The Calumet news., 1912-07-22
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MANY LIVES
Negro Rebellion in Cuba Has Kept
Much American Capital Idle

York Herald from Santiago, Cuba.
says: While more than 500, ,OO0,VO0 OF
American capital lay almost totally !
inactive in a single province of that
island. American investors and for
cigners and native Cubans alike |
waited more than two weeks for the |
fulhllmcnt of the governments prom |
isc that the death Of the Negro rebel
chief. lvonet. would be accomplished |
within a few hours"
The promise was kept Thursday |
but up to that time government liz |
stability. business Generalization and
a complete realization of the absence of
safety 10 life in the country were pro-
nounccd. in spite of the fact that the
death of AVaristc Estenoz brought
forth from the Cuban government thf
anal announcement that the most re-
cent Negro uprising had been quashed
entirely.
The "Black Fox" in the province
ur Orlente. on at least two occasions
marched his entire army straight
through the lines of his ptTsuers ana
escaped even after the United States
government had been notified officially
Ly representatives of the Gomez ad-
minstration that the last hope of the
rebel chief had been blasted and that
the government forces that surrounded
him could not fail of success.
No one who watched the progress
of the government warfare against the
nsurrectionists could look with anS
degree of certainty for the end OF the
present uprising, Americans who have
lived in the hills Of Oricnte province,
mainly the district close to Santiago,
have told ne they were certain that
! Estenozs army. which l personally
| know numbers more than 500 men
who were in the field during the great
or part cf the time that Spain was
waging her 20 years war against the
inhabitants of her last new world pos
session.
False Reports.
When that war was In progress the
lnsurrectionists were not well eguip-
ped 1t has been falsely represented
hy the Cuban government, and Off
cial reports have been sent To Wash
inpton by American vestigators. tha;
Norets men were not equipped with
ammunition, that they were starving
and without clothes. | know this in-
formation TO be untrue.
Three days after the body OF Es-
tenoz was buried in a cemetery just
outside this city, at a time when Gu
ban troops were being withdrawn from
the field and the Gomez administration
was making every effort to confirm
its previously created impression al
Washington that the revolt not only
had tottercd but actually had fallen
a. Negroes all Of them armed with
rifles as good as any carried by the
Cuban soldiers. marched oct of Santa
go nj night and went TO jcin lvoncts
forces weak attempt was made oy
detachment Of government troops t.
overtake this mob Of unarmed Ne
sroes." as the government officers call.
ed them but 1t failed.
Steal Government Blind.
Everyone of these mon kept steadily
on the march until they joiaed tho
rebel army. Cuban officers denied to
me that the guns of the rebel re-
cruits had beer stolen piece by piece
from Cuban troops who were attack
ed while doing guard duty. J know
dat ammunition belts worn by many
uf them are identical with those worn
10y the government soldiers. And ev-
cry belt when the band left Santiago
was nlcd with cartridges.
The Uuited states has been told
that there is no revolution n Cuba
rhe Gomez administration had strNen
as valiantly as possible to prove that
the trouble in Cuba amounts to moth
ing more than an insignificant race
war. and that it is problem which
Cuba is fully capable of handling.
There was no race war In Cuba un-
til the Cuban government misrepre
scented the underlying cause for the
revolt. Then race hatred was Ell
rendered and now is growing daily
Americans who have lived here since
the Spanish American war and ma
. tives not affiliated with the govern
ment are unanimous i'm the opinion
that In. this situation lies the mosl
dreary aspect of the future of the is
land as country capable of sclf-gov-
ernment.
Dispatches Censored.
From the beginning of the revolt
: government officers have been careful
To permit to go out of Cuba only re
. ports favorable to the administration
In all the official reports of the bat
ties that have been fought in th'
hills against the rebels not more thar
three cuban soldiers have been ad
| been killed. Less than twice tina
number of government troops hav'
been reported as injured. While M
| difficulty was encountered i'm sendins
out tho reports of Estenoz's death tina
subsequently, proved TO be untrue. TN
nrst authentic news Of the death o
the rebel chief. obtained by the Heral
CORE spondont even before message
were sent To President Gomez. wa
held up and not permitted to pass on
Of Cubs until the following day.
II End Is Not Vet.
H have talked with many men who's