The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-14
PECk'S BAD BOY ABROAD

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time, and never take my recreation ex-
cept churnlng and rocking babies, and
yet never have to call a doctor, be-
cause there are no doctors except veteri-
nary surgeons, who care for dogs and
cattle, ssisB n ~ s 4s9 5i;555,
1'he people We met In Holland wear
wooden shoes to teach them patience
and humility. with wooden shoes no
frenzied flnancler OF Holland will ever
travel the fast road of speculation, slip,
on bucket shop banana peel, and fall
on the innocent bystaHder who has
coughed up his saving aih given then,
to the honest financier to safely In
vest The bank of Holland is the old
WOODEN stocking, and money never comes
out OF tho stocking unless there is u
string to 1t, and the string in the heart
string to 1t, and the string is the heart
no trifling. II dishonest financler
came to Holland from any other country,
md did any OF his dirty work, the women
OF Holland, who handle tho funds, would
give him such q hazing that he would
never open his three-card monte layout
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. IT Is the country for
mo, II the women would wear corsets. and
not be the same size all the Wny down,
SO that II you Rugged a CIR. you wouldn't
make d dent in hcr that would not come
out until she got her breath.
And we left such country and such
n people to come here to Cuba, where
the population now comprises the mean :
est features Of tho desperate and wicked
spaniarls. beaten at their own game
or loot, the thickness OF the native Gu
ban, flushed with pride because his big
American brother helped him 70 drive
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have gotten rid OF alone. and with no
respect for tho American who helped
and only meets him respectively because
he Is afraid OF being thrown into the
ocean IL he Is impudent, and the worst
class OF Yankee grnftcrs and highway
robbers that have ever been allowed to
stray away from tho land OF the free
That is what Cuba Is to-day.
Soulless Yankee corporations have got
hold OF most OF tho 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 ttenderfeet
The Cuban hates THO Yankee. the Yankee
hates the Cuban, and the Spaniard hates
both, and both hate him.. IN Havana
your hotel owned by q. Cuban, run by
Yankee with a Spanish or Portuguese
cashier, will take all the money you bring
into 1t Nor a bed at night. and hold
your baggage til you can cable for
money to buy breakfast.
1t IS "a free country Of course, run
by men who will fly high as long aa
they can borrow money from some one
else to pay after they are dead. but
within ten years the taxes will eat tho
people SO they Will be head over heels
in debt to the Yankee and the Spanlard.
the German and the Englishman, tho
Frenchman and the italian. and some ono
days warships will sail into Havana
harbor. over the submerged bones OF the
MAINE and there will be q fight for
juicy morsels of the Cuban dead horse.
By the sconEregated buzzards Sof strange
navies. or perhaps they will shake dice
for the ca rcass. and by carefully loading
the dice saw the whole thing Oft onto
Uncle Sam. and make him pay the debts
OF the deceased republic. and act as adj
ministrator for the benefit Of the children
OF the sawed OF republic. whose only
asset now Is climate that feels good, bu!
contains germs Of all diseases. and to-
bacco that smells good when It is In
conflngrat ion under your nose. and does
not XIII Instantly II 1t is pasted up In a
wisconsin wrapper that is the pure goods.
II toba eco ever ceases to BIO fad with
the rich consumer OF b0-cent cigars. and
beet sugar is found to contain no first
aid to Bright's disease, Cuba will amount
Ito about ds much as Dry qrtugas, which