The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-09-14
DISASTER NOW IN C(JBA
sborers Beginning tOLeave
the Island.
IMPLICATIONS LOOM
,,,a Is Ripe for Intervention
Prominent Business Man Declares
colo Hone for Peace Is in the
rrited states and President
Roosevelt.

Havana Cuba, Sept. 6.-Loyal
.,anle of Rodas, in Santa Clara
.0rince .0r are not entirely displeased
r,,b T tbe revolution, says a special
,,ble despatch to the Herald, New
v,rt Cleto Collado, a rebel chief,
-. compelled the butchers of that
.'rn m TO sell to everybody meat at
,igbt and ten cents pound.
/ movement, peaceful but omi-
,os was begun in Cuba which may
,oon render the fruits of victory of
Mtle value to the force in the field.
I,borers are leaving the country.
Without them the industries of the
.rand and its agriculture must per-
3d.
learned that fully thousand of
hpse immigrants are preparing to
m hack home. This report was prac-
|tcsuv confirmed at the Office of
hp Hamburg-American line, whose
ceamship San Juan will carry near
II three hundred of these men to Co
NINA. 1t is said that passages have
tsan sold to many others and that
he outgoing ships would be filled to
heir utmost capacity for some time.
This is a very serious blow to the
wOsperity of the island.
Sugar Crop in Danger.
Without this labor the sugar
vaners can do little. They are very
uue and 1t is no eXaggeration to
yv that men versed in finance are
BEGINNING to fear a panic. l am told
4 that interest has risen to twenty per
cent. now. No one will lend money
even on the best security. This puts
4 lie planters in a very bad way. 1t
Usually takes ten per cent. of the ex-
Nted sugar crop in borrowed money
i 10 harvest It. This money is obtained
Il this season of the year usually
+ TithOut difficulty. Now | am told not
/ planter can get a cent. 1t was eX-
Hted that the value of the crop
Vould amount to about $90,000,000.
IBIS would mean a needed advance
$4,000, ,O00, and the foremost bus
hess man Of Cuba told me it would
y impossible to get loan of
10000.
Peace would check the exodus of
lbor and save to 1,250,000 people
100000 which the harvesting of
sugar crop annually puts in cir
iation among them for labor, ma
iial and supplies expended in the
|.ting and manufacture of the sea-
nS output,
Time for Intervention.
Ruin IS fast coming" continued
Us business man, unless some.
rlg be quickly done. No one can
anything but the United States.
1t should act by moral interven-
on The situation does not call for
landing Of troops. Senor Palma
Falol put down the revolution nor
me rebels win. Word sent to the
mat Theodore Roosevelt had
aefed lighting to cease and the re-
10 lay down their arms would
lnem scampering home. They
wa be satisfied if told there
Au De square deal in the mat
o the election and official posi-
~ Tor that is all the row is
but.
look to see something of the
' uohe as soon as Mr.. Root re-
y nome. Mr.. Roosevelt should
zone it before now. He inter-
" oetWeen the Russians and ia
-'F' between Honduras and
-'eliala and in Colombia to form
ranamanian Republic. Of how
y greater Importance to the
su states is Cuba? Mr.. Root
plan' without discrediting any
: le has said of the friendly in
'1,Oh OF the United States on
aip to the suspicious South
,r1 ivan republics, of finally annex
.aoa 70 The United States, at the
'leSt of her own neonle "