The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-01
CUBAN OUTLOOK
GROWS DARKER
Uprising in Santiago Province
Which Is Causing Much
Concern in Havana.
NEWS KEPT FROM PUBLIC
INSURREcTIoN GROWING IN ALL
DIRECTIONS.

Havana. Aug. 31.-The situation is far
darker tonight than at any previous time
since the instruction broke out News
of uprising in Santiago province, while
not yet published here, is spreading about
the city and causing the gravest concern.
When Mr.. Sleeper, the American charge
daffaires here. was told the contents OF
the Associated Press Santiago dispatch.
he endeavored to verify it through the
state department, but was told 1t was alb
solutely untrue. Subsequently the dis
patch was verified from private and news
| paper sources. The extent Of the rising inS
Santiago is not known. but IL is the opin-
ion here that the worst calamity Of all To
| the Palma government would be an in
surrection in Eastern Cuba. The Associ-
ated Press was informed tonight by two
| reliable eye-witnesses that Cardenss,
| which hitherto has been considered a per-
| fectly peaceful city. was the scene yes
| terday Of desultOry fighting between po-
| lice and rural guards on the one side
and rowing insurgents on the other.
Only One Peaceful Province.
The only province remaining perfectly
! peaceful in Puerto Principe. Americans
having great cattle interests there are
! apprehensive lest ii, too, become the field
! of tnsurrectiOnary operations
| The Associated Press correspondent at
| Cienfuegos photographed tonight that there
| are 1900 armed insurgents i'm that Vicn-
ity and that all the small towns I'm Santa
| Clara province are controlled by insur-
! gents, who attack and loot trains and
seize the property of foreigners as well
Trinidad. Is surrounded by insurgents.
| and the government appears powerless
| to protect the property Of Americans and
| other foreigners. Railway trains are held
| up at will and passengers searched. The
| Cuban Central railroad has. declined to
| assume responsibility for the safety CT
| passengers or freight.
! Recruiting for government forces is
making good progress here The govern
| ment continues TO make fine hearway
wherever there is open fighting.
Campaign in the Hills.
The troops in the western portion Of
up with Pine Guerrero. and according 10
| the Associated Press correspondent with
! the troops. there is no present likelihood
| of their doing so. the troops might
march for ten years and all the while
Guerrero would still be Just ahead Of them
! in the hills. There are thousands of noun
| tain trails with which the insurgents are
familiar and which lead in all directions.
II Guerrero cared TO harrass the govern
/ ment their troops could be killed off By
I sharpshooters- The government has no
| cavalry in Pinar Del Rio and the only
| real soldiers are the artillerymen. but 80
they are afoot they cannot cope with the
| well mounted veterans on the insurgent
! side. Guerrero does not want TO fight His
| scouts car always be seen at a distance
| from the government line of march. The
! correspondents report more lOOting by
! Guerrero s men.
There are many rumors in circulation as
! to what may happen Sept. 10. unless a
new election is granted.
Instruction Spreading.
To add tc the general apprehension, the
American protestant missionaries Of Ha-
! vana. who are in general charge Of field.
! say that reports from missionaries out
/ side of Havana are practically unanimous
| in stating that the instruction is sweep
/ ing all the country districts in the west
ern half Of the island and that they are
| unable to continue their work and ride
! over the routes in their several districts.
! The increasing gravity of the situation
has revived discussion Of the possibility
! Of Intervention by the United States. La
| Discussion, the sernf-officiaI organ Of fhe
! administration. In an editorial this even
| ing calls upon Cubans to lay down their
! arms and save the republic from the dan
! ger of intervention. The article appeals
| to the patriotism Of the people. depicting
| the results of Intervention. as follows:
| Permanent Intervention would be worse
/ than death. II would be preferable IL the
/ Caribbean should enguh the Pearl OF the
/ Antilles"
Appeal 70 Race Sentiment.
The article further appeals thus to racial
sentiment
| the possibility of intervention Ameri-
| cans hate and despise negroes. Even their
| own negroes, whom they have been in
! contact with for 200 years. are treated like
| dogs, lynched and hardly considered hui
| man. If IL is so with negroes Of their
own land and language. what would hap
| pen to the Cuban negro"
AS to what the whites might expect I'M
der American intervention the article
says:
"Our courteous comrades in the public
departments will be superseded by men
/ of the type of Bliss General Tasker II
! Bliss. who. when administrator Of GUS
| toms asked nobody to be seated I'm his
office and who forced the use Of the Eng
| lish language Also instead of our de-
! liberate and refined judges we should have
/ Judge Pitchers (alluding TO Captain Will
liam l.. Pitcher of the Eighth United
| States infantry, who in 1899. was police
magistrate and supervisor of police OF
Havana) with their ten dollars or ten
! days.
Cause for Alarm.
Furthermore we shall have with us
| beer drinking American officers with
| clanking spurs masters of all. captivat-
| ing our adorable virgins. That this may
occur. Cubans fight against Cubans. max
/ ing room that Finlanders. Germans,
| Americans. Spaniards may come and en-
! JOY the fecundity of our soil and air. the
| murmuring OF our rivers. the beauty OF
/ our moonlit nights, the kiss Of sea
and even the love Of our women. all be-
cause it is said the elections were not
! fair. Is there no other remedy except
| placing our neckS under the yoke Of In
| Gle Sam? This war can have no other
/ end but intervention"
| 'SurrenderS in small numbers are re-
ported from various places. 1.-THE largest
/ being at SVenero. on the boundary lines Of
/ Matanzas and Santa Clara. where twenty
/ five men forsook the insurgent cause.
There is no apprehension of an upris-
1 ing in the city Of Havana, although the
! city contains a great many insurgents
\ Many foreigners are registering them
selves at their consulates.
/ President Palma was asked tonight by
\ the Associated Press to give his view OF
1 the present situation and whether he be-
! lieved there was possibility OF arrang-
/ ing a place with the insurgents in man
ner acceptable to the government He