. England may become a con-
siderable purchaser of Cuban sugar.
There is a large quantity of English
and French sugar machinery used in
Cuba and even American engineers and
contractors here say that great deal
Of the machinery and construction ma
terial used by them can be purchased
I'm England better than in the United
States There is. therefore. a good deal
of basis for the idea that g larger and
more profitable trade may spring up be
tween England and the United States in
the near future. There is not likely to be
TRADE where there is not some cordially
and reciprocity in good feeling and the
recent action of the American senate
has done a good deal TO destroy the belief
OF Cubans and Cuban Spaniards that
any really good intention toward them
SIS entertained by American legislators.
! The tourist season just ended brought
an unusually large number Of tourists TO
Cuba Those who returned in the past
winter after an absence Of two or three
years. have been surprised at the great
changes in the direction of making travel
more comfortable Every one anticipates
additional facilities with every coming
year, so that whether trade relations
eventually become friendly with the
United States o.. not, the tourist travel
seems likely to become a great source
Of income to Cuba.
There is also considerable inquiry bg
Americans here for agricultural lands
and a reasonable proportion of the in
ouiries develop into purchases. It might
have been supposed in the north. from
no I'm, h,
by Senator SanguiIIy against the selling
OF Cuban lands to Americans. that an
enormous number of land grabbe1s had
arrived in Cuba and were threatening
10 purchase all the land in sight at
enormous prices. Such a conclusion IS
entirely unfounded. The proposal Of Sen
ator Sanguilly, which he made with such
furious eloquence. met with very cold
response from the Cuban public, who
have always shown themselves quite will
irg to take American money if they
can make a god trade They are quite
as clever as the sharpest Yankee in max
ing trade. and it may safely he said
that few Americans in the last FIVE years
have beaten them in a bargain
The successful administration Of the Gu
ban government by the administration OF
president Palma is matter of comment
by all Americans here. both residents and
travellers. The latter who usually arrive
with the expectation of seeing a relapse
into the former bad sanitary conditions.
SCION begin to express surprise, and usu-
oily end by accepting the assurance Of
eli the American residents here that the
government is as wei conducted now as
during the American occupation. and at
much smaller expense and with very
much less OF buster.
Although the much needed seworing and
pavement construction In the city of Ha-
vana has not begun and seems stiIl 70 b.
far from realization, public Improvements
have been progressing constantly during
the eleven months since the American adj
miuistration departed. 4 portion. less
than onc-half, of the far-famed Prado
Of Havana was thoroughly cleaned duyiag
the late American occupation, it's gravel
walks replaced by cement and grass.
Since the Cuban administration began.
the whole has been completed and the
Paruue Central also improved. changing
gravel walks 20 cement: the whole work
considerably greater than that done ny
the American occupation No bronze
tablets have been erected by the Cuban
government TO celebrate these improve
n,ents and the curious result is that the
bronze tablet erected by the late Ameri-
can administration. Iecitins that the
Prado was .-reconstruido por Leonard
Wood, leads the public 70 suppose that
the entire work was done by that OH
Ger. Many years aSo'a magnificent boule-
ward along the sea front froEl the Punta
westward wos planned by the Spanish
engineers Circumstances prevented tho
Spanish government from carrying out SIS
plans Tor this Gulf Avenue" snd 81 was
left ito be commenced by the American
administration. which made a start by
constructing a few rods OF Ct. beginning
at sthe Puuta. Since the departure Of the
the construction has been con
tiTiued. and the portion built b. the Gu
ban government is already three or four
tIIneS as long as the small portion con-
sItructed by The American administration
The visiting American. however. secs
with much pride the bronze tablet erect
ed by the late Military governor re
citing that this ''Nalecon" was ''coustrui
do por eonard Wool Thus far tn
Cuban administration has adopted med
est deneanor in matters OF this sort and
the Cuhars nave not shown publicly. az
least. thar they see the rIdiculcusnSss Of
the situation
These are two instauces-two OF many.
The Presidential papace formerly the rsE-
itary. governors palace. was thoroughly
cleaned. painted. and decorated during