Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-06-15
Shall Race Hatred
and Unjust Laws
be Supported by
the u. S. Army

I tackS upon white women by members
OF Estenoz' forces
These reports contain one part
of truth and nine parts of lies, and
their purpose is to deceive the public
and to silfully misrepresent the char
acter OF the men fighting under Esti-
noz. There has been only one such
attempted outrage by a follower of
Estinoz, and as soon as the fact was
made known to him. a band of his
soldiers Immediately sought out and
found the offender, and hung him for
failing. to obey orders from general
Headquarters.
The government has made an at
tempt 10 bribe General Yvonet with
an offer Of . consulate aud a large
sum ~ safUney. ~ he would cease his
| demands for the repeal of the Movua
law. and desert Estinoz. but in this
ii has reckoned without its host
The author of the Movua law. Senior
Delgardo Morua, now deceased was
man of color. former senator and
later a member of the cabinet under
Gomez. His two daughters were edu-
Gated to be school teachers in New
York college. but under the opera
tions OF their fathers law they can
not teacn in a public school in Cuba.
During his lifetime, and after he had
| received the price of his treachery to
his race-a cabinet portfolio. when
ever a decent black or colored Cuban
met Movua in the streets of Havana
he turned his back on him. He died
several years ago, it is said OF a
broken heart
A correspondent of Havana paper
who visited Estinoz and Yvonet in
camp, thus describes a visit to them
We continued to cross many farms
in all of which we were halted and
was always careful to answer inde
penden1 non-combatant, when stop
ped. We finally arrived at Cascorro
farm. where the main camp was To-
Gated. having passed large numbers
of Negroes from time to time. We
entered the municipal district oil
Limones. The camp was pitched on
Ciego Hill where it commanded a
good view of the surrounding coun
try. When half way up the hill. was
met by Col. Luna. chief of General
Yvonet's general staff, to whom
was obliged to give in detail the OBJ
| ject of my visit He then conducted
me 10 General Yvonet, passing
through large body of cavalry. Gen
eral Yvonet advanced to meet me and
| introduced me to General Estinoz
How comes it, said Estinoz. that a
blonde such as you and with blue
eyes, TOO. should dare to come to us
when you know that our aim is tc
! kill the whites?' He said this with
! irony and I recalled to him how Napo
| leon had forgiven man who had
made his way to him against all or
ders. and told him was sure he
would do as much. Estinoz laughed
and said that he congratulated me
on being the first newspaper man to
! reach lis camp. He was dressed in
a shirt of marine blue. pair of drill
trousers. hunting boots, and carried
a "A calibre Colts, and belt full OF
cartridges. His costume was set off
with large French sabre which he
said had been given him by French
gentleman In Paris. He had no sign
of rank on his clothes.
"Yvonets shirt was the same as
that of Eestinoz. except that he had
two gold stars on his collar over a
green background: grey cashmere
trousers. yellow cavalry leggings
double-soled yellow shoes and carried
a long machette and a Colts revolver
a Spanish mauser rifle. and was well
provided with cartridges for both
After our conference We sat down to
breakfast which was served by two
women. The menu consisted of white
rice. red beans. steak. pigeons. vege
tables. fried bananas. rum and coffee
Ten OF us sat down at the table"
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