The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-05-20

eu aDouG onC>IlakI SuU<AnU
are Working up Sentiment for An
nexation.
Washington. d. c., May 15-There
Is general feeling among the men,
bers OF the House of Representatives
that II will not be long before the
United States will again be Obliged
to intervene in Cuban affairs. and
that II this takes place the Stars and
Stripes will stay put"
According to information received
by many members the trouble in Gu
ba Is being fomented by American
interests on the island. 1t was hint
ed that the Sugar Trust is back OF
the movement to secure annexation.
It was explained that many of the
smaller sugar plantations are now
owned by Americans; that the labor
employed by the Americans is we'll
satisfied, but that the large sugar
plantations owned by the Spanish
families and which have passed from
one generation to another, are work
ed under the peon system. The
fact that the laborers On the Ameri-
can-owned sugar plantations have
money to spend and are given priv
ileges denied the poems on other plan
tations has caused much trouble and
is largely responsible for the demand
for the return of American authority
to the island.
About one-half of the people In
Cuba, more especially the better ele-
ment, to say nothing of the Amer
leans who have millions of dollars
invested there, are working upon SEN
timent for annexation and it is this,
the report says, that Is causing the
Cuban Government officials to take
little heed about meeting their f1nan-
cial obligations, for they have been
given to understand that if the Unit
ed States intervenes again it means
that the island will remain American
territory and that all the debts con-
traeted by the Cuban Government
will be paid by Uncle Sam. The pre-
diction is being made in the island
that the United States will be back
in Cuba within a year, and to stay
this time.
Former Governor of Cuba Magoon
was a visitor at the Capitol to-day.
When asked for his opinion as to the
probability of early Intervention by
the United States in Cuba, and our
re-occupation of the island, he hesi-
tated for a few moments, and was on
| the point of expressing an opinion
when he checked himself and said:
''I do not think it would be proper
| for me to discuss the subject at this
| time"
He showed no surprise, however
| when told of the reported serious
condition of public affairs in the Re.
public.
Senator Curtis, member of the
Cuban relations, and who has always
taken a deep interest in affairs in the
island, said to-day that information
printed in the newspapers within the
last few days indicates that thing:
are not running smoothly in Cuba
There is feeling among members o.
the Senate, he added, that unles:
there Is change in political condi
tions in Cuba the United States woult
be obligated to again step in ant
'straighten out matters" as he ex
pressed it. Governmental affairs il
Cuba have not been conducted in sucl
a manner as to please the Unitet
States, and there is a growing be
lief that Intervention on our part cal
not be withheld much longer" h
concluded.
Senator Curtis declined to expires
himself more freely on the subject
but on equally good authority it ma
: be said that the assertion that tn
United States Government is maxim
preparations to again occupy Cuba
absolutely correct.