River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-28

them to the honest financier to safely
invest. The bank of Holland is the old
wooden stocking, and money never
comes out of the stocking unless there
is string to it, and the. string is the
heart-string of an honest people, that
will stand no trifiing. If dishonest
financier came to Holland from any
other country, and did any of his dirty
work, the women of Holland, who ham
die the funds, would give MIN such a
hazing that he would never open his
three-card monte layout in any other
country. 1t is a country where you get
the right change back, and the cows
give 18-carat milk, and the hens have
not learned to lay small, cold storage
eggs. 1t is the country for me, if the
women would wear corsets, and not be
the same size all the way down, so that
if you Rugged a girl you wouldn't
make dent in her that would not
come out until she got her breath.
And we left such a country and such
a people to come here to Cuba, where
the population now comprises the
meanest features of the desperate and
wicked Spaniards, beaten at their own
game of loot, the thickness of the ma
tive Cuban, flushed with pride because
his big American brother helped him
to drive away the Spaniard that he
could never have gotten rid of alone,
and with no respect for the American
who helped, and only meets him re-
spectfully because he is afraid of be-
ing thrown into the ocean if he is i'm
pudent, and the worst class of Yankee
grafters and highway robbers that
have ever been allowed to stray away
from the land of the free. That is
what Cuba is to-day.
Soulless Yankee corporations have
got hold of most of the branches of
business that there is any money in,
and the things that do not pay and
never can be made to pay are for sale
to tenderfeet. The Cuban hates the
Yankee, the Yankee hates the Cuban,
and the Spaniard hates both, and both
hate him. In Havana your hotel,
owned by a Cuban, run by a Yankee,
with a Spanish or Portuguese cashier,
will take all the money you bring into
it for a bed at night, and hold your
baggage till you can cable for money
to buy breakfast.
1t is ''free country" of course, run
by men who will fly high as long as
they can borrow money for some one
else to pay, after they are dead, but
within ten years the taxes will eat the
people so they will be head over heels
in debt to the Yankee and the Span
lard, the German and the Englishman,
the Frenchman and the Italian, and
some day warships will sail into Ha-
vana harbor, over the submerged bones
Of the Maine" and there will be
fight for juicy mOrsels of the Cuban
dead horse, by the cOngregated buz-
yards of strange navies, or perhaps
they will shake dice for the carcass,
and by carefully loading the dice saw
the whole thing off onto Uncle Sam,
and make him pay the debts of the de-
ceased republic, and act as administra-
tor for the benefit of the children of
the sawed off republic, whose only as
set now is climate that feels good, but
contains germs of all diseases, and
tobacco that smells good when it is in
confagration under your nose, and
does not kill instantly if it is pasted up
in Wisconsin wrapper that is the
pure goods. If tobacco ever ceases to
be fad with the rich consumer of SO
cent cigars, and beet sugar is found
to contain no first aid to Bright's dis
ease, Cuba will amount to about as
much as Dry Tortugas, which has