The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-28
ROOT. wICKLIFFE WOOLEY
SAYS AMERICAN CAPITAL
is READY TO BACK INSUR-
RECTION OF BLACKS IN
ISLANDS.

EDITORS Note.-Following is a
digest of an article written by Mr..
Woolley for the August Pearson's
with a view to showing how fore
ign interests control Cuba and
work for annexation, while the
really patriotic Cubans still long
for the freedom for which the
Cuban war for independence was
fought. and for which the United
States undertook the war with
Spain.)
(By Robt. Wickliffe Woolley.
Cuba faces a financial crisis, but
1t is still possible for the United
States to steer her safely over the
shoals and breakers and, after all,
keep the pledge so solemnly given
IL years ago. Will she do it?
No one in Havana who has OBJ
served the course of recent events
believes she will. No one in Wash
ington who is at all familiar with
the intentions of President Taft
and his advisers doubts for an in
slant that within a year the Stars
and Stripes will be unfurled over
MORO and Cabannas castles, never
to be hauled down again.
True, President Gomez has sue
ceeded for the time being in quell-
ing race troubles, but the blacks
are reported to be organizing with
greater diligence than ever before.
1t is generally agreed that when
the time to strike does arrive there
will be plenty of funds to finance
the revolution and that these will
come from the United States.
There are men in Cuba in position
to know whereof they speak who
will tell you the names of certain
capitalists and of certain interests
that are ready to furnish them on
short notice.
Corruption is rampant. In Cuba
the goat is the symbol of graft.
The Spanish word for goat is
"chivo," which word is also the
Cuban slang for corrupt scheme.
For months the papers of Havana
have teemed with cartoons, the
principal figure of which is the
"chivo."
Misgovernment has been the
rule and insurrection has been in
the air from the day that Gomez
was fnaugurated. Why, when the
ships bearing the American troops
sailed out of Havana harbor, i'm
mediately following that event.
bets were freely made in the lead
ing hotels and cafes that they
would be called back by wireless
before arriving in New York!
Prior to the Intervention of
1898 comparatively few citizens of
this country owned any property
whatever in Cuba. Today they lead
the Spaniards.
From the date of the Spanish
evacuation to the present, Cuba
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borrowed capital. Practically all
the railways are owned by British
and Canadians, none of whom re-
side on the islands. In addition ito
her great bonded Indebtedness, all
of which is controlled by Spyer & |
Co. of New York, Cuba owes this
country $6,102,956 for the second
Intervention.
Probably no better summary of
the situation in Cuba today could
be given than that delivered by
Senior Sanguilly, at banquet ten
dered him last February, just af-
ter he had become secretary of
state. In part he said:
Impoverished by wars and cor
porations, losing each day the fer
tile lands which, for lack of asso-
ciation and through necessity, they
have not been able to keep, sur
rounded by very powerful foreign
trs who owe their economic pre-
emfnence to an accumulation of